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Workbook
For Children, Parents, And Teachers
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CONTENTS
1) Make A Lighthouse
2) Ocean To Go
3) Jersey Devil Mask
4) What's Wrong With This Picture?
5) Concentration
6) Scavenger hunt
7) Ocean Mobile
8) Shore Riddles
9) Fill In The Blanks With Shore Related Words From The Word Bank Box
10) Stepping Stone
11) Jersey Shore Postcard Scrapbook
12) Questions And Answers
13) Shore Tongue Twisters
14) Find A Word
15) Scrambled Words
16) Observation
17) Make A Diorama Of The Shore
18) Treasure Hunt Maze
19) Connect The Dots
20) Crossword Puzzle
MAKE A LIGHTHOUSE
Papertowel roll -- the length is up to you.
Take a yellow paper cup that can fit upside down over the top. Roll the cup in gold or silver glitter to help it shine. Glue the cup upside down on the top of your lighthouse.
Paint your lighthouse to look like "Barney" -- white for most of the bottom and red near the top. Don't forget to draw the windows and a door.
If you like this activity, find out more about the lighthouses of the Jersey Shore and try to recreate some of them.
OCEAN TO GO
1. Take an empty plastic soap bottle with a top, and clean it out well.
2. Fill the bottle a 1/4 of the way with sand from the beach, add some small shells and small pieces of driftwood.
3. Add water from the tap and a few drops of blue food color.
4. Close bottle top tightly and shake gently.
5. Watch the sand and other materials settle themselves down inside the bottle. You now have your ocean to go.
JERSEY DEVIL MASK
Materials include one flashlight, paper of your choice, and a rubber band.
1. Cut out eyes in the paper and a mouth.
2. Fold the paper over the head of the flashlight so that the eyes and mouth are on the lighted part. Use the rubber band to hold the paper on the flashlight.
3. Go outside when it is dark (make sure an adult knows where you are), hide, and when a friend walks by, turn on the flashlight. Add your own sounds and watch them JUMP!
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
There are eleven things wrong with this picture. See if you can find all eleven. When you're finished, click on the link below to see if you found them all. The drawing was done by Armando, a fourth grade student.
CONCENTRATION
1. You will need 12 index cards. Draw a set of six matching pictures from the book (two cards of each picture). The picture may be simple, such as a star, a clam, a fish, or it may be more complicated, such as an inlet, a tide pool or an island.
2. Lay the pictures out (picture side up) and mix them up. Look at the cards. Then turn them over.
3. Player one tries to find cards that match. If he comes up with a match, he takes both cards. If a player goes and can't find a match, he must return the card face down and allow the next player to go.
You may increase the difficulty of the game by increasing the number of cards. You may also play this game alone with a timer.
SCAVENGER HUNT
While down at the seashore, challenge yourself to find the following ten items which are all in the book: clam shell, crab claw, oyster shell, piece of sea glass, mussel shell, a gull feather, scallop shell, sand dollar, piece of driftwood and a starfish.
You may play this game with someone or alone. Set a specific amount of time to find the items. Whoever finds the most items at the end of that time is the winner. Use some of these items in the next activity.
OCEAN MOBILE
1. You will need driftwood.
2. Yarn, ribbon or string to help hang things.
3. Go for a walk along the shore. Pick up things you would like to put on your mobile.
4. Set everything out to see what you have. Then chose what would look good. Try to have different colors, shapes and sizes.
5. Tie your items tightly onto strings of different lengths. Then tie the strings to the driftwood.
6. Hang it up, and see it turn in the breeze.
SHORE RIDDLES
1. I am what's left when the tide goes out. I have my own tiny world of sea life. Take the time to look.
2. I am the world's biggest mammal. I live in the ocean, but I must come up for air. People of all ages enjoy watching me.
3. I am small and colorful. In the spring and fall, many people go to Cape May to see thousands like me. My orange and black wings take me all the way to Mexico.
4. I am a mythical winged creature with a horse's head, a vulture's claws, and a dragon's tail. People say I roam the Pine Barrens.
5. I swim and crawl in your bays and oceans. I'm good to eat but hard to catch. Be careful how you pick me up.
6. I look like a helmet with a spike. I live in the shallow waters of the ocean and bays. I lay my eggs in the sand on the beach. If you turn me over, I may surprise you.
7. I am 127 miles long. I stretch from Sandy Hook to Cape May. People love to visit me in the summer.
8. I am red on top and white on the bottom. I am very tall, and many people call me by my nickname. I used to help sailors find their way home.
9.I am very deep and full of life. People depend on me for food and enjoyment. I am huge and salty. I am the boundary of the east coast.
10. I'm a keen observer of what I see and hear. I hunt the ocean by day looking for fish. I build my large nest in cedar trees by the bay.
Answers: 1. tidepool; 2. whale; 3. monarch butterfly; 4 Jersey Devil; 5. crab; 6. horseshoe crab; 7. Jersey Shore; 8. Barnegat Lighthouse (Old Barney); 9. the Atlantic Ocean; 10. osprey.
FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH SHORE RELATED WORDS FROM THE WORD BANK BOX:
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inlet • egret • dune grasses
undertow • Old Barney • horseshoe crabs
Lenni-Lenape • egret • monarch • whale
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1. Barnegat Lighthouse is nicknamed ____________________.
2. ____________________ hold sand dunes in place, so the beach won't wash away.
3. ____________________ live in the shallow waters along the Atlantic Coast.
4. The ____________________ is a mythical winged creature that some people say roams the Pine Barrens.
5. An opening in the land that connects the ocean with the bay is called an _____.
6. The ____________________ is a tall white bird with a long curvy neck, a pointy yellow beak and two thin legs.
7. The ____________________ is a colorful insect that migrates along the shore.
8. When swimming in the ocean, you must be careful of the ____________________.
9. The ____________________ is the world's largest mammal.
10. The Indians who first lived in New Jersey were the ____________________.
STEPPING STONES
1. Collect shells -- small. Collect driftwood -- small.
2. Clean off sand and let shells and driftwood dry.
3. Plaster of paris
4. a milk container cleaned out
5. Cut container lengthwise and line the bottom of the empty container with shells and driftwood. Carefully fill with plaster of paris halfway. Let it set and dry well.
6. Cut container away and turn upside down. Shells and driftwood are now on top. Repeat for more stepping stones. Use (under supervision) cement for outdoor stepping stones.
JERSEY SHORE POSTCARD SCRAPBOOK
Buy a scrapbook and decorate the front with a shore theme -- either drawings or pictures cut out from magazines and newspapers. Then collect either new postcards or older used postcards about the shore and arrange them in your scrapbook any way you choose. Write a few words about the place where you picked up the postcard.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. The Lenni-Lenape Indians made wampum beads from these hardshell clams. What is another name for the clams?
2. What is a tide pool?
3. What is the large body of salt water that lies along the east coast of America called?
4. What is Old Barney the nick name for?
5. What tall structures once lit the way for sailors from Cape May to Sandy Hook?
6. What type of tree does well in the salt-wind by the shore?
7. What is the world's largest mammal?
8. What type of large boat do fun-loving people like to sail on the rivers, bays, and ocean?
9. What pirate do people say buried his treasure somewhere on the Jersey shore?
10. What is the name of the forest in southern and central New Jersey that has many small pine trees, sandy soils, and swampy streams?
Answers: 1. quahogs; 2. a small pool of water left behind when the tide is out; 3. Barnegat Lighthouse; 5. lighthouses; 6. pitch pine; 7. the whale; 8. a yacht; 9. Captain Kidd; 10. the Pine Barrens.
SHORE TONGUE TWISTERS
Say the following slick sentences at super speed!
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
Sleek stingrays slip silently through the slippery sea.
Wonder Whale Willy went whistling through wickedly wild waves.
Try to make up one of your own shore tongue twisters.
FIND A WORD
SCRAMBLED WORDS
Unscramble the words. All are related to the shore. If you get all 15, consider yourself an expert.
1. lulg
2. brac
3. dans
4. yerpso
5. nocae
6. sfikginreh
7. trege
8. selghithuo
9. awlhe
10. dre xfo
11. aonmchr
12. cayhst
13.derse
14. hisflilk
15. doworidft
Answers: 1. gull; 2. crab; 3. sand; 4. osprey; 5. ocean; 6. kingfisher; 7. egret; 8. lighthouse; 9. whale; 10. red fox; 11. monarch; 12. yachts; 13. reeds; 14. killifish; 15. driftwood.
OBSERVATION
Go to the shore with a pad and pencil. Find a place to sit for fifteen minutes (you set the time) and put down everything you can see, feel, smell, hear, and taste in that length of time. Record the time, day and month of the year. You could use some of the sense details you listed for a poem or a story about the shore, or you could just keep a journal. Along with your writing, make some rough sketches of things you saw.
MAKE A DIORAMA OF THE SHORE
A diorama is a scene that shows figures of people, animals and things in their natural setting.
1. Decide what scene you want to show. For example: a fishing village, a beach, a boardwalk, a state park ...
2. Use a shoebox or something similar (a small cardboard box) to put your scene in.
3. You may color the background with crayons, color pencils, paint, or liquid markers.
4. You may use just about any material available to complete your diorama: clay, twigs, grass, sand, small plastic toys, popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners...
5. After you place things where you want, use glue or tape to keep them from moving around.
6. On an index card or small piece of paper, neatly print some information about your diorama
TREASURE HUNT MAZE
CONNECT THE DOTS
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
