Ocean Activities

Let’s do some Information writing about Oceans!

This activity can span several weeks and can be worked on over time. If we were in class, we would be taking a lot of time to learn about each animal, do a craft for each animal, and each child would complete an informational writing in the form of a book for an ocean animal of their choosing.

You may choose to do as much or as little with this as you would like. Please do not be overwhelmed with the amount of resources I will be posting in the coming weeks. This is just to give you options and because the children usually LOVE this unit! Each week, I will post more resources on the ocean unit.

I always begin our ocean unit with the children learning about the ocean zones and what animals live in each zone. The children love to take scrap paper and use two different color blue crayons and a black crayon to draw the zones and then to draw the animals which live in each zone.

Let’s begin by learning about the ocean zones:

Here is a fun experiment/craft you can do if you are looking for a follow up activity:

Writing Prompts:

** Please complete the informational writing! The opinion and narrative writing assignments are optional. **

Informational: 

Topic – Ocean Zones

Write three facts you learned about the ocean zones or the animals which live within each zone.

Information Writing Template

Opinion: What zone is your favorite ocean zone and why?

Opinion Writing Template

Narrative: Choose an ocean animal (this is your noun). Use adjectives and verbs to write sentences to describe an ocean animal and what it is doing. 

Writing Paper