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Processing fish
In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 5
The three women are working with knives and baskets to sort and clean the fish. The wall behind them is the harbor's seawall.
By Lorraine Aragon.
Fish and mermaids destroy the bridge
In The Ramayana, page 4.10
This mural detail from the Emerald Buddha Temple shows large fish and mermaids moving through cresting ocean waves to carry stones away from Rama's bridge. At right a merman and mermaid couple carry large stones held high over their shoulders and behind their...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Writing a fish book: Number and color details
Students will learn and write color words and number words.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
By Stephanie Phelps.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Once I Caught a Fish Alive): Counting and directional words
In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 12
In this kindergarten lesson plan, students use the nursery rhyme "1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Once I Caught a Fish Alive)" to practice recognition of written numbers and directional words.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
By Lisa Wright.
Fish market
In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 6
Women in Southeast Asia often work as food merchants in centralized outdoor markets where regional farm produce is collected for sale to surrounding town residents. Typically vendors selling similar items in adjacent spots are both cooperating and competing...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Problem solving with Swimmy
This lesson will stress to the students the importance of working together to solve a problem.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
By Amy Taylor.
River fish trap
River fish trap
A bamboo fish trap is placed at a rapid in the river where fish flow in. The mouth of the trap is made in such a way that fish cannot swim back out. Traps used to be a common method of river fishery in land-locked Nepal, but lately a decline in the number...
Format: image/photograph
Edenton National Fish Hatchery
Take a tour of the hatchery and find out how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is helping to stock the lakes and rivers of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia with fish.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Fishing For vowels
This is an excellent hands-on activity in which the students actively participate in imagining a fishing trip. This lesson is designed to help students learn to recognize grade appropriate sight words. Students are expected to listen to a word and identify the short vowel sound heard.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
By Shannon Bradley.
Fishing for beginning sounds
This lesson introduces the beginning sounds for picture words.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
By Deborah Kirby.
Hanuman battles his half-mermaid son
In The Ramayana, page 5.12
Hanuman faces his mermaid son in battle, as seen on a mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple. On the right side, Hanuman, in his wide-legged stance, holds a sword in his left hand while he points his right index finger at his enemy. A fish-tailed creature,...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Dragon and fish
In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 10
Other animals in the assembly hall garden also symbolize qualities admired and desired by this Fukian Chinese community.
By Lorraine Aragon.
Women processing plates of fish on tables at fish market in Hoi An
Women processing plates of fish on tables at fish market in Hoi An
Dozens of women are busy processing plates of fish on long wooden tables at a fish market in Hoi An. Both young and old women work here. Most wear conical sunhats and casual work clothes, including loose blouses and pants.
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Fishing by net
In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 4
The net is suspended from poles during parts of the day to keep it untangled and allow boats to pass by safely. It then can be lowered into the water to catch fish at night or when conditions are optimal.
By Lorraine Aragon.
Lake Higgins Environmental Education Center
See a fish hatchery, take a guided nature walk, and see models of fish and animals found in the area, all at Lake Higgins and the Lake Higgins Environmental Education Center.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Biomagnification and bald eagles
In this activity, students will study biomagnification by using paper cutouts to represent food containing chemicals eaten by fish. The students will then repeat this activity but as an eagle collecting fish. The amount of chemicals taken in by each eagle will then be compared to amounts taken in by each fish.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
By Elizabeth Caveny, Janet Carson, Heather Subleski, and Jeannie Galluzzo.
Fishing boats
In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 3
These rowboats likely are used to transport baskets of fish from larger fishing boats back to the shore for processing and sale. They also now are used to row tourists around the harbor.
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman battles fish taking stone from Rama's bridge (Thai Ramayana mural)
Hanuman battles fish taking stone from Rama's bridge (Thai Ramayana mural)
Hanuman fights a large fish who is taking a stone from Rama's bridge to Lanka. Hanuman stands on the green fish's head as he pulls his upper jaw open to release the stone that the fish has seized from the bridge Rama's allies were building to get to Lanka....
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Large empty fish net suspended over harbor at Hoi An
Large empty fish net suspended over harbor at Hoi An
A large, empty fish net is suspended from poles over water in the harbor at Hoi An. The net may be stored this way during parts of the day to keep it untangled and allow boats to pass by safely. It then can be lowered into the water to catch fish at night...
Format: image/photograph
A million fish... Serving up exaggeration
Students will become familiar with the term "exaggeration" and how it can be used in stories to catch the reader's attention. Students will create narrative stories of their own using exaggeration.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
By Jennie McGuire.