Seastyle

Age 9, Group or Independent

45 minutes, indoors or outdoors

• Examine the anatomy and lifestyle of fish.

• California's Golden Seas booklet (see appendix)
• Fishstyle sheet
• How do fish sheet
• pencils or chalkboard and chalk
• poster or transparency and crayons

• Duplicate and distribute Fishstyle and How do fish pages OR
• superimpose the information on a chalkboard, poster or transparency for group discussion.

• Review California's Golden Seas booklet.
• Discuss the lifestyle and habitats of fish with those of mammals.
  • How do they breathe?
  • How do they sleep?
  • How do you determine a fish's age?
  • What do they eat?
  • How far do they travel?
  • Why is this information important to fishermen and fisherwomen?
• Review what variables affect the lifestyle and habitat of fish.

• Take a trip to an aquarium to study finfish and shellfish.
• Compare the different species.
• Are there flatfish and roundfish?
• Do all shellfish have external shells?