Ages 9 to 12 Archives

Shower Curtain Watershed

Students create a watershed model using a plastic shower curtain, a spray bottle and some chairs!

Students are challenged to find and remove a baking soda contaminant from a container filled with damp sand.

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.