Try the Following Activities from the Teacher At Sea book featuring Mr

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Try the Following Activities from the Teacher At Sea book featuring Mr. Tanenbaum

The long fronds in a kelp forest can grow to 330 feet in height, making it one of the tallest plants, nearly the length of the Giant Sequoia tree! If an average person is 66 inches tall, how many people would have to stand on top of each other to reach the height of a giant kelp frond?

What is the difference between a fish and a marine mammal?

How long do sea scallops live?

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Calculate the Mean, Median and Mode for the length and weight of haddock caught during a survey tow. While working on these tough math problems, don’t get a haddock!

Length (in cm)	Weight (in kg)
34	0.42
41	1.08
36	0.52
37	0.93
38	0.56
39	0.72
40	0.66
41	0.93
36	0.84
43	0.92
36	1.08
45	0.93
46	1.16

Statistic	Length	Weight
Mean
Median
Mode

Marine Matching

Skate Mako Shark Whale Shark Scallop East Coast lobster West coast lobster Sheephead Garibaldi Phytoplankton Krill Manta Ray Salmon

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Anadromous Brachiopod Catadromous Cetacean Coral Crustacean Echinoderm Marine Fish Marine Plant Mollusk Pinniped	Spend entire life in salt water	Fish that are born in the ocean, lie in fresh water for a while, and return to the ocean to spawn.	Bottom -dwelling filter-feeding invertebrates	Seals, sea lions, walruses

	Fish that are born in fresh water, migrate to the ocean to grow into adults, and return to fresh water to spawn	invertebrate animal with polyps.	Seagrasses, magroves, alge	Any of a broad range of animals with a soft body that is protected by a hard calcareous shell such as clams.

	Crabs and lobster	Any of numerous radially symmetrical marine invertebrates having an internal calcareous skeleton	Whales dolphins and porpoises.