God’s Creation of Sea Creatures Lesson 2: Jellyfish

This is a Christian Home School Lesson Series for 4-5 year olds on God’s sea creatures!

Lesson 2 is on Jellyfish.

 

Purpose: To explore and know more about God’s creature called jellyfish.

Book(s) read:

Martha Rustad Jellyfish.

 

Other tools:

Laptop (to show Youtube videos)

Measuring Tape (to show size)

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn general knowledge about jellyfish
2. Learn the vocabulary concerning jellyfish
3. Illustrate the jellyfish.
4. Reinforce the truth that God is Creator

 

Lessons

1. Learn general knowledge about jellyfish

Tool 1: Read Martha Rustad’s Jellyfish.

Tool 2: Questions

What did you learn about jellyfish from the book?

What colors of jellyfish did you see in the book?

What was your favorite picture of jellyfish?

Tool 3: Further period of instructions

Jellyfish are found in every ocean.

Jellyfish floats using their body’s motion.

Jellyfish has no brains, eyes and hands.

Some jellyfish has body parts that can sense light.

Jellyfish eat plankton, fish eggs, small fish and other jellyfish.

Jellyfish can be as small as 1 millimeter and up to 6.6 feet long.  (Use measuring tape to show long that is)

Tool 4: Videos

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Q9knJlhww
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOf2RRmSkgQ
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIBfyOyiDto
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-irjnOIjNcs

2. Learn the vocabulary concerning jellyfish

(Note:  Write down the vocabularies on a white board)

1. Tentacle: “A long, flexible arm of an animal; jellyfish sting prey with their tentacles” (Martha Rustad, Jellyfish, 22).
2. Sting: “To hurt with a venomous tip” (Martha Rustad, Jellyfish, 22).
3. Predator: Animals that hunt other animals for food.
4. Prey: Animals hunted by other animals for food.

3. Illustrate the jellyfish

Have four blocks to draw in.

First block draw a jellyfish.

Second block draw and label a tentacle only.

Third block draw and label jellyfish “eating.”

Fourth block draw a jellyfish in its environment

Switch paper and see the similarities and differences in one another’s drawings.

4. Reinforce the truth that God is Creator

Tool 1: Bible

“God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.” (Genesis 1:21)

In the context this is the fifth day of God’s creation (Genesis 1:23).

Note God’s creation included “every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind.”

This of course would have includes jellyfish.

Tool 2: Questions

            How do jellyfish show the awe of God’s creation?

 

Review: Share what you learn today.