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Homes Heating Up- A Hermit Crab Investigation

Overview

In this lesson, students will conduct an investigation to discover how the behavior of hermit crabs change as water temperature changes.

Goals

Students will understand and practice the steps of a science investigation through an investigation about hermit crabs’ reaction to changing ocean temperature. Students will understand that as ocean temperatures increase some animals will adapt and some will

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Antarctic
Less than a week
Elementary and Up
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Jumping Into Warming Seas

Overview

This lesson introduces students to the impacts of increasing ocean temperatures on marine life. Through this kinesthetic activity, students will learn more about marine ectotherms and what researchers in Antarctica have learned so far about how increasing temperature in Antarctic waters will affect their growth. Through the elaborate section of the activity students will connect what they learned about

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Antarctic
Less than a week
Middle School and Up
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Sausalito educator heads to Antarctica on climate change research expedition

Article in the Marietta Times in Marietta, Ohio about Amy Osborne's upcoming journey to Antarctica to study nudibranchs and sea spiders.

Amy Osborne on Rodeo Beach with a pipe cleaner sea spider announces her Antarctica depature date
Amy Osborne on Rodeo Beach with a pipe cleaner sea spider announces her Antarctica depature date

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Antarctic
n/a
All Aged
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Water is Life

Overview

This lesson introduces students to krill, their importance in ocean ecosystems, and the physical structures that make up the krill body. The students will then use the principles of a "floater" species and design their own krill, hopefully having a class competition to see who can build a better krill.

Objectives

Students will understand the importance of krill in

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Arctic
Less than a week
Elementary and Up
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Rings of Life

Overview

Rings of life is a comparative lesson allowing students to investigate growth rings in walleye Pollock from the Bering Sea and Ponderosa Pine trees.

Objectives

Students will be able to compare and contrast growth rings on fish and trees, showing just one of the tools scientists use to monitor the health of different ecosystems. Students will also be able

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Arctic
Less than a week
Elementary and Up
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  • Lesson (4)
  • Article (1)

Region

  • Antarctic (3)
  • Arctic (2)

Grade

  • Elementary and Up (3)
  • All Aged (1)
  • Middle School and Up (1)

Related Members

  • (-) Amy Osborne (3)
  • (-) Jillian Worssam (2)

Expeditions

  • High Arctic Change 08 (1)
  • (-) Thermal Sensitivity of Embryos and Larvae of Antarctic Marine Ectotherms (3)
  • (-) Bering Ecosystem Study 08 (2)

Completion Time

  • About a week (1)
  • Less than 1 period (1)
  • (-) Less than a week (4)
  • (-) n/a (1)

Topic

  • Polar Science (3)
  • Polar Careers (2)
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  • (-) Life Science (4)
    • Climate Change (2)
    • Ecology (2)
    • Oceanography (2)
    • Organisms and Their Environments (2)
    • Tools and Methods (2)
    • General Life Science (1)
    • Regulation and Behavior (1)
  • (-) Environmental Studies (2)
    • General Environmental Studies (2)
  • (-) Archaeology and Anthropology (1)
    • Climate Change (1)

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