Curated OER
Sea Level and the Terrapin
Learners study the habitat of the terrapin. In this terrapin lesson, students create a diorama of the habitat of the terrapin. Learners also simulate how it would look if people moved into the area and how predators can threaten terrapin...
Curated OER
Getting Food
Students complete activities to learn about the ocean food web. In this ocean life instructional activity, students discuss how the tides affect feeding, learn about filter feeders, grazers, predators, and scavengers. Students then group...
Curated OER
Getting Food
Students explore seashore ecosystems. In this marine animal biology lesson, students sort photographs of various sea creatures according to their eating habits and discuss each animal's identifiable traits. Students draw and...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Modeling Trophic Cascades
In the ecological game of who eats who, one small change can have a big impact! Individuals create food chains in an array of ecosystems, then determine what happens to organisms in the chain when one organism changes its feeding...
Curated OER
Life in the Kelp Forest
Young scholars research and create a marine food web to learn about plants and animals in a kelp forest. In this marine food web lesson, students draw lines between kelp forest predators and prey and show the flow of energy in the food...
Curated OER
Species Interactions
Students study the scientific concepts of biodiversity and conservation through the use of basic equations of population growth and hands-on experiments/simulations. The lesson includes a take-home assignment which can be used for final...
Curated OER
Don't Cry Over Spilled Oil
Students study the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill while evaluating oil spill clean up activities. They discover the long term impact can have on an ecosystem by completing this experiment.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Sea Otter (Enhydra Lutris)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the sea otter. Discusses where they are found, physical features, diet, predators, conservation status, the different species, social behavior, and mating behavior.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Sea Otter
Here you can find a great printout of a sea otter as well as detailed information about the animal. Learn what a sea otter looks like, what kind of fur they have, what they eat, and who their predators are.