Oceanography - Plankton - Invertebrates
| Oceanography In the Oceanography Lab, the ocean is the classroom as students and teachers spend an hour on our pier and float! While on the float, students will deploy oceanographic experiments to collect samples and check and test for currents, water temperature, wind, light spectra and visibility. Students will do a plankton tow to collect specimens to observe in the Plankton Lab.
California Science Standards
4th Grade: 3a,5c,6a,b,d
5th Grade: 3a,d,4b
6th Grade: 1a-e,2c,d,4a,b,7a
7th Grade: 4f,6e,f
9th-12th Grade: B/LS 6d; ES 3a,b,f,5d,g,7a; I&E 1a-d,l
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| | Plankton Lab Using the sample they collected on the float, students use Video Microscopes to observe and identitfy live plankton! Plankton is plants and animals that drift with the current. Although plankton comes in all sizes, most is microscopic and it ranges from eggs and larvae to fully matured organisms. At the end of the lab, instructors also lead students in a discussion of the food web -- of which plankton act as the base -- and some effects pollution has on the world's oceans. California Science Standards
4th Grade: 2a,b,3a,d
5th Grade: 2f,3a,6a
6th Grade: 4a,5a
9th-12th Grade: B/LS 6d; ES 7a
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All Marine Science Activities (PDF) | Invertebrate Lab Sea Urchins, Anemones, Sea Hares, Sea Cucumbers, Sea Stars and a host of other local invertebrates are available to view and touch in this lab, always a student favorite! Our large touch tank is well stocked with a number of these animals without backbones, including members of the phyla Porifera (Many Pores), Cnidaria (Stinging Cells), Echinodermata (Spiny Skin), Annelida (Segmented Body), Mollusca (Soft Body) and Arthropoda (Jointed Foot). Other tanks in this lab house lobster and octopus. Through close student examination of these animals, instructors facilitate discussions of classification, species identification, adaptation and natural history.
California Science Standards
4th Grade: ab,3a
5th Grade: 3a,6a
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