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 NGSS: Adaptable

Concepts

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

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Additional Tags

science

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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