Lesson Plans
The following lesson plans and worksheets are available through the Education Program at the NJSGC.
Lesson Plans:
- Beach Profiling
- Beach Zonation
- Build-A-Fish
- Build-A-Horseshoe Crab
- Catch, Tag and Release
- Clarity and Turbidity
- Classification and Identification
- CSI: Clamshell Investigation
- Dunes and Dune Grass
- Estuaries and Oil Spills
- Estuarine Currents
- Fish Morphology
- Food Web Jenga NEW!
- Homes For Hermit Crabs
- Incredible Crustaceans
- Longshore Current
- Love A Lobster
- Mapping The Ocean Floor
- Marine Debris Timeline: How Long Does Trash Last? NEW!
- Marsh Munchies
- Microplastics Biomagnification Board Game NEW!
- Microplastics in the Marine Environment NEW!
- Modeling Beach Erosion
- Nearshore Community Sampling
- Ocean Acidification Lego Game NEW!
- Ocean Acidification
- Oxygen In The Water
- pH
- Plankton
- Salinity
- Salt Marsh In A Pan
- Seashell Homes
- Seashell Mapping
- Shrinking Shorelines
- Skates
- Squid Dissection
- Storm Surge Watches and Warnings
- Teachers Guide to the Monmouth County High Water Mark Initiative
- Understanding Storm Surge
- Water Quality Monitoring
- Web Of Life
- Why Are Dunes Important
Booklets:
Worksheets:
- Analyze Your Sand Samples
- Barrier Beach Dynamics Checklist
- Beach Profiling Data Collection Sheet
- Beach Profiling Graphing Worksheet
- Build A Fish
- Build A Horseshoe Crab Fact Cards
- Calculating the Speed of the Longshore/Littoral Current
- Charting The Tides Worksheet
- Clam Shell Data Collection Worksheet
- Common Arthropods of the Jersey Shore
- Common Fish of the Jersey Shore
- Common Mollusks of the Jersey Shore
- Common Plants of the Jersey Shore
- Estuaries and Oil Spills
- Exploring Beach Sand
- Fabulous Flora Checklist
- Fish Morphology Fish Shapes
- Fish Morphology Student Activity 1
- Fish Morphology Student Activity 2
- Grain Shape
- Grain Size How big are the sand grains?
- Holey Clams Shells Data Collection Sheet
- How Much Ocean?
- How to Construct a Seine Net
- How to Construct a Sand Wheel
- How to Construct a Soda Bottle Plankton Net
- Land Versus Water
- Mapping A Watershed
- Marine Debris Timeline NEW!
- Squid Dissection
- Understanding Waves
- Watersheds and Estuaries
- Weather & Percolation