Classroom Resources

This lesson plan for 1st to 5th grade students is designed to pair with South Carolina Sea Grant’s Freshwater and Saltwater Fish Printing Kits, which are free to borrow to any South Carolina K-12, nonformal, or homeschool educator.

This lesson plan for 4th and 5th grade students is an engaging look at South Carolina’s native turtle species.

Designed to work with the From Seeds to Shoreline curriculum, this educator lesson plan walks teachers through the process of making paper from ungerminated Spartina seeds.

This educator lesson plan uses simple materials for activities to demonstrate and learn about how oysters filter water. It includes background educational material.

This journal provides ten writing prompts and engagement activities based on the seven Ocean Literacy Essential Principles for use by educators and parents with their students and children.

This journal provides ten writing prompts and engagement activities based on the seven Ocean Literacy Essential Principles for use by educators and parents with their students and children.

This journal provides ten writing prompts and engagement activities based on the seven Ocean Literacy Essential Principles for use by educators and parents with their students and children.

This data collection sheet is to be used to collect weather data using a homemade anemometer.

This educator lesson plan uses simple materials for activities to learn that phytoplankton are autotrophic and carry out the process of photosynthesis, and understand the importance of body form and function in keeping phytoplankton floating in the upper levels of the water column.

This educator lesson plan uses simple materials to let students determine whether Earth is covered mostly by water or land. Discussion includes reasons why the ocean is important to humans and other animals and plants, and ways in which humans positively and negatively impact the ocean environment.

This educator lesson plan uses simple materials to demonstrate the properties of different liquids, find out whether freshwater or saltwater is more dense, and discover how the density of water impacts Earth’s ecosystems.

This educator lesson plan uses simple materials to explore how local creeks connect to a larger watershed system and communicates the historical and cultural importance of the creeks and watershed systems in the area.

This educator lesson plan uses simple materials to teach about sea-level rise. Discuss the main differences between sea ice and glacial ice, how melting sea ice and/or glacial ice impacts currents and sea level, and how thermohaline circulation affects climate.

This educator lesson plan uses simple materials to teach the carbon cycle in the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. Activities demonstrate how natural processes release and absorb carbon, and ways in which carbon influences and impacts climate.

This educator lesson plan uses simple materials for fun STEM (science-technology-engineering-math) challenges designed to teach about the properties of buoyancy and density. Includes a separate activity to be done with parents.

A regional introduction for educators to three main categories of marine debris: litter; derelict or abandoned boats; and lost or abandoned commercial and recreational fishing gear.

Shortly after its creation in 1980, S.C. Sea Grant Consortium began supporting an effort to bolster K-12 marine education. A long process led to the publication in 1985 of “Sea Sampler: Aquatic Activities for the Field and Classroom,” edited by Wendy Beard Allen and Patty Owens McLaughlin. The science in these publications still holds up, even if some activities might no longer match updated grade-level state education standards.

Shortly after its creation in 1980, S.C. Sea Grant Consortium began supporting an effort to bolster K-12 marine education. A long process led to the publication in 1985 of “Sea Sampler: Aquatic Activities for the Field and Classroom,” edited by Wendy Beard Allen and Patty Owens McLaughlin. The science in these publications still holds up, even if some activities might no longer match updated grade-level state education standards.