As we dove deeper into our Australia unit I realized that we should probably cover The Great Barrier Reef while we're here (pun intended). I picked up a Coral Reef Toob at Michaels ($5 with 50% off coupon), printed out some photos of real life Barrier Reef fish from The Helpful Garden for a matching exercise and took a look through our book collection. There are almost no kid-friendly Barrier Reef Books at our library but I did manage to find The Magic School Bus Takes a Dive (about the coral reef) in our collection.
I also realized that we already own the best Great Barrier Reef resource of all: Finding Nemo!
Mr. B had an absolute blast learning the names of the fish in the Toob (he recognized Nemo and Dory right away) and was very excited to match his toys to the sea creatures introduced in the movie. I also added a few more sea creatures from our collection (i.e. sea turtle, sharks, dolphins, etc).
This may be his favorite unit ever! He has been carrying a basket full of the Toob fish with him everywhere and plays with them all the time.
I also found a fun idea on Creekside Learning involving turning a water table into the Great Barrier Reef. I think that we are definitely going to try this next time we cover Australia again.
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