Inspiring Learning for Teachers & Students

Georgia Aquarium is committed to supporting educators by providing a variety of free teaching resources designed to inspire and engage students. Our educational materials include lesson plans, interactive activities, and engaging videos that bring marine science to life. Whether you’re teaching in the classroom or at home, our resources align with curriculum standards and offer exciting ways to explore the wonders of the ocean. Dive into our collection today and make a splash in your students’ learning journey!

Lesson Plans

Grades K-2
- Feature Fanatics – Students will match animals together by their physical features.
- Penguin Life Stages – Students will identify and build the life stages for African penguins.
- Walking into the Deep – Students will extend light visibility to the ocean zones and relate animals to their home zone in the ocean.
Grades 3-5
- Conservation Badge – Students will research conservation efforts of organizations toward specific animals. Students will also study and choose to implement methods of conservation that they can do themselves.
- Brook to Ocean – Students will create a model of a watershed and observe how watersheds contribute to an ecosystem. Students will also evaluate how pollution of any water source can affect an ecosystem.
- Flowing Landscapes – Students will determine physical changes in a landscape caused by waterways and will analyze satellite imagery of a region.
- Parts of a Food Chain – Students will conduct research to create a food chain from a specific environment. Students will also hypothesize what will happen if one element of their food chain is removed.
- BOEM Lesson plan – Students will plot longitude and latitude lines to determine the total number of manta rays tracked by acoustic tags.
Grades 6-8
- Filtration Sensation – Students will construct a device that has the ability to filter dirty water and distinguish important applications of water filtration.
- Oil Spill Impacts – Students will analyze the effects of human impact UMEs on the cetacean population in the Gulf of Mexico. Students will also identify what a UME is and its lasting significance on the environment.
- Current Convection – Students will produce an experiment demonstrating convection in water and test density levels.
- Sounds of the Ocean – Students will analyze marine mammal spectrograms and will graph marine mammal sound frequencies.
Grades 9-12
- Balancing the Ocean – Students will use stoichiometry to create a balanced equation.
- Echinodermata vs Mollusca – Students will identify anatomical features of sea cucumbers and nudibranchs.
- Ocean Acidification – Students will discover how increasing carbon dioxide amounts in the atmosphere impact acidification in the ocean. Students will also investigate the impacts that ocean acidification has on shell and skeleton building organisms.
- Sustainable Seafood – Students will construct a menu that will help ensure fish populations for generations to come. Students will also analyze resource availability and cost of obtaining fish.

Our Day to Day

There are many unique jobs required to keep Georgia Aquarium afloat, from animal trainers to chemists, graphic designers to nutritionists, and even accountants. Find your fins and dive into these interviews with our staff. Discover required degrees, certifications or other experiences that helped them land their dream job tidals!

Video Resources

STEAM Forward
Georgia Aquarium and Georgia-Pacific are partnering together on an exciting new video series called STEAM Forward.
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Deep Sea Learning Videos with Our Education Department

Our Education Department loves teaching, sharing, and showing real life scenarios that help students of all ages learn about the sea and its many creatures.

Episode 23: Tsunamis Part 2
Episode 22: Tsunamis
Episode 21: Alligators
Episode 20: Conservation and Preservation
Episode 19: Elemental Water, Part 2
Episode 18: Elemental Water, Part 1
Episode 17: Invasive Species
Episode 16: Gnarly Nudibranch
Episode 15: Shark’s Six Sense
Episode 14: Wildlife Bingo
Episode 13: Animal Behaviors
Episode 12: Mammal Madness
Episode 11: Edible Coral Polyps
Episode 10: Solutions to Pollution
Episode 9: Turtles Dig the Dark
Episode 8: Oil Spills
Episode 7: Turtle-y Awesome
Episode 6: Lights in the Ocean
Episode 5: Mangroves & Estuaries
Episode 4: How to Train Your Dolphin
Episode 3: Symbiotic Relationships
Episode 2: Blubber & Adaptations
Episode 1: Shark Diet & Dentition

Georgia Aquarium’s Adventurers Club
Join us for each new episode including fun and educational animated adventures with an expert who introduces alligators, whale sharks and sea lions with themes of research, conservation and animal care. You can also download coloring sheets from each episode.
Episode 1: Gator Talk with Ranger Nate
Episode 2: Whale Shark Research with Kelly and Dr. Al
Episode 3: Sea Lion Rescue with Cindy