In this activity, students play a game that simulates the carbon cycle. During the activity students will compare the carbon cycle before and after the industrial revolution.
Students will investigate and discuss problems associated with invasive species. They will then conduct research and prepare a written case study on a specific assigned invasive aquatic species, including information about how it was introduced, impacts associated with its occurrence, and possible control measures.
Students will explore the geologic history of the Earth and create a timeline.
Students will review and discuss the importance of coastal resources, then work collaboratively in conducting research to learn about specific restoration efforts that have taken place to restore damaged resources. Each group will summarize their assigned case study and lead a discussion about resource restoration.
Students will investigate how nutrient enrichment in aquatic habitats can result in hypoxic or anoxic conditions and design an experiment to test their hypothesis.
Students will identify specific types of wetland habitats and land uses in a watershed and explain how data on chemical contaminants, land uses and habitat types can be integrated to develop restoration plans for environmental resources damaged by pollution.
Students will explain how satellite imagery can be used to monitor land use change and construct a change table to summarize land cover information. They will then use a change table to make inferences about land use changes in a coastal region.
Sudents define, compare and contrast the terms "risk" and "vulnerability," and determine the relative risk from natural hazard events in a given community.
Students complete several activities to understand and demonstrate the Earth's energy budget - the flow of energy from the Sun to the Earth and the outward flow from the Earth.
Students will describe at least five sources of nonpoint source pollution runoff and identify sources of contamination. Students will also discuss how bioassays may be used to measure toxicity, and describe three examples. Then they will describe and discuss actions that can be taken to reduce or eliminate contaminated runoff.
Students will observe the effects of the layering of warm and cold water that is more or less saline than the normal.
Students examine some of the causes and consequences of global climate change.
Students will identify and explain five ways that coral reefs benefit human beings and three major threats to coral reefs. They will also identify and discuss actions that can be undertaken to reduce or eliminate threats to coral reefs.