Lobster Prey Learning Center: What do Lobsters eat?
Exploring Ocean Life
About midway though our lobster unit study I open the Ocean Floor Learning Center on the classroom rug. I wait until the children have enough knowledge of the lives of lobsters for them to be able to use this knowledge in the center.
Set up an Ocean Floor Learning Center on your classroom rug. Inhabit the ocean floor with plastic lobsters, crabs, fish, shellfish, seaweed and other plants and animals found in a lobster’s habitat. Use a permanent marker to label each animal with it’s name. Create a shelf for storing each of the animals. Label each animal’s spot on the shelf so that the children can practice reading the words as they put them back in order.
Exploring a lobster in the Ocean Floor Learning Center
Children play the parts of animals of their choice as they act out scenes from the everyday lives of lobsters.
Tactile and visual learners will benefit from playing with the animals that the lobster eats. Turn your rug into an ocean floor and let the lobsters find their prey.
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Posted by Sara on January 9, 2011 at 8:06 PM
This is a great idea. I remember doing something similar with my son when he was into dinosaurs. You come up with some of the best tactile learning ideas.