Curriculum 2

Intertidal Habitats


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Lesson 1 • Structure and Behavior of Marine Animals

  • Relationship between structure and behavior of intertidal animals and their survival adaptations
  • Retreat into shell
  • Detect and flee enemies
  • Maintain body armour
  • Seek shelter
  • Camouflage
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Lesson 2 • Shoreline Habitats

  • Identify different types of habitat (rocky shore, sandy beach, eel grass bed)
  • Small scale habitats (tide pools, on or under rocks, in crevices, among seaweed)
  • Intertidal zones (spray, high tide, middle tide, low tide zones) How is each area different? What animals live where?
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Lesson 3 • Mud Flats

  • Characteristics of a mud flat, creatures that live there and their adaptations
  • Limiting factors such as low oxygen, fresh water, pollution, salinity, no hard surfaces to attach to
  • Adaptations of animals that live in mud flats
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Lesson 4 • Sandy Beach

  • Limiting factors such as no hard places to attach, crashing surf, abrasive sand
  • Types of animals that live there
  • Adaptations of sandy beach animals and plants
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Lesson 5 • Rocky Shore

  • Locate and identify where different animals choose to live and predict why they live there
  • Limiting factors such as temperature, drying out, salinity, competition for food and space
  • Adaptations of rocky shore animals and seaweed
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Lesson 6 • Eelgrass Bed

  • Characteristics of an eelgrass bed, the creatures that live there and their adaptations
  • Limiting factors such as many predators
  • Why an eelgrass bed is considered a nursery and why so many animals live there
  • Contrast a protected sandy beach to exposed sandy beach
  • Who lives there
  • Adaptations of eelgrass community members
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Lesson 7 • Marine Animal Movement

  • Comparison of the way different animals move
  • Adaptations, ways of moving, reasons to move
  • Fish vs. whale
  • Use contrasting examples such as sea star, clam, crab and marine worm
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Lesson 8 • Beach Etiquette

  • Understanding of beach etiquette when exploring the intertidal
  • Care and handling of marine animals
  • Needs and wants (of people and marine animals)
  • To collect or not to collect?
  • Guardianship of the shore “What can I do?”
  • Stewardship
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Field Trip • Focus on an intertidal area near each school

  • Observe and identify marine animals and habitats on a nearby beach
  • Review etiquette
  • Explore, locate and identify marine animals
  • Look for clues ie. a sea star leg, a clam shell with a hole drilled into it

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