SUBJECT - ECOLOGY
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Why have seagrasses disappeared? - COSEE Coastal Trends 
Lesson PlanSummary
Students use the internet or printed articles and video clips to research why seagrass numbers have declined.
Coastal areas and humans are particularly interconnected.
Education Standards
45 minsPilbara 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: Draw a Coral Reef - COSEE Coastal Trends and National Park Service
Summary
Students will draw a coral reef based on the prior knowledge.
Coastal ocean systems provide important habitats for organisms.
Education Standards
Coral is an Animal: Polyp Pictures - Cosee Coastal Trends and National Park Service
Summary
Students use a variety of pictures of different coral species to understand the diversity of corals.
There is a high diversity of life in the ocean with a wide range of functions and interactions.
Education Standards
Wacky Watersheds - COSEE Coastal Trends
Summary
Students construct a scaled model of a watershed to demonstrate the effect of various types of land uses on water quality.
Coastal areas and humans are particularly interconnected.
Education Standards
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.
Coastal ocean systems provide important habitats for organisms.
Education Standards
Size Selective Predation - COSEE Coastal Trends
Summary
Students explore the mechanisms of prey size and the method of how predators capture prey.
