Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. North Carolina marine education manual. The guide contains Unit Three, a collection of marine b653oriented materials that explore coastal ecology. These materials were designed to supplement the recommended program features of the North Carolina state curriculum guide.
Content focuses specifically on North Carolina but is adaptable to other regions.
The introduction contains a table that relates activities to skills and program features recommended by the North Carolina Department of Education. Skills and features include process skills, manipulative skills, organizational skills, creative skills, communicative skills, and measurement systems. A chart presents the instructional goal with related concepts and behavioral objectives. The instructional goal is to relate habitats of marine organisms to their adaptations. Topics covered in the guide include the physical characteristics of coastal habitats including water depth, salinity, and wave energy, and coastal organisms living as benthos, nekton, and plankton, nekton, free swimming animals including bony fish, marine mammals, turtles, some mollusks, sharks and rays, North Carolina's intertidal organisms and their adaptations to the environments they occur in, plankton, and coastal organisms and habitats that function together to form an ecological system.