Grade Level:
Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School
Subject Areas:
Science, Fine Arts, Language Arts
Setting:
Classroom, Field Trip Sites
About the Trunk:
While participating in the Climate Kids activities of art, science and storytelling, students will learn about the importance of marine ecosystems for the environment and understand how these ecosystems are being affected by climate change, ocean acidification, and ocean warming.
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Students will:
Ocean Acidification:
Brainstorm and explore the direct and indirect impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on marine and terrestrial species
Explain the importance of a stable marine ecosystem for the environment
Analyze marine specimens that utilize calcium carbonate to build their shells and determine impacts of ocean acidification
Discuss possible adaptations or solutions animals will undertake for survival
Develop solutions to reduce impacts caused by increased human activities
Create and design artwork to portray impacts on or solutions for marine resiliency
Model healthy and unhealthy marine environments and explain how ocean acidification will affect shelled organisms and carbonate structures, like coral reefs
Experiment with carbon dioxide to identify pH and temperature changes and their effects on carbonate objects
Ocean Warming:
Learn about the tools scientists use to measure ocean temperature
Brainstorm and explore the direct and indirect impacts of climate change and ocean warming
Explain the importance of a stable marine ecosystem for the environment
Perform a class experiment about heat capacity
Analyze how marine organisms are impacted by changing ocean conditions
Interpret graphical data about ocean warming
Develop solutions to reduce impacts caused by increased human activities
Create and design artwork to portray impacts on or solutions for marine resiliency
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