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K-12 Resources
The Chesapeake Bay, an imperiled natural resource of national importance, provides a special opportunity to engage the interest of students. Maryland Sea Grant offers a variety of useful and engaging online instructional strategies about marine and coastal science and its application in the Chesapeake Bay region. Some lessons were written by school teachers from Maryland and other states.
Because coastal science is an interdisciplinary enterprise, these resources offer educators a proven tool for teaching effectively about core issues in the sciences.
Interactive Instructional Strategies
- Aquaculture Education (Aquaculture in Action)
- Biofilms and Biodiversity
- Eastern Oyster Education
- Spotted Salamander Symbiosis
5E Instructional Strategies
With support from Maryland Sea Grant, teachers from across Maryland and other states have written instructional strategies that meet the widely accepted “5E” instructional model for science. The lessons encourage students to develop inquiry and critical thinking and to learn about the process of science. Strategies include:
- American Chestnut Education
- The Case of Disappearing Blue Crab
- Eastern Oyster Education
- The Effect of Tides and Elevation on Wetland Plant Communities
- Fish Oil, Really?
- Oyster Behavior in the Larval Stage
- Spotted Salamander Symbiosis
- Zebra Fish as a Model for Muscle Development
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Leone Yisrael is a cephalopod-loving scuba diver, cook, and loves to try new activities. She conducts genetic analysis and fieldwork at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center through the Coastal Disease Ecology Lab.
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Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
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