Animal Anatomy - Sharks
Grade 5-8

Sharks are incredible creatures! Some sharks inhabit the top of the marine food chain, while others have plant-based diets. The most famous sharks have rows and rows of teeth. Some sharks have no teeth at all! This course will explore the distinctive characteristics and lifestyles that sharks have, the unique anatomy specific to sharks and rays, and their place in the marine food web. Students will become familiar with different categories of sharks and the variety of reproductive strategies utilized. If time
permits, the class will explore differences between bony and cartilaginous fish.

There will be lots of student-led discussion, some video (for example, shark web cams and slo-mo video of shark in motion),
hand-on activities (Build a Shark!), and coloring of anatomical structures in this class.