Objective:
The student will transform the classroom into a giant aquarium.
Materials Needed:
Activity:
This lesson would be most effective if used in conjunction with preparations for a Parent’s Night event.
Challenge the students to transform the entire classroom into a giant aquarium. Decorate the bulletin boards, windows, desks, chalkboards, computers and other classroom equipment to look like fish or the accessories that are normally found in an aquarium (plants, colorful rocks, gravel, treasure chests, castles, shipwrecks, coral, etc.)
Students should spend some time brainstorming on the types of decorations and the teacher can delegate the decorating tasks to groups of students.
Perhaps the school’s art teacher can give the students some ideas and some unusual artistic techniques for this lesson.
Students can dress in fish costumes or fish hats in keeping with the aquarium theme. Be sure to spotlight any of the students’ essays, stories, poems or artwork with fish themes.
Result:
Invite parents to a special event or time the debut of the classroom aquarium with a schoolwide Parent’s Night activity. Parents will take a tour of the classroom aquarium. Take lots of photos to display on the school’s bulletin board and send some copies to Sara Hunt at Aquademics™ Headquarters, 4121 Cox Road, Suite 107, Glen Allen, VA 23060.
