Ages 9 to 12 Archives

Ooey Gooey Animal Guts

Students identify what kind of consumer their marine animal is by examining the prey items they find in a Jell-O filled “stomach”.

Students will learn about the importance of oysters to estuarine ecosystems and to the community.

A fun game teaching students how fish and other ocean creatures camouflage into their surroundings.

Students create various types of plankton with craft materials and race them in a large container of water. Slowest plankton wins!

A hands on activity that illustrates how marine creatures have adapted to survive the extreme conditions between the rocky shoreline tide marks

An interactive activity demonstrating the effects of ocean acidification on shelled marine organisms, the ocean food web and to humans.

Students figure out what season it is based on maps of sea surface temperature and phytoplankton growth.

Students build a globe to demonstrate a mass coral spawning event.

A game of Jenga that demonstrates our impact on a baleen whale’s food chain.

Learn about the anatomy of coral and the symbiotic relationship between corals and zooxanthellae by building an edible coral polyp.