Looking for some activities to do in your classroom or at home?
Make Your Own Coral Reef
(a community-built reef from the Science Friday “Create Curiosity Fair” event at WBUR CitySpace in Boston, MA)
Have you ever wanted to build a coral reef from scratch? Well, now you can! (But it’ll be out of paper, not ACTUAL corals…)
Coral Reefs Coloring Pages
(pages 24 and 25 from Coral Reefs: Cities of the Ocean)
These two pages show two very different habitats, but what are some things that they have in common?
Coral Reef Food Web
Figure out who eats who in the reef!
(page 27 from Coral Reefs: Cities of the Oceans)
Dragon Bones Coloring Pages
There’s a good chance that where you live was once covered in ocean. 190 million years ago, much of the world was covered in both shallow and deep seas. Take a dive into the ocean (and back in time) to the Jurassic Period!
(a black and white version of the endpapers from Dragon Bones)
More Than Just a Shell: Ammonites
Use your knowledge of cephalopods and a little bit of imagination to draw your own ammonites!
(a section from the ammonite activity sheet)
Jurassic Art: Building on Bones
Use your knowledge of reptiles and a little bit of imagination to draw your own ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs!
(a section from the ichthyosaur/plesiosaur activity sheet)