KELP

A creative game that shows the effects of longline fishing on the health of the ocean ecosystem.

Students create mini-coastal environments and introduce nutrients to see what happens in the estuaries where fresh and salt water meet.

A hands on activity that illustrates the different sources of sand including biological, geological and man-made.

Students create a simple scientific instrument and learn about the role of sediment in their local waters.

Students create a watershed model using a plastic shower curtain, a spray bottle and themselves!

Using materials and sand found on the beach, kids can create pieces of art

Kids will discover their natural surroundings by playing an interactive game of bingo with items that can be found at your beach or shoreline

A hands on activity that illustrates how marine creatures have adapted to survive the extreme conditions between the rocky shoreline tide marks

Students create a "blubber glove" to mimic the importance of blubber to whales living in frigid water.

Students build monoculars to view their surroundings from the prespectivie of a whale. 

A tag inspired game that demonstrates how plastics and the chemicals in plastics are biomagnified to reach our dinner plates.

This activity uses an interactive narrative to illustrate the different sources of pollution, historic and modern, to a body of water.

In this simulation, students are challenged to find and remove a baking soda contaminant from a plastic shoebox filled with damp sand

Students create a cutout model of a clam to investigate the anatomy and physiology of these animals.

Students build a globe to demonstrate a mass coral spawning event.

Students will learn about the importance of oysters to estuarine ecosystems and to the community with live oysters. 

Students figure out what season it is based on maps of sea surface temperature and phytoplankton growth. 

Students use thier own exhaled breath and a red cabbage pH indicator to visualize how our oceans are becoming more acidic.