EDIS (Aug 2015)

Third Grade Manatee Curriculum—Lesson 9: Manatees Need Warm Water to Survive

  • Maia McGuire,
  • Ruth Francis-Floyd

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2015, no. 5

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This 10-page fact sheet is the ninth lesson of the Third Grade Manatee Workbook series. This curriculum provides a series of individual lessons covering manatee biology and ecology, as well as highlighting some of the ways that humans impact and can protect manatees. The curriculum has been written at a third-grade level but can be adapted for older or younger students. Written by Ruth Francis-Floyd and Maia McGuire, and published by the Veterinary Medicine—Large Animal Clinical Sciences Department, UF/IFAS Extension, July 2015. (Photo credit: Keith Ramos, USFWS) VM212/VM212: Third Grade Manatee Curriculum—Lesson 9: Manatees Need Warm Water to Survive (ufl.edu)

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