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This image will help your students visually see how each and ever shark is different and unique. They can also use this image to see what things the sharks have in common with one another.

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This video will help your students understand some of the differences between some of the sharks in the ocean. And they will get to learn why sharks are important to our oceans. This video is full of a bunch of important facts for your students to learn about sharks.

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This sheet has step by step directions for you to use to help your students draw their own shark, this will help show how each shark is unique because even when they all follow the same directions they will all be drawn slightly differently. Give them time to color and write a sentence or two about their shark.

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This is an online book on an website that is free to teachers (getepic.com). You can use this book and read it to the class while it is on the front board. This is one of the books that has a quiz at the end of it that you and your class can do together.

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This word search will help your students visualize some of the terms that will be used in this unit as well as some words or phrases that are already familiar to them.

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This website is full of information for students about sharks and gives some vocabulary words for the students to know. It has videos, pictures and a list of the most common sharks. Such a great tool to give to your students to look at independently or a site to look at together as a class.

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From scary movies to beachside signs, sharks have a hair-raising reputation. But are they really as scary as they're portrayed? The truth is, only 25 species (out of 368 species) attack humans, and only about 100 people each year are attacked by sharks. More people die every year from bee stings, natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes or lightning strikes, volcanoes, and tens of thousands die in car and road accidents. The bull shark is the shark most often responsible for attacks, because it swims in the same shallow waters preferred by swimmers.

Sharks are ancient animals. They've been on earth for at least 420 million years. Sharks, unlike most fish, don't have bones, but cartilage, which is a soft, sinewy substance. They have several rows of teeth and might have as many as 3,000 teeth in their mouths at one time. When one tooth falls out, another one moves forward to replace it.

Some of the most commonly known sharks are:

Fun Facts About Sharks for Kids

It's hard to see in the murky waters of the deep, but sharks have excellent vision. Their night vision is better than a cat's or a wolf's.

A shark's sense of smell is 10,000 times better than a human's.

Sharks can detect electrical impulses, including another animal's beating heart. That's a little creepy, isn't it?

Sharks are picky eaters. They often take one bite of something before they decide to go in for the kill. This is why they often swim away after "tasting" a human.

Shark Vocabulary

Learn More All About Sharks

Watch this exciting documentary video of the biggest shark that ever lived, Megalodon!

A video documentary about a historical giant shark, Megalodon.

Shark QUESTIONS & ANSWERS for kids

Answer 1: Sharks can range in size from tiny to as big as a bus. The spined pygmy shark grows only 7 inches long, while the whale shark can reach over 50 feet long. Most sharks are about the same size as a human, or slightly larger.

Answer 2: All sharks are meat eaters. Small sharks eat plankton, small animals and shellfish. Large sharks eat fish, sea lions and seals.

Answer 3: For now we know of over 500 different shark types in our waters. New species get discovered every year. Fossils found over time suggest that millions of years ago there may have been over 3000 different shark species, this would have been when water levels where much higher and the climate warmer.

Answer 4: Sharks have inner ears, they have very small openings on the side of their heads. Sharks have fantastic hearing, they are tuned into much lower frequencies than us and they can hear movement in the water from miles away.

Answer 5: A whale shark can reach over 20 meters in length making is the largest shark at present.

Answer 6: Studies to date show that a great white shark can live up to 70 years.

Answer 7: The Shortfin Mako Shark is the fastest of the shark species reaching speed of 60 miles per hour when in pursuit of prey like tuna and other fish.

Answer 8: Yes they do and even the great white has. Orca whales also know as killer whales will attack great white sharks. Although it is rare it can happen. Sharks are generally the rulers of the oceans.

Answer 9: Sharks have an amazing sense of smell. A shark can smell even a single drop of blood in the water. Just because a shark picks up a sense of blood in the water it doesn't mean it will go on the hunt. A shark will only eat when hungry.

Answer 10: Most sharks can drown, in order not to do so they need to keep moving.

Answer 11: No, in fact 97% of the shark species have no interest in us and are completely harmless. Even great white shark attacks are extremely rare.

Answer 12: The Mako and the Great White sharks are known to be great jumpers. The great white can jump up to 3 meters while the Mako shark can jump as high as 9 meters.

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Shark Facts for Kids (All You Need to Know!)

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Easy Science for Kids Shark Family - learn fun facts about animals, the human body, our planet and much more. Fun free Shark Family activities!

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This video will give students a list of sharks and a fact about them. The fact may be about where they live, what they eat, where they sleep, the water they can live in, or how fast they swim.

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Give this worksheet to your students while they watch the video under the section "types of sharks". Each student will get to pick 6 sharks of their choosing from the video and they get to write down the fact that was given. This will keep them engaged during the video and they can do this independently so that they can pause the video to write the fact down.

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This page will help you see where your students are during the lesson and what they are remembering. These are all facts that have come from the videos and activities on this page.

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This sheet is to give your students the chance to show what they know and create a page about a shark of their own. They get to draw their shark and write about what it eats, lives and so much more.

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Blue and Red Preschool Book Review Worksheet (1)