Design Challenge
Seas of Green - Designing a Plankton
Credit
Ocean Exploration Trust
Objectives & learning outcomes
Students will
- learn about plankton from reading, a teacher presentation, or personal research.
- demonstrate knowledge examining a food web that relies on plankton.
- design plankton with structures to prevent it from sinking to stay in the sunlit prime-plankton habitat of the ocean surface. Construct a model of that plankton with provided supplies.
- present their plankton design sharing key adaptations.
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