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Intertidal Zone Food Web Lesson Plans
From Food Webs In South Carolina Salt Marsh to Barnacles: Harder than Cement, find teacher approved intertidal zone food web lesson plans that inspire student learning.
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Students investigate a salt marsh. Then using a teacher provided information sheet, they take notes of information to be used to create a graphic organizer of a food web. The web is written on the worksheet and the students answer questions that are provided.
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- 4th Grade
Students examine the challenges facing organisms living in an intertidal zone. Working in groups, they design organisms from common materials that exhibit adaptive features. After discussing the organisms, they can modify them to increase the odds of survival.
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- 6th - 9th Grade
Students participate in an activity in which they explore the various zones of the ocean. They clean up a mock oil spill and discuss the effects an oil spill has on each of the ocean zones.
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- 7th - 9th Grade
Students work as a team of abalone taxonomists who examine and classify abalones based on their shell characteristics of the four most common species. They also study the visible details of each species shell, make notes and eventually write a careful taxonomic key to identify the for different pictures.
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- 9th - 12th Grade
Students outline a scenario demonstrating ecosystem interdependence. They explain the effects of this change according to the food web. They give a positive example such as increased rain and have the students call out answers to your questions about the possible effects of increased rain.
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- 5th - 6th Grade
Students investigate deep-sea habitats. They define key vocabulary terms, conduct research on a deep ocean habitat in small groups, identify six organisms from their assigned habitat, and prepare an information card for each organism.
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- 6th Grade
Students examine the topic of oceans in this twelve lesson unit. Ocean layers, tides, waves, currents, and marine life are probed through hands-on experiments, note taking, graph interpretation, and research.
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- 6th Grade
Students continue their examination of the state of Connecticut. After taking a field trip, they identify the types of birds, plants, invertebrates and vertebrates who make their home in the salt marshes. In groups, they identify the types of organisms that cannot live or function without the presence of another organism. They research ways humans are destroying the marshland and compare aerial photographs and topographical maps.
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- Kindergarten - 4th Grade
Students analyze sample organisms and write down their characterisitics. They identify the organisms using a dichotomous key. Then they create their own organisms and give them characteristics. They create dichotomous keys which will be used by their classmates to identify the new organisms.
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- 4th Grade
Students watch the movements of the complex animal hidden inside the tiny barnacle shells. This lesson allows students to study the behavior, adaptation, and larval stage of the barnacle.
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