A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Shark Researcher. Inside: 28 scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, an 18-word kid-friendly glossary, six hands-on activities (including a Fin ID Lab that uses the researcher's own photo-identification method and "The Numbers That Change Policy," where students turn statistics into evidence a town council would actually read — no fear language, no exclamation points), six extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections (math, science, social studies, ELA, visual arts, and SEL), and standards alignment with NGSS, Common Core, Social Studies, and Health/SEL. Designed to flex from a single-week career-exploration unit to a longer marine science or ocean-literacy integration — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the long hours watching the surface for a fin, the difference between fear and reverence in the presence of an animal older than the dinosaurs, the patience of planting a tag someone else will harvest, and the quiet courage of saying the truth out loud when the evidence is on your side and the feeling in the room is not. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on handling fear of sharks, the conservation crisis, and the eco-anxiety it can stir.