Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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+ More Get LessonEstuaries 101 is a series of curricular resources designed to help educators bring estuarine science into the classroom. All of these materials can be adapted to meet any grade level. The lessons and activities feature hands-on learning, experiments, fieldwork, and data explorations. Each lesson is bundled with all the necessary tools and resources to aid with classroom implementation.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students sort oyster reef organisms to identify the many types of organisms that live in an oyster reef and form the reef community. Students then ...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students engage in a role-playing activity to model different bird beaks. Students will see how differently shaped beaks are needed by birds to acq...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students will build a food pyramid to examine the flow of food energy through the estuary ecosystem by placing organisms in the correct order on a ...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students examine the form and function of different horseshoe crab anatomical features.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students research animals that live in mangroves and salt marshes. Students complete flash cards about the animals and think about how they are ada...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
NOAA Smart Buoys collect and transmit real-time weather, water conditions, and water quality data, as well as interpret key points along the John S...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students exhibit their understanding of how nonpoint-source water pollution enters the estuaries via the watershed by building a watershed model an...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students observe plankton and then construct plankton models that can be tested for their slowness in sinking. Then they build their own plankton n...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students participate in a role-playing scenario in which they trade estuary goods with a ship’s captain who travels around North America visiting d...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students focus on how everyone is responsible for protecting and maintaining the health of estuaries. The students read stories about three student...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students compare data (weather and geographic location) from two sources to characterize reserves. The students see that there are seasonal effects...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students examine sharks found in estuaries and identify features that make the sharks well suited to life in the estuary environment.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students read oyster abundance graphs to describe how young oyster abundance in Aransas and Copano Bays responded to short-term environmental chang...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students use their inquiry skills to explore the “jubilee” phenomenon found in Mobile Bay, Alabama. They will read a recent article about hypoxic e...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students will make a “human size” graph of tides on a classroom wall to understand variability of tides at different locations. Students will inves...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students take a short online quiz to check their initial estuary knowledge. Students examine Mobile Bay as an example of an estuary and then practi...
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Grades: 9-12
Students investigate the incredible biodiversity that exists in estuarine environments. They begin by exploring the Rookery Bay National Estuarine ...
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Grades: 9-12
Students investigate water quality parameters to study the nature of, and the cyclical changes inherent in, the chemistry of estuarine water. Stude...
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Grades: 9-12
Students learn about dissolved oxygen (DO) and its effects on life, with a focus on the chemistry. First, they are introduced to, and analyze data ...
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Grades: 9-12
Students investigate the nature of watersheds and their relationship to the dynamic changes that occur in estuaries because of drainage and runoff....
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Grades: 9-12
Students investigate how hurricanes can affect National Estuarine Research Reserve System estuaries. Students begin by studying the North Carolina ...
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Grades: 9-12
Students make a model of a pollution spill that occurred at Bangs Lake, a tidal lake within the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Mi...
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Grades: 9-12
Students investigate the range of conditions that selected animal and plant species need to survive in an estuary. They examine data for abiotic fa...
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Grades: 9-12
Students investigate landforms and features associated with estuaries. They begin by taking a journey down a river to an estuary system where the r...
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Grades: 9-12
Students learn about tides and salinity in estuaries. They observe time-lapse models of tides and salinity distribution in the York River, part of ...
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Grades: 9-12
Students investigate the range of conditions that selected animal and plant species need to survive in an estuary. They examine data for abiotic fa...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Lessons from My Reserve: This curriculum is intended to complement a visit to the Padilla Bay Research Reserve but is also appropriate for students studying estuaries anywh...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Lessons from My Reserve: Our goal for this site is to provide 5th-12th grade teachers with in-class and outdoors hands-on lessons for their students. Our vision for this pr...
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Grades: 6-8
Lessons from My Reserve: TIDES is a draft curriculum developed by the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve to assist middle school students and teachers in the ...
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Grades: 6-8
Lessons from My Reserve: The International Brant Monitoring Project Curriculum is a guide for classroom and field activities. The curriculum is used by middle school studen...
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Grades: 9-12
Lessons from My Reserve: The Bringing Wetlands to Market research studies located in Falmouth and Mashpee on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, examine the relationship between salt ...
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Grades: 9-12
Lessons from My Reserve: Students will work in groups to survey a mock, locally relevant, marsh habitat that includes dominant plant community types. Students will use elev...
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Grades: 9-12
Lessons from My Reserve: This interdisciplinary high school curriculum is designed to educate students about the valuable Tijuana River Estuary’s natural and cultural resou...
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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Lessons from My Reserve: These K-12 education resources provide students with hands-on, inquiry-based learning opportunities where the content is focused on estuarine habit...
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