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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”.

Whale of a View

With small mirrors and a paper towel tube, students build monoculars to view their surroundings from the perspective of a whale.

Whale Feeding

An activity that demonstrates how baleen whales, such as Right Whales, use skim feeding to capture their prey.

Whale Blubber

Students create a “blubber glove” to mimic the importance of blubber to whales living in frigid water.

How to Hide in the Ocean

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

Sinking Races

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

Drying Out on the Rocky Shore

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

Acidic Ocean

Students use thier own exhaled breath and a red cabbage pH indicator to visualize how our oceans are becoming more acidic. 

Osteoporosis of the Sea

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

Carbon Cycle Game

Students cycle as carbon between the living and nonliving parts of the ecosystem.