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Invertebrates and Ocean Mixing - De-Natured Instructional VideoInvertebrates and Ocean Mixing - De-Natured Instructional Video
Publisher
Nature League
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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Instructional Videos
Media Length
8:41
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Duration
10 mins
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2018
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Invertebrates and Ocean Mixing - De-Natured

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It's time to mix things up! Introduce biology scholars to the latest topic in marine research—invertebrates! The third installment in a five-part series of Invertebrates lessons explains the hypothesis that tiny, migrating shrimp are responsible for the distribution of heat and nutrients in Earth's oceans.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

invertebrates, brine shrimp, oceans, ocean currents, climate change, density, scientific research, saltwater, animal migration, sunlight, daylight, controlled experiments, making observations, zooplankton

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Include the versatile video in a lesson about climate change, ocean mixing, or invertebrate animals
  • Have pupils research the shrimp in the video to learn more about their place in the food chain

Classroom Considerations

  • Learners should have some prior knowledge of the many systems affected by ocean mixing
  • This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

  • The video is a great way to interject published scientific research into the classroom in a student-friendly manner
  • Defines and displays words that may be unfamiliar to scholars

Cons

  • None

Common Core

SL.6.2 SL.7.2 SL.8.2 SL.9-10.2 SL.11-12.2

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