Just like tidepools, pond life is living "on the edge." Ponds are pockets of water bounded by land. Lots of pond dwellers spend their time entirely in the water, but quite a diversity of life can be found along the boundaries between water and air and water and land. Each living thing — fish, snail, lily pad, frog, water strider, or turtle — is interconnected and makes a unique living in this freshwater habitat.

You can now search for Habitat specific web links through the Resource Materials search. Click on "Resource Materials" in the right-hand menu.

To find general web links about ocean sciences, to the Leader section of the MARE web site.

The MARE Kindergarten curriculum includes themes of animal homes and animal adaptations.

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Whether you visit a real or a virtual kelp forest, balance the need to identify what your students see with the need to observe it. Help them get more out of seeing an organism than just its name!