Fishing in your classroom
What is a fin for, and where is it?
Click any of the 14 numbers on the fish. Then switch to “Name it” and see what stuck. No timer, no account, nothing to install.
Four traits every fish shares
- a flexible backbone
- cold blood
- fins
- gills
A whale has a flexible backbone, but it is warm-blooded and breathes with lungs. A frog has a backbone and cold blood, but it breathes with lungs too. Neither one is a fish.
← Click a number on the fish.
For the teacher
- Project the board and let pupils come up and click. “Explore” gives the answer; “Name it” asks for it.
- The adipose fin is the one worth stopping on: science does not know what it is for, and the board says so. A class that learns a science can say “we do not know” has learned something real.
- The four shared traits — backbone, cold blood, fins, gills — sort a whale and a frog out of the fish family in under a minute.
- Every fact on the board links to the government document it comes from. Nothing here was written from memory.