The Marine Fish of the World with Coral Reef Fish Unit IS FINALLY HERE!

She's finally ready! After hours, days, weeks....no months, of research and writing, the Marine Fish of thee World with Coral Reef Fish unit has arrived! She's composed of three PowerPoint lessons, each with an accompanying activity guide. Here's the cover I designed for it.

You can have a look at the curriculum here on sale at half price from $8 to only $4 at my CurrClick Home page and at my Teachers Pay Teachers store here. Both give a good description of all that's in the unit instead of me re-writing all that here.

So, of all marine biology topics, why fish? What's so special about fish? According to this nifty little pdf poster (also found on my marine fish pinterest board), not only do they supply immense entertainment among aquarists and amateur hobbyists, are beautiful to look at in the wild (if you have the opportunity to snorkel or scuba dive) they provide a whopping $25 billion dollar food industry! How many of us rely on fish as a part of our diet? And $9 BILLION is made in reef ecotourism PER YEAR of folks coming to look at FISH too! Fish are really important to us. Unfortunately, the oceans need a major serious clean up job, of which I'm hoping for deeply to happen in the Ocean Cleanup project for started by young Boyan Slat, a Dutchman. The dear oceanic community is under seige, mostly....by human activities, of which I won't belabor here.

I hope you enjoy all the fun freebie resources I have for this unit. Even though I use the unit for my online middle/high school classes, the unit can be appreciated by students of all ages. Yes, even you adults. I've my marine science pinterest board loaded with 53 (at the time of writing this) UNIQUE, and I do mean, unique, fascinating, interesting art projects, activities, experiments and resources about these rather remarkable creatures that many of us just deem as food. Remember in Finding Nemo, when the sharks had their AA meeting and repeated over and over..."Fish are friends, not food!" Well, this unit doesn't really get into fish cuisine (although I enjoy some good healthy fish choices every so often myself) as much as it does their personal lives. And we do get personal by looking at some of their internal anatomy. Enjoy the unit, if you'd like! 

Also, have a scroll through NatureGlo's eScience Marine Biology Virtual Library, Marine Fish resource page here.