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The ocean is an underworld home to millions of familiar and unfamiliar creatures. One of nature’s more unique fish looks like a bat when gliding through the currently, hides easily in sandy bottoms, and springs rapidly into action when necessary. Meet the stingray—an animal found in oceans around the world who prefers privacy to publicity. But beware—if provoked, stingrays will protect themselves with “tail spines” that can sting and hurt! This graceful animal has adapted to the ocean environment by camouflaging itself from predators like sharks, sea lions, or whales while dining for millions of years on a variety of seafood delights. Learn more about the stingray’s habits, adaptations, and instincts and how to protect yourself when visiting the briny shores.
In this issue students will:
- read informational text about stingrays
- discover structures and instincts that help stingrays survive
- calculate stingray facts
- understand what stingrays eat—and what eats them!
- looks for angles in the newspaper
- edit to catch spelling errors
- use the newspaper to locate long and short vowels in words
- describe why reading is important
7 page PDF
