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Students use iMovie to produce an audio-visual introduction to the echinoderm family of sea urchins and starfish. It is multi-level in thinking and curriculum and focuses on inquiry and sustainability. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students explore the lives and habitats of various species of sea urchins and starfish. Information gained is displayed in a visual format utilizing video clips, narration, and the four learning styles. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 9th
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Students watch a slide show presentation of a Coral Reef and discuss its inhabitants. They make a coral reef cake demonstrating the layers and components using different foods. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students investigate oceans and ocean life. They analyze maps, listen to stories and poems, create a cut-away ocean display, write an ocean haiku, explore various websites, and role-play oceanographers. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students listen to their teacher read Eric Carl's "A House for Hermit Crab." They orally answer questions throughout the story and make predictions. Students color pictures of sea animals that are attached to a large picture of a hermit crab and displayed. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 5th
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Students are introduced to the topic of sea otters. Viewing videos, they identify the different types of otters and where they are located. Using torn paper, they create their own paper sea otter. They also read books on the topic as well. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students observe how to spawn male and female pencil sea urchins. They mix together the sperm and ova from the live sea urchin to observe and record the events occurring in the control and experimental groups for fertilization. Thus, investigation to the use of fertilized sea urchin's ova as a bioassay for differing pH levels is explored. Emphasizing critical thinking skills to examine organisms used in research and environmental concerns is enhanced by the participants. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students begin by using clay to model fertilization and early development of sea urchins and chordates. They move on to mixing live sea urchin sperm and ova together to observe, diagram and record events occurring in fertilization and development over a 1-2 day period. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students complete two labs. They observe the fertilization and development of sea urchin and zebrafish embryos. They examine the similarities and differences in the development of an invertebrate vs. a vertebrate animal. Full Review »
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- 11th - Higher Ed
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Students explore the process of evolution. They examine examples of how homeotic genes may work and obtain gametes. Using a microscope, students observe the fertilization of sea urchins. They video tape the process and write a presentation. Full Review »