Students learn about the amazing adaptations of salt marsh organisms such as salt hay, cord grass and mummichogs, as well as how salt marshes form, what an estuary is, and why salt marshes and estuaries are of vital ecological importance. Describe some structural and behavioral adaptations that allow organisms to survive in a changing environment. Analyze how the finite resources in an ecosystem limit the types and populations of organisms within it. Describe various mechanisms found in the natural world for transporting living and non-living matter and the results of such movement. The primary focus of Marine Lab is for students to become acquainted with the adaptations and classification of intertidal organisms such as sea stars, urchins, lobsters, periwinkle and barnacles.
Students then view plankton samples on a projecting microscope.
Compare systems of classifying organisms including systems used by scientists. Describe some structural and behavioral adaptations that allow organisms to survive in a changing environment. Students will have a chance to explore the woods at dusk, and, weather permitting, get a chance to look at stars through our telescope. Describe some structural and behavioral adaptations that allow organisms to survive in a changing environment. Describe the motions of moons, planets, stars, solar systems, and galaxies.