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Science World Science World for grades 6–10 brings science to life with fascinating feature articles and hands-on activities that reinforce science concepts and help students build test-taking and critical-thinking skills. 
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Talking Science: Fascinating Fish
Watch the interview with a scientist, then virtually travel on a fieldtrip to the Congo River in Africa. Check out photos from the trip and don't miss the "Rough Waters" article from Science World.
Melanie Stiassny is an ichthyologist at the American Museum of Natural History. That means she's a scientist who studies fish. Find more science activities and resources: Science Explorations. And try museum activities at OLogy.
Watch the Talking Science video.
Watch Fieldwork With a Scientist video.
Melanie Stiassny
All Museum photos: ©AMNH/M.Stiassny
Articles
Rough Waters
Science World |
One of the world's most turbulent rivers is home to a wide array of fish species. Now, large dams are threatening their future.
by Tiffany Chaparro
Scholastic News Online | September23,2005
Coral reef fish are endangered, but a new protection group is trying to save them.
by Gail Hennessey
Scholastic News Online | April25,2008
Near a small island in Indonesia, divers have found a very unusual fish that has humanlike eyes that point forward on its very flat face!
by Laura Leigh Davidson
Scholastic News Online | March3,2009
What has bulging green eyes, a transparent head, and lives in the dark? It's Macropinna microstoma. Marine biologists discovered the fish in 1939, but until recently had no idea why its head is transparent.
The World's Smallest Fish?
by Ezra Billinkoff
Scholastic News Online |
February3,2006
A group of scientists claim to have discovered the world's tiniest fish.
Robofish
Scholastic News Online |
August21,2006
This is an article about a robotic fish at the London Aquarium.
Activities
Looking at the articles, pictures, and other materials in this Research Starter may give you more ideas about the study of oceans.
