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Tide Pools

Creator: Kip Evans, Mountain and Sea Productions

Age Levels:
All ages
Instructional Time:
5 minutes
If you haven’t been to a tide pool lately, the central California coast boasts some of the finest anywhere on earth Tide pools are important to hundreds of plants and animals, especially young organisms Learn about nudibranche... (read more)

If you haven’t been to a tide pool lately, the central California coast boasts some of the finest anywhere on earth. Tide pools are important to hundreds of plants and animals, especially young organisms. Learn about nudibranches, sea stars, shore birds and some of the historical characters that first studied these rocky pools.

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Standards

  • Next Generation Science Standards
    • Types of Interactions
    • Relationship Between Energy and Forces
    • Wave Properties
    • Structure and Function
    • Growth and Development of Organisms
    • Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms
    • Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
    • Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience
    • Biodiversity and Humans
    • Weather and Climate
External Repository:
California MPAs
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