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- 5th - 12th
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Students study the relationship of form and function in the marine environment. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students participate in an experiment to determine the relationship between global air circulation and oceanic currents. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students collect, interpret, and apply data rerlated to the mapping of marine habitats. Working in pairs, they engage in an interactive acrtivity by tracking each other over a pre-defined area. They monitor foraging behavior over candy trails on a spatial scale. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine how sand is formed by erosion and that it can be moved by streams, rivers, and ocean currents in this unit of lessons. They study waves and currents, and structures that change how sand moves by creating story charts, postcards, and participating in a role play. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students conduct Internet research of the living organisms in national marine sanctuaries, and the resources protected in the sanctuaries. Students gather information about each of the sanctuaries and make an oral presentation and poster of their findings. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students engage in a lesson which serves as an introduction to the ideas and implications of animal tracking. They monitor animal foraging behavior on a spatial scale. The students break into groups and track each other's movements as they move through a pre-determined course. Students also engage in a creative design activity, focusing on how they would design a tag for a marine animal of their choice. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students reflect and investigate how a seacoast is the dynamic border between two worlds-the terrestrial and the marine. In the realm of life science, we can observe marine animals that inhabit the shoreline and tidepools. In the realm of Earth science, we can observe how the ocean's currents, waves, and winds sculpt the shoreline, alternately carrying off and depositing sand. Full Review »
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- 8th - 10th
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Students identify producers and consumers and construct a food chain from four marine ecosystems. They describe the delicate balance among organisms in each environment. In groups, students discuss the human activities that upset the balance in marine environments. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students define predator. They are able to describe the marine reef ecosystem. Students demonstrate understanding of how a disruption to the food chain can have a ripple effect through an ecosystem. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students conduct a debate about the impacts of establishing a Marine Protected Area. They research areas that have already been designated MPAs and then play the roles of different groups of stakeholders for the debate. Full Review »
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