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MICRO & MACRO ORGANISM LAB

After a day on the boat and in the intertidal zone get up close and personal with all the organisms collected.  Using field guides, dichotomous keys, and microscopes students examine and identify fish, invertebrates, zooplankton and phytoplankton.
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Class Goals:
  • Explore plankton using microscopes and understand how scientists define and classify plankton
  • Recognize plankton as a diverse group
  • Be able to ID major groupings using a plankton ID guide (both phytoplankton and zooplankton)
  • Understand that plankton are an important part of the aquatic food web
  • Organize the organisms that they have collected in phyla based on characteristic they observe
  • Understand how and why scientists classify organisms
  • Observe organisms, drawing them in their field journals and pointing out potential adaptations and how adaptation aid the organism in surviving
  • Use field guides to identify organisms 
 

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