Connect your class live to the Alaskan Sea-life Center.  Take a walk through the Alaskan intertidal zone pools and meet face to face with their tough and mysterious local invertebrates.

Miles of rocky beaches, big tides, and waters that teem with marine life all make Alaska a great place to go tide-pooling. In Southeast Alaska alone, scientists have counted at least 170 species of macroscopic (able to be seen with the naked eye) invertebrates in the intertidal zones, and doubtless many more exist.

Year Level: 3-4

Duration: 1 hour

Yes

No prior knowledge needed.

In this video conference students will:

• Discuss how natural tidal processes cause changes to Earth’s surface
• Group living things based on observable features and distinguish them from non-living things
• Describe relationships that assist the survival of living things

In this video conference students will:

• Explore the ecosystems of the tidal pools at the Alaskan Sea-life Center
• Interact with the presenter from the Alaskan Sea-life Center

Science – Science Understanding

• Living things have characteristics that distinguish them from non-living things and things that were once living, including fossils (VC2S4U01)
• Consumers, producers and decomposers have different roles and interactions within a habitat; food chains can be used to represent feeding relationships (VC2S4U03)