Here is my second themed group of books, activities, and snacks to help you get through this period of Social Distancing at home. Click here to return to the list of themed posts.
Books
“Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau,” Jennifer Berne, available on Overdrive
“The treasure of the sea : Thea Stilton Special Edition Series, Book 5,” Thea Stilton, on Overdrive
“Dark Day in the Deep Sea,” Mary Pope Osborne, on Overdrive
Field Trips
Visit Castle Island. The weather isn’t very good, and most people aren’t going out, so why not take advantage and get you and your kids some exercise and outdoor time! If it isn’t busy it’s very easy to stay really far from other people.
Castle Island is accessible by MBTA Busses # 7, 9 and 11 and has free parking. Take a walk around Pleasure Bay, look for sea glass on the many beaches, collect sea shells and stones. Fly a kite. Play on the playground but bring hand sanitizer. Ride bikes.
Other area beaches accessible by transit: Orient Heights, Revere Beach.
Virtual Field Trips
Monterey Bay Aquarium‘s live animal cams: aviary, coral reef, jelly, kelp forest, Monterey Bay, open ocean, moon jelly, penguin, sea otter and shark.
Activities
- Make plaster of Paris sand prints
- Paint the seashells and stones you collected at the beach
- Make magnets from your painted shells and stones
- Solar Still experiment to make fresh water from sea water. Instructions for a very simple solar still on youtube.
- Stream past expeditions of NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer.
- Online EdX course “One Planet, One Ocean”
- Online UCLA course, “Blue Planet: Introduction to Oceanography“
Snacks
- Bears at the Beach Jello snack
- Crackers with blue dyed cream cheese and “floating” goldfish crackers
- Sandwiches + fish cookie cutters = fun
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