Participants will be introduced to bioluminescence, basic zones of the ocean, where bioluminescence is used in these zones, and how bioluminescence works and is used.
Participants will become a Sunflower star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) and must battle the tides, natural predators, human impacts, and disease in order to eat, reproduce, and survive in the intertidal zone.
Students are marine animals in the food chain in this active tag game. These “marine animals” eat food that is contaminated with mercury to discover what bioaccumulation means.
This is a quick, silly game that allows students to use vocalizations to simulate seal or sea lion pups and mothers trying to find each other in a rookery.