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The following are activities your class can do.
Construct Coral!
You could construct a coral reef using clay. Look at a picture of coral
(on the main page) and model the clay after it. This would be a great three-dimensional
model of a coral reef!
Materials Needed:
 | Quick drying clay or normal clay (quick dry is easier to use in a
classroom)
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| Tools (such as shaping tools for pottery)
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| Newspaper
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| Picture of coral
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Instructions:
Take the clay from the package.
Post the picture somewhere in the room where all students are able to
see it.
Let them create their coral. If the clay begins to dry from excessive
handeling, moisten it slightly with some water. Be careful not to put too much water in
it, or it will begin to fall apart and smear.
If it is quick dry clay, just allow it to dry. It should dry in about a
day. If it is normal pottery clay, fire it in a professional firing room.
***Remember: Have the students put their initials on their pottery
before firing!***
See Coral Under The Microscope!
What is there? What are the corals made up of? Can you see the little
creatures? You can only know by sight! If you have a coral sample, have a class look under
the microscope!
Materials Needed:
| High power microscope
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| Piece of coral (can be obtained at almost any ocean store)
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Instructions
Place the coral under the microscope.
Adjust the microscope to the proper power setting.
Allow the students to look at it through the microscope.
Ask them to write down what they saw.
Make a Stamp!
You could also (if you are an art teacher) have your class make a stamp
about "Saving Coral" or "Coral is Great!" Let them be creative. This
could be a stamp that could actually, someday, become a true stamp!
Materials Needed:
| Any kind of drawing instrument (ex. markers, crayons, colored pencils)
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| Manilla paper or computer paper
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Instructions:
Have the student first put their name on the page (preferably on the
back.)
Next, have them draw their stamp.
The Dying Coral
Materials Needed:
| Different colors of paper
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Instructions:
Cut out the different colors of paper.
Make a "key" for each of them (ex. red stands for oil)
Scatter the pieces of paper around the classroom.
Have each student pick up at least one of the pieces of paper.
Then, announce what each means. Every one of them that is poison means
some coral dies (the student is supposed to be the coral.)
Next, make a graph of the coral that died (and of what,) and how many
out of the number of the class actually "lived."
SAVE OUR CORAL!
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