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Life in the Intertidal
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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