Beach Contamination
Students are challenged to find and remove a baking soda contaminant from a container filled with damp sand.
KELP Setting: Inside
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
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.
