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”.
KELP Preparation Needed: Yes
The World is YOUR Oyster
Students will learn about the importance of oysters to estuarine ecosystems and to the community.
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 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
Sea Level Rise
Which type of ice causes a rise in sea level when it melts: formations on land, like glaciers, or formations in the water, like icebergs?
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.
