Queen Conch Lesson Plans

The Queen Conch lesson plans are designed to be used with the education modules and are separated into five different categories: History and Socioeconomics; Geography, Habitat, and Biology; Fisheries Management; Aquaculture; and Aquariums in the Classroom. Each lesson has several activities for the students, as well as supplemental information and activity sheets

The Queen Conch Lesson plans are designed for middle school and high school students. Each lesson lists the integrated subjects, essential skills, Sunshine State Standards, National Science Education Standards, and duration. Please use each lesson as a guide, as you build your own conch curriculum for the classroom.

The lesson plans are available here electronically or a printed and bound version of these lessons is also available for purchase from the CHN Headquarters, please contact Amber Shawl at ashawl@hboi.edu or (772)465.2400 x578 if you are interested.

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Lesson Plans
• Lesson 1.1 - History and Socio-economics
• Lesson 2.1 - Geography and Habitat
• Lesson 2.2 - Life Cycle
• Lesson 2.3 - The Early Stages
• Lesson 2.4 - Anatomy of a Conch
• Lesson 3.1 - Fisheries Management
• Lesson 4.1 - Queen Conch Aquaculture
• Lesson 5.1 - Aquariums in the Classroom

Supplemental Information Sheets:
• No. 1 - Queen Conch Vocabulary List
• No. 2 - The Arawak Indians
• No. 3 - History of the Queen Conch Fishery
• No. 4 - How are Queen Conch Used
• No. 5 - Where are the Conch?
• No. 6 - Habitat Requirements
• No. 7 - The Queen Conch Life Cycle
• No. 8 - Ocean Babies
• No. 9 - External Anatomy of a Conch
• No 10 - Internal Anatomy of a Conch Key and Diagram
• No. 11 - Queen Conch Fisheries Management
• No. 12 - Marine Protected Areas
• No. 13 - Time to Move
• No 14 - Aquaculture in the World
• No. 15 - Experiments for the Classroom
• No. 16 - Aquarium Supplies
• No. 17 - Aquarium Water Quality

Supplemental Activity Sheets
• No. 1 - Queen Conch Pretest
• No. 2 - Animals as Tools
• No. 3 - Fishing Methods
• No. 4 - The World's Oceans
• No. 5 - Conch Family Tree
• No. 6 - What's for Dinner?
• No. 7 - Water Quality
• No. 8 - Life Cycle Diagram
• No. 9 - Frog Life Cycle
• No. 10 - Mosquito Life Cycle
• No. 11 - Salmon Life Cycle
• No. 12 - Butterfly Life Cycle
• No. 13 - Breeding Behavior
• No. 14 - Egg Math
• No. 15 - Hairy Beasts
• No. 16 - Structure and Functions
• No. 17 - Caught in the Current
• No. 18 - Aquaculture and Hydroponics
• No. 19 - Data Collection Worksheet

Games and Activities
• Word Finds
• Mazes
• Queen Conch Jeopardy
• Think Tanks
• Bingo
• Queen Conch Limerick

These lessons were created with the support of the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund. The Conch Heritage Network would also like to thank the following individuals for their time creating and reviewing the lessons: Susie LaBarca, Gretchen Kowalik, Jennifer Roupp, and Kelly Riley.