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What might a banana peel teach at the beach? Plenty! By splitting a banana carefully into five long strips, you’ll learn about echinoderms and how they manage life on the ocean floor or in tide pools. By following the instructions in this issue, your wiggly flexible peels can transform into a sea star, sea urchin, or a sea cucumber! Special physical structures, such as spines or tube feet, help echinoderms strive and survive in the briny depths. Once you have your sea legs, dive into the newspaper to treasure hunt for other groups of five. Before you leave the beach, describe in your own words why five is a special number. Keep exploring!
In this issue students will:
- read informational text about echinoderms
- learn what starfish, urchins and sea cucumbers have in common with a banana
- follow simple written directions to make echinoderm shapes
- discover tide pools and mermaid’s purses
- find similarities and differences in two illustrations
- understand how special structures help starfish move
- complete starfish patterns
- use the newspaper for a treasure hunt
- write descriptively about the number five
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