Curriculum 1

Life in the Intertidal


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Lesson 1 • The Intertidal Zone

  • Tides
  • Intertidal zonation
  • Animals that live there
  • Strategies for survival
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Lesson 2 • Plankton

  • Phytoplankton – importance of plankton
  • Zooplankton – temporary and permanent zooplankton
  • Energy conversion – sunlight into food
  • What eats plankton?
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Lesson 3 • Getting Food

  • Different ways that intertidal animals get food: scavengers, grazers, filter feeders & predators
  • Food capture mechanisms
  • Examples of different animals and their adaptations for feeding
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Lesson 4 • Food Chains and Food Webs

  • How food chains and food webs work
  • Plankton as an essential element
  • Food energy flow from one living creature to another
  • Key elements of food chains using examples such as herring
  • Difference between food chains and food webs
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Lesson 5 • Marine Animal Life Cycles

  • Life cycles of marine animals can have several stages
  • Metamorphosis
  • Use crabs as the example
  • Larval stages of a crab and adaptations for survival
  • How crabs grow from juveniles to adults – moulting
  • Different types of crabs
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Lesson 6 • Habitat

  • What is a habitat?
  • Elements of habitat – water, food, shelter & space
  • What intertidal creatures need to survive
  • Interactions between animals and their habitat
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Lesson 7 • Gifts from the Sea

  • How do people use the sea?
  • Focus on seaweeds and their different uses for humans
  • Compare seaweed structure to land plant structure
  • Use of seaweed in different food items
  • What seafood do people eat from the sea and how do they collect it?
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Lesson 8 • Ocean Pollution

  • What is pollution and how does it get into the ocean?
  • Concept of biodegradable
  • Look at different materials that pollute the sea and how long they last
  • How does pollution affect different animals?
  • Stewardship activities to look after the ocean
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