This assessment is to be used in conjunction with the lesson "Maigrating Mangroves and Marshes." In this lesson, students will consider climate change's potential impact on mangrove habitats. Activities include researching animals that live in salt marshes and using maps and data sets to investigate habitats and make predictions on how climate change is likely to affect the environmentally diverse mangrove habitat.

In this lesson, students will consider climate change's potential impact on mangrove habitats. Activities include researching animals that live in salt marshes and using maps and data sets to investigate habitats and make predictions on how climate change is likely to affect the environmentally diverse mangrove habitat.

Students will be able to describe major features of cold seep communities; list at least five organisms typical of these communities; infer probable trophic relationships among organisms typical of cold-seep communities and the surrounding deep-sea environment; describe the process of chemosynthesis in general terms; contrast chemosynthesis and photosynthesis; and describe at least five deep-sea predator organisms. Students will work in collaborative groups to research the ecology of cold seep communities and orally present their findings to the rest of the class. The teacher will also lead an effort to create a food web showing the ecological relationships of these communities.

In this lesson, students will use short video clips and other web resources to study the group of animals known as billfish and learn how ocean currents influence the eating habits of various fish. Students will also have the opportunity to shoot their own video to create a nature documentary to present in the classroom.

In this short video, students join Emily and Dr. Bronwyn Williams from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences as they head to three different North Carolina locations to explore the world of crayfish!

In this multimedia lesson, students learn about tides. Associated interactive activities include "Virtual Tidepool," where students explore a tidal pool habitat, "Predicting the Tides," where students consider factors that influence the tides, and "Life in the Intertidal Zone," where students learn about the specific habitats of the intertidal zones.

In this multimedia lesson, students learn about deep-sea coral reef ecosystems. Associated interactive activities include "Exploring Ocean Zones," where students use drag and drop techniques to label various ocean zones and a "Coral Crossword."

In this multimedia lesson, students learn about deep-sea ecosystems. Associated interactive activities include "Hydrothermal Vent Food Webs," where students reconstruct a hydrothermal vent fauna food web on a digital diagram and "Evolutionary Puzzle," where students investigate how evolutionary relationships support the theory of plate tectonics.

In this multimedia lesson, students learn about the deep-sea zone. Associated interactive activities include "Sunglasses in the Sea," where students analyze photographs to compare polarized and unpolarized views of marine life and evaluate how organisms uitlize tricks of light and lenses to communicate, hunt, and hide and "Bioluminescence - A Light in the Darkness," where students view a series of videos and answer associated questions.

This series of lessons focuses on food production in ocean ecosystems. In Lesson Plan 15, "Being Productive in the Arctic Ocean," students will investigate how organisms make food, either through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. They will also identify factors that limit primary productivity and explain their effects. In Lesson Plan 16, "Chemosynthesis for the Classroom," students will observe the development of chemosynthetic bacterial communities in black mud and explain the relevance of chemosynthesis to biological cold-seep communities. In Lesson Plan 17, "Biochemical Detectives,' students will explore the energy-obtaining strategies of cold-seep organisms and study actual data from biochemical studies involving these organisms. Students will write brief essays summarizing each lesson as assessment.

This assessment is to be used with the lesson "An Ode to the Oyster." In this lesson, students will investigate the biological and economical importance of oysters and the oyster reef. Activities will include identification of reef organisms, exploration of the anatomy of the oyster, and role-playing exercises as biologists.

This presentation is to be used with the lesson "An Ode to the Oyster." In this lesson, students will investigate the biological and economical importance of oysters and the oyster reef. Activities will include identification of reef organisms, exploration of the anatomy of the oyster, and role-playing exercises as biologists.

This supplemental material is to be used with the lesson "An Ode to the Oyster." In this lesson, students will investigate the biological and economical importance of oysters and the oyster reef. Activities will include identification of reef organisms, exploration of the anatomy of the oyster, and role-playing exercises as biologists.

This supplemental material is to be used with the lesson "An Ode to the Oyster." In this lesson, students will investigate the biological and economical importance of oysters and the oyster reef. Activities will include identification of reef organisms, exploration of the anatomy of the oyster, and role-playing exercises as biologists.

In this lesson, students will investigate the biological and economical importance of oysters and the oyster reef. Activities will include identification of reef organisms, exploration of the anatomy of the oyster, and role-playing exercises as biologists.

In this activity, students will play the parts of native plants, invasive plants, and herbivores in a game. They will quickly see the advantages that invasives have over natives. Students will experience the vulnerabilities of native species, such as competition, predation, and dependence on nutrients, water, and space.

Students explore the idea that energy is passed from one organism to the next in a food chain.

In this activity students will research ecosystems at risk and write a summary of relationships that are suffering or are causing problems in some of Earth's best known ecosystems.

In ths activity, students will plan and conduct an experiment to investigate what happens to a small ecosystem when you change one abiotic or biotic factor.

During this lesson students will be exposed the requirements of plants for growth. Students will have the opportunity to become familiar with each requirement for plant growth, and what effect that requirement has on the plant.