Into The Deep

Studying Habitats

Grade 3

WebQuest By: Devon Simpson

The Challenge:

Your submarine has just crashed to the ocean floor. While down there, you and the other marine biologists thought you would explore.

As a group, you decide to use your time to discover information about the marine habitat. As an assigned group of two or three marine biologists, you will choose one animal from the ocean to research.

• Each person in the group needs a different job, either researcher (student in charge of researching and finding information on the internet), recorder (student will record information and interesting facts into science journal and/or Task Sheet), and if there are three people a facilitator (student will be the leader of the group, may ask teacher questions, gather materials).
• As a group, you first must fill out an information sheet about your animal. Click here to print it.
• Choose an animal to research from the ocean. Some examples of animals that you can choose are:

Crabs, Sharks, Turtles, Whales …

• Record the name of the animal that you are going to be recording onto your information sheet.
• Using the resources below answer as many of the questions on your information sheet as you can. This is a great chance to learn some interesting facts about your chosen animal.
• Now it is time to do something fun with this information you have found. Create a Hyper Studio presentation on the information you discovered. This presentation must include a title page, a picture, and as many of the facts from the information sheet as you can. Once you have the pages we will help you put them together into a show. Try to make this as cool looking as you can so we can share them with the other marine biologists.

The Journey:

To Find Information On Your Animal Explore These Sites:

Site	URL
Sea World	http://www.seaworld.org/
All About Nature	http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/fish/printouts/
Animals of the Sea	http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/animals1.html
Ocean Animals	http://www.nwoca.org/~hol_www/OceanAnimals.html

For Even More Information, Use These Key Words in Search Engines such as

http://www.yahoo.com/

http://ask.com/

http://www.google.com

KEY WORDS: Ocean Animals Marine Animals Your Animal’s Name

Give me feedback! ~ Devon.Simpson@uvm.edu