Download Year 5-6

Yr 5-6
excursion
activity pack
Year 5 to Year 6
1
great southern coast
leafy seadragons
pineapplefish
old wives
shark egg, jaws,
teeth & models
Region quiz: read these questions before you enter the region and keep them in mind. As
you explore, you’ll find the answers on our signs and displays.
1. Cartilage and a large oily _________________ help a shark to float.
2. What is the role of a shark’s dorsal fin?
3. What are dermal denticles?
4. How many teeth can a shark lose in its lifetime?
5. What helps pineapplefish catch their food?
6. Where in the world can leafy seadragons be found?
7. What is a seadragons camouflage?
8. How is seaweed such as kelp different to other plants?
9. What did Albany’s local Aboriginal people use to catch fish instead of hooks?
Ocean eggs: many sea creatures have eggs that they lay or carry until hatching.
Find the Port Jackson shark egg and then the leafy seadragon sign that shows its eggs:
10.Describe how the eggs are cared for differently:
Port Jackson egg:
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Seadragon eggs:
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1
great southern coast
leafy seadragons
pineapplefish
old wives
shark egg, jaws,
teeth & models
Draw the teeth of the grey nurse shark and the tiger shark:
Grey nurse shark
Tiger shark
11. What are the main differences?
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12. How do these differences relate to how and what they can eat?
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Observe the leafy seadragons.
13. How do they move? Is it the same as most fish?
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14. What is the benefit of moving in this way?
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2
shipwreck coast
open-ocean fish
stingrays
turtle
sharks
Region quiz: read these questions before you enter the region and keep them in mind. As
you explore, you’ll find the answers on our signs and displays.
1. How many litres of water are in the Shipwreck Coast exhibit?
2. How much smaller does the curve of the glass make everything look?
3. How many nostrils do fish have?
4. Can sharks breathe through their nose?
5. How do sharks feel movement in the water?
Shark designer: there are hundreds of different species of sharks and they live in different
areas of the ocean. Their bodies are designed to help them hide and catch the food available
in their environment.
Read the descriptions below and choose the features that would make YOUR ultimate shark:
body
teeth
Jagged
triangular
teeth for
ripping and
tearing.
tail
Flat body to rest and
hide on the bottom
Rounded body to
float easily and
hover motionless,
using less energy.
Thin pointy teeth for
grabbing slippery
food and swallowing it
whole.
Jagged
curved teeth
for piercing
then tearing.
Torpedo shaped
body to glide
quickly through
the water.
Powerful tail to swim
fast and far.
Long curved tail to
strike and stun your
prey.
Flattened tail
to hide easily
in the sand
6. Based on what you chose, where would your shark live and what would it eat?
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2
shipwreck coast
open-ocean fish
stingrays
turtle
sharks
In our Shipwreck Coast, we have 6 different kinds of sharks: Grey Nurse, Sandbar Whaler,
Nervous Whaler, Port Jackson, Bamboo and Wobbegong.
Data collection: on your underwater journey through the Shipwreck Coast look around you
for sharks. Every time you see a shark, keep a tally of what it is doing in the chart:
Behaviour:
Number of times observed:
Swimming near surface
Swimming in the middle
Hovering in one place
Gulping air at the surface
Eating fish
Sitting on the bottom
Hiding in a cave
Getting cleaned by a fish
Other:
Example:
Swimming near surface
IIII IIII
7. What was the most common behaviour you observed?
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8. What did you think the most common behaviour would have been?
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9. For shark species that swim near the top or in the middle, name something they have in common:
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10. For shark species that sit on the bottom or hide in caves, name something they have in common:
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3
Perth coast
octopus
lobsters
jellyfish
seahorses
stripeys
footballer sweeps
Region quiz: read these questions before you enter the region and keep them in mind. As
you explore, you’ll find the answers on our signs and displays.
1. What does a tube anemone use to make its hiding tube?
2. How many hearts does an octopus have?
3. Do jellyfish have brains?
4. How do jellyfish catch their food?
5. What is an indigenous word for dolphin?
6. What is a baby fish called?________________________________________________
Circle of sealife: sea creatures have young in many different ways and their young can grow
in many different phases. The way an animal is born and grows is called its “life cycle”.
When you think about a sea creatures life cycle, these 3 things are important:
• Some sea creatures protect their eggs until they hatch or are born, others simply release
their eggs into the water and hope for the best!
• Some young hatch or are born and look like tiny versions of their parents and simply
grow bigger. Others can go through one or many transformations! At first, they might
be something called a larva, polyp and look totally different to their parents, then slowly
they change into adults.
• Once the young arrive, there’s a decision to be made: do they travel, or stay put?
7. What is it called when an animal travels based on the season? M___________________
8. Complete the table opposite by filling in the blanks. For each animal decide:
- Are the eggs protected by a parent?
- Are the young exactly like their parents, or do they transform?
- Do they stay where they are born, or travel somewhere else?
3
Perth coast
octopus
lobsters
jellyfish
seahorses
stripeys
footballer sweeps
Some boxes we have filled in for you. You will have to find the remaining answers on our signs
or by observing the animals. The first column tells you the animal and where to find it:
Young vs. Adult
Are the eggs protected
by a parent?
Yes or No
Sea Squirt - Swan River
Young looks like:
NO
Compare the picture to
Do they travel after
the animal in our exhibit. being born?
Do the young transform?
Yes or No
Yes or No
YES
(they swim for a few
days to find the perfect
spot, then settle into
the sand to grow up)
NO
Gobbleguts - Scarborough
Young looks like:
(these fish are born in
coastal reefs and sandy
flats which remains as
their habitat)
Lobster - Alkimos
Young looks like:
yes
(the mum holds her
eggs under her tail! If
you’re visiting in summer, see if our females
have any eggs!)
Mullet - Cockburn Sound
Adult looks like:
NO
(but they are protected
by the shallow water
and their school!)
4
far north coast
baby crocodiles
tropical fish & corals
clownfish (Nemo)
blue tang (Dory)
Creatures Up Close exhibit
Region Quiz: read these questions before you enter the region and keep them in mind. As
you explore, you’ll find the answers on our signs and displays.
1. How long can a crocodile hold it’s breath for?
2. Do crocodiles need to eat often?
3. Name an “apartment shape” that corals can grow:
4. Why don’t anemonefish get stung by their anemone?
5. Who has the babies - male or female seahorses?
6. How many species of coral are found in the Rowley Shoals?
Hot in here: The water in the far north region is much warmer than the previous areas you
have explored. Lets look at how temperature affects the kinds of animals living here:
Fish and reptiles (like crocodiles) are cold blooded. That means they can’t keep their bodies
warm like we do. Instead, their body temperature matches their environment.
7. Where in WA are crocodiles found? __________________________________________
8. How do crocodiles get warm?______________________________________________
9. Why would crocodiles want to get warm?______________________________________
10. How does temperature affect baby crocodiles?_________________________________
11. What is one way a fish could get warmer if it needed to?_________________________
Warm water helps more corals to grow and reefs to form.
12. Describe the kinds of fish that live in these coral reefs:
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13. Why are they different from other fish you have seen today?
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4
far north coast
baby crocodiles
tropical fish & corals
clownfish (Nemo)
blue tang (Dory)
Creatures Up Close exhibit
Adaptations are features or behaviours that help an animal to survive in their environment.
Identify which adaptations (features and behaviours) these sea creatures have developed:
Body:
-Flat
-Boxy or Round
-Long and thin
Mouth:
-Front of face
-Under body
-Like a straw
Colour/Pattern:
-Stripes or spots
-Bright colours
-No colour
Behaviour:
-Hides or buries
-Swims quickly
-Floats or drifts
Special Defence:
-Spines or barbs
-Poison
-Protected by other animals
-Bright blue as a warning sign
Blue Spotted
Lagoon Stingray
Rowley Shoals
Clownfish
Creatures Up
Close exhibit
Moray Eel
Creatures Up
Close exhibit
Longhorned
Cowfish
Rowley Shoals
Blue Tang
Surgeonfish
Coral Lagoon
14. Of these animals, pick your favourite to do a profile on:________________________
Based on the data you collected about your animal’s adaptations, answer the following:
15. Where does your creature live (coral reef, sea floor, deep sea, open ocean or shoreline)?
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16. How does its body and its colours/patterns help it survive here?
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17. How does it defend itself?
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18. How does its mouth help it to find/catch food?
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5
DANGERzone
sea snake
stonefish
Theatrette
lionfish
blue ringed
octopus (seasonal)
All animals have certain features which help them to survive in their
environment. Investigate the sea snake in AQWA’s DANGERzone.
1. What shape is the end of its tail?
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2. How could this help a sea snake to swim?
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3. How would you describe the overall shape of a sea snake’s body?
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4. How could this shape help a sea snake to hide?
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Animals can be grouped based on their common features and separated based on their
differences. Lets practice grouping by thinking about the sea snake:
5. Name one difference and one similarity between a land snake and a sea snake:
They have different:___________________________________________________
They have similar:____________________________________________________
6. Name one difference and one similarity between a sea snake and an eel (you can see an
eel in our Creatures Up Close exhibit in the Far North).
They have different:__________________________________________________
They have similar:____________________________________________________
7. Do you think that a sea snake is related to a land snake or an eel? Circle your guess:
land snake
/
eel
5
Theatrette
DANGERzone
sea snake
stonefish
lionfish
blue ringed
octopus (seasonal)
Investigate each animal in the DANGERzone by observing and reading the information.
8. Tick the group the animal belongs to and write what part of its body is dangerous:
Group:
Fish:
has gills to
breathe in
water, has
fins
Reptile:
has lungs to
breathe air, can
hold breath in
water
Mollusc:
has a soft,
fleshy body,
sometimes has
a shell
Cnidarian:
has stinging
tentacles and a
jelly-like body
What is
dangerous?
Its bite/teeth,
spines, flesh or
tentacles?
6
Marmion Marine Park
Discovery Pool
Coral Reef
Adventure Bay
Playground &
Picnic Areas
Region Quiz: read these questions before you enter the region and keep them in mind. As
you explore, you’ll find the answers on our signs and displays
1. How many teeth do sea urchins have?
2. What animal breathes through its bottom?
3. Which animal takes its stomach out of its mouth to eat?
4. Why are fish slimy? Give at least 3 reasons:
Coral is made up of tiny jellyfish like animals, called polyps, that live together in a colony.
5. Most animals are capable of locomotion (moving around). Why can’t coral polyps?
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There are hard and soft corals. Hard corals make a skeleton for themselves and as they grow
so does the reef.
6. What do they use to make these bony structures?
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7. What grows inside hard corals and what does it do for the coral?
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Hint: corals don’t need to find much food because of this!
8. Why can daisy corals live in the dark, while many other corals can’t?
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9. Recipe for a reef; what are the 3 water conditions that all coral reefs need to grow?
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