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- 7th - 8th
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Students describe typical marine food webs, and explain why food is generally scarce in the deep-ocean environment. They discuss reasons that seamounts may support a higher density of biological organisms than would appear to be possible. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students use a simple method to collect living microorganisms from natural and/or artificial environments and develop skills in microscopy, observation, drawing, speculation, hypothesizing, oral presentation, and raising questions. Full Review »
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- 6th - 10th
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Students examine the amazingly simple but complex characteristics of an Echinoderm. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students read the article, A Robin's Menu Through the Seasons, taking notes and underlining key words and phrases. They create a math grid from the reading, research the animals in the article, and develop various writing assignments. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students study chemotropic sybioses and chemotropic nutrition. In groups, they complete a Chemotrophic Species Investigations (CSI) Worksheet. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students complete a variety of activities as they examine the ethics of acquiring and distributing fish as a food source. They touch on the ethics involved in genetically modified salmon, as well. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students read about Californian ecosystems emphasizing five native habitat types including: woodlands, Redwood forests, Kelp forests, salt marshes and chaparral. They play a game that matches life forms to habitats using clues. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students examine the differences between the geologic eras. Using this information, they relate it to the appearance of different organisms in a fossil record. They use their chairs to represent specific events in the geological history of the Earth. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate the effects of institutions on human behavior. They explore various niches that are encountered as man exists in the ecosystem and discuss both the effects of heredity and the environment on human behavior. They provide a framework which can be related to our everyday ideas for our changing behavior. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students examine how naturally occurring microorganisms break down oil. They model various oil spill scenarios and test the ability of naturally occurring microorganisms to break down oil. The observe the physical changes of oil during bio-degradation. Full Review »
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