STANDARD - CONSTANCE CHANGE AND MEASUREMENT
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Dead Zone Model - COSEE Coastal Trends 
Lesson PlanSummary
Students add fertilizer to pond, river, or estuarine water and compare results to a control treatment with no added fertilizer to simulate how algal blooms and dead zones occur in coastal bodies of water due to nutrient pollution.
Concept: Humans and the coast
Coastal areas and humans are particularly interconnected.
Education Standards
Coastal areas and humans are particularly interconnected.
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90+ minsWhat Affects Dead Zones? - COSEE Coastal Trends
Summary
Students explore scenarios in real datasets to investigate how physics and biology interact to produce Dead Zones of various sizes and durations.
Concept: Humans and the coast
Coastal areas and humans are particularly interconnected.
Education Standards
Coastal areas and humans are particularly interconnected.
Education Standards
Pilbara to Mars: Are We Alone? - NASA and Macquarie University
Lesson PlanSummary
Using data collected from Pilbara, Australia, students study the age of the fossilized stromalites of the region.
Coral Reefs: Photoquadrats on a Transect - COSEE Coastal Trends and National Park Service
Summary
Students will use pictures of a coral reef transect to graph the percentage of cover for that section of reef.
Concept: Coastal ocean life
Coastal ocean systems provide important habitats for organisms.
Education Standards
Coastal ocean systems provide important habitats for organisms.
Education Standards
