Rocky Intertidal: Desiccation Lab – Grades 1-5
Creator: San Diego MPA Collaborative , Wild Coast
Part of a complete MPA Outreach Toolkit featuring conveniently packaged MPA curriculum, materials, and related activities for educators. Designed to improve MPA education, outreach, compliance and stewardship among students.
Standards
- Next Generation Science Standards
- Analyze and interpret data to make sense of phenomena using logical reasoning.
- Represent data in tables and various graphical displays (bar graphs and pictographs) to reveal patterns that indicate relationships.
- Ask questions that can be investigated based on patterns such as cause and effect relationships.
- Ask questions that can be investigated and predict reasonable outcomes based on patterns such as cause and effect relationships.
- Use a model to test interactions concerning the functioning of a natural system.
- Adaptation
- Biodiversity and Humans
- Natural Resources
- Human Impacts on Earth Systems
- When investigating or describing a system, the boundaries and initial conditions of the system need to be defined.
- When investigating or describing a system, the boundaries and initial conditions of the system need to be defined and their inputs and outputs analyzed and described using models.
- Models (e.g., physical, mathematical, computer models) can be used to simulate systems and interactions—including energy, matter, and information flows—within and between systems at different scales.
- The shape and stability of structures of natural and designed objects are related to their function(s).
Subjects
- Science Life Sciences
- Ocean Literacy Principles Ocean Literacy Principle #5: The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
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- Ocean Literacy Principles Ocean Literacy Principle #6: The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected.
- Science Scientific Investigation and Application
Age Levels:
6-11
Grade Levels:
1-5
Instructional Time:
5 hours