Curated OER
Sea Level and the Terrapin
Students study the habitat of the terrapin. In this terrapin lesson plan, students create a diorama of the habitat of the terrapin. Students also simulate how it would look if people moved into the area and how predators can threaten...
Curated OER
Getting Food
Learners complete activities to learn about the ocean food web. In this ocean life lesson, students discuss how the tides affect feeding, learn about filter feeders, grazers, predators, and scavengers. Learners then group the animals...
Curated OER
Getting Food
Learners explore seashore ecosystems. In this marine animal biology activity, students sort photographs of various sea creatures according to their eating habits and discuss each animal's identifiable traits. Learners draw...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Modeling Trophic Cascades
In the ecological game of who eats who, one small change can have a big impact! Individuals create food chains in an array of ecosystems, then determine what happens to organisms in the chain when one organism changes its feeding...
Curated OER
Life in the Kelp Forest
Young scholars research and create a marine food web to learn about plants and animals in a kelp forest. For this marine food web lesson, students draw lines between kelp forest predators and prey and show the flow of energy in the food...
Curated OER
Species Interactions
Students study the scientific concepts of biodiversity and conservation through the use of basic equations of population growth and hands-on experiments/simulations. The lesson includes a take-home assignment which can be used for final...
Curated OER
Don't Cry Over Spilled Oil
Students study the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill while evaluating oil spill clean up activities. They discover the long term impact can have on an ecosystem by completing this experiment.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Sea Otter (Enhydra Lutris)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the sea otter. Discusses where they are found, physical features, diet, predators, conservation status, the different species, social behavior, and mating behavior.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Sea Otter
Here you can find a great printout of a sea otter as well as detailed information about the animal. Learn what a sea otter looks like, what kind of fur they have, what they eat, and who their predators are.