Curated OER
Salt Water Revival
Students produce a high tide. In this Marine Biology lesson, students visit a tide pool to investigate the creatures response to changes in the tide. Students discuss the results of their experimentation.
Curated OER
Starfish Project
Pupils discuss ocean waters, tides, tide pools and the animals which live in the tide pools. They practice the push and pull method with a chink of clay to create a starfish from clay. They apply texture and decorate the starfish with...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Timing the Tides
Have you ever been to a tide pool during low tide? Some intertidal animals in the low tide zone are left in a tiny pool of water when the tides go out. Other intertidal animals that live in high tide zones may be left to dry out during...
Other
Intertidal Zonation
Site provides users with a guide to tidepooling adventures along the Mendocino Coast. Users may visit each intertidal zone and observe the various organisms that live there.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Cabrillo Natl Monument/tide Pools Windows to the Sea
National Park Service page about the plight of the owl limpet, a small fish resident of Southern Californian tide pools
BBC
Bbc Nature: Wildlife: Rockpools
Learn all about the world of rockpools and discover what lives there and where you can find them through sounds, pictures, descriptions, and external links.
Other
California State Parks: Parks Online Resources: Lessons: Tide Pool Ecology
A three-lesson unit on tide pools, including a videoconference component with a park ranger at Crystal Cove State Park in California and curricular materials: activities and worksheets, PowerPoints, videos, and tide pool life fact cards.
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Gulf of Maine Aquarium: Tidepool: Window Into the Sea
A nice description of the type of life in the waters of a tidepool.
Other
Natural Perspective: The Animal Kingdom: Starfish
Info page of sea star inhabitants of tide pools.Includes excellent photography
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Marine Biology
Learn about marine biology, life in the ocean. It defines marine biology and provides links to games, stories, videos, and hands-on activities on the topic.
University of California
Earthguide: Tide Pool Zones (Diagram)
Look at the twenety-two marine life species in the Southern California Tidepool. An image library lets you see where the specific species live.
Text Project
Text Project: Fyi for Kids: The Tides [Pdf]
This FYI for Kids (Volume 5, Issue 3) focuses on the tides. It explains the pull on the earth by the sun and moon and how the tides go in and out.
Other
Puget Sound Shorelines: Beaches Tide Pools
Washington State's Dept of Ecology website provides a brief description of a tide pool, it's inhabitants and tips on examining them. Related links.