Meet the megaplankton! Although some jellies may be over 50 feet in length, they are still plankton: drifters or weak swimmers at the mercy of tides and currents. Beautiful photos and detailed illustrations bring these living works of art up close.

Glashka is the only one in her village who can hear the voice of Narna, the whale. That gift leads her to great responsibility one day, when she discovers thousands of whales trapped in an inlet. The narrow route to the sea is rapidly icing over, and every day ice covers more of the open water the whales need to breathe. There seems to be no way out.... This story, based on an actual event, tells of a dramatic rescue-a tale of bravery and the power of music.

Make a tsunami in your bathtub! OK, so it’s only a little tsunami, but it’s still a fun way to learn about the ocean and sea life. Witty Bill Nye helps children explore marine biology through lively descriptions, silly pictures, and offbeat experiments to try at home or school with basketballs, balloons, and squid (or a reasonable facsimile).

Based on a Polynesian legend, this chapter book for older students tells the story of a young boy who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe. The story illustrates his culture’s connection to the ocean. The whole story or selected passages could be read aloud to early elementary students. Newbery medal winner.

Windows on Literacy Fluent Plus readers provide engaging text and strong visuals. These beginning chapter books develop and reinforce practical skills and strategies that students need to successfully read, comprehend, and respond to informational texts.

This book looks at inventions that allow divers to explore deep below the surface of the ocean.

From School Library Journal: Grade 4-7-- Two attractive volumes that have high visual impact and are good reads as well. Don't Blink Now! concentrates on things in the undersea world that happen too quickly or far too slowly for human observers to see. Through technological advances in underwater photography, these high-speed or slow-motion happenings can be captured and timed to show startling and dangerous events. Accompanied by a readable explanatory text, excellent full-color photos (many in sequence) present vivid vignettes of creatures stalking prey, eluding predators, and sometimes becoming entrees. However, the brief look at nesting gentoo penguins seems oddly out of place. Avid viewers of TV nature programs are well aware of the bright, colorful world of the sunlit coral reef, but few have seen a Night Reef , when daytime inhabitants hide and new actors take the stage, many with excellent nocturnal vision. Superb color photos enrich a clear, informative text creating a picture window into this extraordinary, dark seascape. Endpaper maps indicate world-wide coral reef distribution. Aesthetically pleasing, mentally stimulating, and functional to boot.

The world of freshwater dolphins is under-appreciated by most humans. This engaging work captures in detail the important role this mammal plays in its environment. The book is unique in exploring how humans and dolphins affect each other and in shedding light on how biologists do their work. Index, Supplemental Resources.

See the eastern coastline of the United States through the eyes of the author, who is a naturalist, fisher-man, boatman, and avid wildlife watcher. Arnosky’s sparkling illustrations and vivid descriptions will transport the reader to the seaside. Introduction.

An account of a gray whale calf taken from its mother for study in a sheltered environment before being returned to the sea.

A clever hunter, a great storm, and four mischievous, hungry boys remake the face of the earth by creating the sea and the Lesser Antilles islands, in a vivid retelling of an ancient Taino (Puerto Rican Indian)legend. This unusual legend provides an interesting read-aloud as well as a cultural lesson.

"There are uglier fish than a blenny-- But not many..." That's just the start of one of 21 creative and imaginative poems focusing on a variety of ocean creatures. A fantastic literature and poetry connection accompanied with whimsical water-colored illustrations makes this a good read out-loud or student reader.

Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Native American girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life. Interwoven are descriptions of the island, of fish and ocean vegetation, animals and plants. The way she interacts with nature to survive, hunt, build shelter, and design clothing, both as she had been taught by her people and as she develops her own technological and artistic skills, is a particularly strong aspect of the book.

DK Eyewitness series book investigates life on earth, cellular organization and mechanics, reproduction, evolution, and how scientists organize and make sense of the diversity. A great teacher and student reference.

This book is written at a high school level, but can be used as a reference by teachers in a number of habitats.

A high school textbook and workbook introducing marine and estuarine ecology, marine habitats, and the diversity of marine animals and plants.

A concise and comprehensive waterproof guide that works well inside a classroom or while on a field trip. The incredibly detailed illustrations allow for quick and accurate identification of the whales, seals and sea lions of the Eastern North Pacific waters. Guide also includes a photo key and glossary for common visible marine mammal behaviors.

Great mysteries are still hidden many leagues beneath the sea. Join three bold undersea explorers—Jacques Cousteau, Robert Ballard, and Sylvia Earle—as they dare the ocean's depths to bring its secrets to the surface.

Monterey Bay Aquarium Natural History Series. Discover the amazing variety of octopus, squid and cuttlefish. An excellent resource for teachers with accurate, accessible content and high quality illustrations and photos.

llustrated instruction book features 38 unusual subjects, from simple to complex, each graded for difficulty. Sailfish, tadpole, killer whale, bay barnacle, dolphin, horseshoe crab, barracuda, blue crab, American lobster and many more. Step-by-step instructions, notes on animals, technique of wet folding, much more. Over 2,400 black-and-white illustrations. Teachers who enjoy paper-folding or would like to learn can use these figures very effectively in storytelling and presenting information to children: most children will be extremely attentive while someone is showing them an origami fiddler crab, or giant cla, or the very complex and impressive blackdevil angler! But any who are inteding to do these figures in front of a class had bette practice, they aren't easy!

Today, of all the places on Earth, the sea holds the most opportunities for discovery. Less than 1% of the ocean floor has been explored! Learn more about how people work on, play at, and explore the sea.
Reading Focus: Recognizing cause-and-effect paragraphs
Writing Focus: Revising a draft paragraph into cause-and-effect structure

An EdPress Award winner.

Immerse your students in Earth’s most abundant resource--water. Embark on a voyage of discovery as you steer your students through activities designed to teach them about currents, waves, and tides. From an understanding of the properties that make water unique, your students will get a global view of the marine environment, including the impact of human activities on the oceans.

The true story of Siwiti, an orca born in the Pacific Northwest. The book tells the story of her life from her birth onward. While reading, one learns about the lifestyle of orcas - hunting, family relationships, and just daily survival. As Siwiti discovers new things, the reader gains an insight along with her into orca life.

This account of the cephalopods – octopus, squid, nautilus and cuttlefish – begin with the exciting account of a giant squid which, in 1872, dragged a ship below the surface of the sea, killing all on board. And throughout, the text combines exciting writing with factual information, describing hidden octopus watching scuba divers, squid moving “like living missiles” the vampire squid whose appearance resembles Dracula’s cape, the cuttlefish as quick-change artist. Many excellent close-up color photographs combine with the well-written text to produce a book irresistible to young readers. There is a brief glossary, but some terms may need additional explanation. Sections of this would make a good read-aloud.

This richly illustrated book unveils the mystery and wonder of the vast Bering Sea region, from the shores of Alaska, along the volcanic stretch of the Aleutian Islands, to the Russian coast. Author Terry Johnson tells how the biological and physical worlds above and below the sea meld to form a complex and rich natural environment. The book also covers history, and present-day efforts to manage the abundant natural resources.

The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home. Although this picture book is meant for a younger audience, it is useful to demonstrate that in the same way one tree in a forest is important to many other animals, one species in the ocean—like squid—are important to many other species in the ocean.

This captivating tale about the marvelous journey of two men who dared to explore the deep sea includes descriptions of the technological challenges they had to overcome as well as the incredible sights seen from the bathysphere. Interesting diagrams, maps, and historical photos help document this inspirational story. Bibliography by Chapter, Glossary, Index.

When Dr. Seuss gets serious, you know it must be important. Published in 1971, and perhaps inspired by the "save our planet" mindset of the 1960s, The Lorax is an ecological warning that still rings true today amidst the dangers of clear-cutting, pollution, and disregard for the earth's environment. In The Lorax, we find what we've come to expect from the illustrious doctor: brilliantly whimsical rhymes, delightfully original creatures, and weirdly undulating illustrations. But here there is also something more--a powerful message that Seuss implores both adults and children to heed.

The now remorseful Once-ler--our faceless, bodiless narrator--tells the story himself. Long ago this enterprising villain chances upon a place filled with wondrous Truffula Trees, Swomee-Swans, Brown Bar-ba- loots, and Humming-Fishes. Bewitched by the beauty of the Truffula Tree tufts, he greedily chops them down to produce and mass-market Thneeds. ("It's a shirt. It's a sock. It's a glove. It's a hat.") As the trees swiftly disappear and the denizens leave for greener pastures, the fuzzy yellow Lorax (who speaks for the trees "for the trees have no tongues") repeatedly warns the Once-ler, but his words of wisdom are for naught. Finally the Lorax extricates himself from the scorched earth (by the seat of his own furry pants), leaving only a rock engraved "UNLESS." Thus, with his own colorful version of a compelling morality play, Dr. Seuss teaches readers not to fool with Mother Nature. But as you might expect from Seuss, all hope is not lost--the Once-ler has saved a single Truffula Tree seed! Our fate now rests in the hands of a caring child, who becomes our last chance for a clean, green future.

In the Reading Expeditions Earth Science Series, you will explore many fascinating aspects of planet Earth- from its inner core, to the depths of its oceans to its ever changing surface, and its place in the universe. Students will enjoy reading about these topics in these nonfiction books for grades 3-8.

In this book, students follow a sea turtle’s adventures and learn about the features of the oceans and the ocean floor. They will meet human divers and deep-sea creatures along the way.

Describes how a team of researchers off the coast of Maine discovered and tracked a colony of right whales and how the information about the whales' habits has aided in the protection of the species.

This delightfully illustrated book tells the story of Humphrey, a real whale who captured the world's attention when he left the Pacific Ocean in October 1985 and started exploring the Sacramento River. This new edition has been updated with news of Humphrey's travels since 1989. Full-color illustrations and black-and-white photos.

A boy sets a bottle holding a letter and a special charm adrift in the Caribbean Sea, and readers follow its journey across oceans and around continents until it finally reaches Australia, where a girl finds it, writes a letter to the boy, and then composes her own message and sets the vessel adrift again. The bottle's travels are helped and hindered by natural elements, from waterspouts to tidal waves, and Kraske offers fascinating tidbits about these forces of nature. Vivid pen-and-ink drawings illustrate the text. Floca includes simple, clear, informative diagrams of such specimens as krill and jellyfish, as well as maps. These contrast with vivid, exciting scenes that cover most of a two-page spread, such as a battle between an octopus and a shark. Though the information offered is necessarily brief, the well-chosen facts are just enough to explain concepts and delight readers. The premise is similar to Holling C. Holling's Paddle-to-the-Sea (Houghton, 1980) and, like that classic, this title succeeds in providing an unusual and inventive introduction to nature and geography. The wonderful, panoramic complexity of life on Earth comes through.

This is the true story of a ship lost at sea. It went down carrying millions of dollars worth of gold, silver, and precious jewels. It was lost for more than 350 years, until one man made it his lifelong goal to find it.

Two boys from a small town on the Chesapeake Bay help a scientist interested in cleaning up the water for the benefit of animals, plants, and people, while risking parental disapproval of people with too much education and of outsiders’ interference in their means of earning a living.

What causes waves to form? What makes them move? The melding of technical writing and storytelling, incredible photographs, and original artwork makes this book about wave formation and movement both interesting and easy to understand. This detailed analysis of wave action and influences also includes a section about tsunamis. Glossary, Web Resources, Photo Credits.

An introduction to the largest mammals that ever lived, with a brief history of whaling and how it has threatened the whales' survival.