A Trip to the Beach?

Students research sea life using laptop computers. In this sea life instructional activity, students participate in a field trip to the beach and enter observations into their laptop computers. Students classify shells and sea life.

Young scholars investigate the characteristics of the beach environment and explore beach zonation. After gathering samples from different areas of the beach, young scholars discuss how the beaches work and the characteristic of each...

Students explore biology by participating in an organism identification activity. In this beach field trip activity, students identify the different areas of the beach in which organisms reside and discuss the differences between high...

How do the oceans and Great Lakes influence weather and climate? Part three of a seven-part series about salt and freshwater examines the impact large bodies of water have on the skies above us. Included in the lesson is a study of...

Learners investigate human impact on coastal environments. In this coastal environment instructional activity, students observe human impact on coastal environments. Learners sort, classify, and chart marine debris collected on a local...

Students investigate the environment by participating in a class trip. In this pond ecosystem lesson, students define a list of vocabulary terms associated with ponds such as invertebrate and metamorphosis. Students attend a field trip...

Take a field trip to a location where water and land meet to study patterns of sediment organization in wet habitats: river or ocean beaches, sand dunes, tidal marshes, the edge of a pond, or a woodland stream. Small groups collect pairs...

Students take a field trip to the beach and, in groups, collect samples of sea life. They use laptops to classify what they find and develop computer-generated tables and graphs.

After reading the article "Fun, and Risks, at the Beach in Tel Aviv," learners consider eight related questions. They'll answer who, what, when, where, why, and how about the risks several Palestinian women took as they snuck over the...

While plastics don't biodegrade, they do photodegrade, creating issues in Earth's oceans. The final video in the Healthy Oceans series explains why plastic in oceans causes so many issues. the narrator explains the impact of plastic...