Tide pool habitat animals PowerPoint, Google Slides, word wall and printables

Explore a tide pool habitat without getting your feet wet with this tide pool safari. This resource introduces students to some of the animals that make their home in a tide pool through an engaging interactive presentation (PowerPoint and Google Slides) and no-prep printables (word wall and 3 worksheets).

Use this resource to support a habitats unit, to prepare students for a trip to the coast, or to compare/contrast tide pool animals with another habitat.

Tide pool safari interactive presentation (18 slides)

This is included as both a PowerPoint and a Google Slides document.

This resource should be used in presentation/slide show mode to work effectively. After a short introduction, you get to a slide showing a cross-section of a tide pool. Click on each creature in the tide pool and it will take you to a slide telling you what it is, and some information about it! There are 10 creatures in total.

There are questions to discuss together and once you have looked at a creature, you can easily click back to the tide pool to choose the next one. Animals can be accessed in any order.

The presentation is partially editable (text in white boxes can be changed) but images and titles are fixed in place.

Tide pool vocabulary word wall (18 words over 6 pages)

18 words to print, cut, and display with color images.

Student worksheets

3 options for student printables are also included:

• Draw some animals in the empty tide pool
• Cut and paste label a crab activity
• Blank tide pool animal fact sheet (included with and without lines). Students will need to do their own research for this activity.

A UK version of everything is included which uses the word rockpool instead of tide pool.