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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify and explore marine protected areas, and examine how they contribute to natural, economic, and cultural resources. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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students explore the important scientific concepts, as well as other important topics surrounding fish morphology, their defense strategies, general fish characteristics, and their ecosystems. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students conduct three different hands-on experiments that demonstrate some of the threats to marine ecosystems. They discuss their findings with the class and ways to combat the problems. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students explore the impact of commercial fishing on the marine environment. They participate in three activities which help them grasp the concepts of overfishing, habitat destruction, and by-catch and what each does to populations of fish. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Student perform observations of live reptiles to find out about a family of marine reptiles. They answer a series of questions and discuss their answers with the rest of the class. They handle model specimens of the marine reptile they observed. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students participate in an activity in which plain and peanut M&M's are used to represent a community of fish. They role-play different scenarios that depict fishing practices by eating or discarding certain M&M's. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students review the three different marine environments: coral reefs, open ocean and bottom ocean. They create large dioramas of these environments using larger moving and appliance boxes. Full Review »
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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students count nematodes, cestodes and crustaceans on approximately one-hundred and fifty fish. They fill out autopsy reports for external and internal parasites then complete and discuss guide questions to make inferences about parasite evolution. Full Review »
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- 1st - 5th
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Students explore the concept of bioluminescence. They hypothesize what it might be like in the deep ocean and describe what it's like to see in the dark. Students brainstorm how marine animals might cope in the dark ocean and view pictures of bioluminescent animals. They create a collage or write a story showing what it might be like to dive into the deep ocean and view bioluminescent animals. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students are explained that Antarctic Nototherioid fishes survive harsh conditions. These conditions would kill almost any other temperate zone organism. They work in small groups to investigate a typical temperate marine fish. Students compare their observations and the class' data with data given about a typical Nototherioid fish. Full Review »
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