Learners examine a virtual tidepool. For this tidepools lesson, students examine samples of tidepool organisms and discuss their characteristics. Learners use the Internet to visit suggested websites on tidepools.

Students experience and test island biogeography ideas by comparing diversity and abundance of rocky inter-tidal patches. Working, in groups of three, they investigate rocks and creatures found in a tidepool. Lesson plan designed for...

In this science activity, learners examine a detailed picture of a rock pool (tide pool) and the many creatures that live in or near it. Students color the picture and try to identify the animals and plants.

In this starfish reading comprehension worksheet, students read a short information text about starfish. Students answer 4 fill in the blank questions and color a large starfish picture.

Students discover the ocean life of the San Francisco Bay. In this ocean lesson plan, students take a Discovery Voyage of the Bay ecosystem through the Marine Science Institute. Also available are inland voyages, ocean labs, and tidepool...

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...

Students explore oceanography by completing science worksheets. In this tide pools lesson, students discuss the forces of the tide pools, the animals that live within them, and the impact they have on the rest of the ocean. Students...

What's the difference between behavioral adaptations and physical adaptations? Learn about the various ways that organisms adapt to their environment with a worksheet about the creatures of the Hudson River.

Second graders access prior knowledge of the rocky shoreline.  For this rocky shoreline lesson, 2nd graders create questions about the rocky shoreline. Students define vocabulary related to the rocky shoreline. Students...

Young scholars investigate tides and the land submerged under them.  In this intertidal field trip, Students visit the intertidal zone and observe the habitats and animals that live there.  Young scholars view the pools under...

Students discover that the Earth supports many different animal habitats. In this habitat lesson plan students research different habitats of the world. Students show how the animals in their habitat are adapted.

Students research the diverse animal and plant life that inhabit the intertidal zones along the Pacific rocky coast. As students progress through this lesson, they begin to recognize distinct behaviors, adaptations, and characteristics...

Students distinguish between invertebrate and vertebrate organisms while examining the zoological classes of a number of invertebrates. They illustrate a food web of these organisms and investigate the impact of humans on the oceanic...

Students collect snail shells, measure and record their lengths and if they are occupied by a hermit crab. They discover if their is a size difference between occupied and unoccupied shells.

A nice description of the type of life in the waters of a tidepool.

An excellent photo of a tidepool.

Site provides users with a guide to tidepooling adventures along the Mendocino Coast. Users may visit each intertidal zone and observe the various organisms that live there.

This site has a lesson plan to use to start a unit on biomes and animal habitats. This plan incorporates grasslands, temperate forests, tropical rainforests, deserts, polar ice regions, and tidepools.

National Park Service page about the plight of the owl limpet, a small fish resident of Southern Californian tide pools

Look at the twenety-two marine life species in the Southern California Tidepool. An image library lets you see where the specific species live.

Click on tide pools on the left hand menu to find a description of tidepools. Use the menu to navigate to other shoreline related topics.

Twenty great pictures of octopi from California. This site also offers up close pictures of invertebrates, squids, and tidepools.

Info page of sea star inhabitants of tide pools.Includes excellent photography

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