Students discuss the value of eelgrass as habitat for crabs, seahorses, etc. Show jar of clear, clean water and jar of muddy water. Demonstrate in darkened room using flashlight projecting through clean water onto wall and not passing through muddy water. Narrate and direct action of play. Pass out craft materials.
Students assemble a paper collage of a blue crab in an eelgrass environment with sun overhead.
The jimmy crab and the big fish ate them. The eelgrass died. The sunshine did not go through the water. No, soil is valuable on land. Soil was knocked off the land by the wind and rain.