Build a marine food web – Student Activity
In this activity, students build their own food web using images of organisms from the marine ecosystem. This activity can be done indoors on paper or outdoors on a tarmac surface using chalk.
Teaching and Learning Approaches
Student activities are the main feature of this collection, along with a variety of resources for teachers to use in exploring Life in the Sea.
List of Teaching and Learning Approaches resource items
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Bird hotel – Student Activity
In this activity, students take on the role of migrating birds. By participating in a physically active simulation, they experience the journey from summer breeding grounds to winter feeding grounds. As the activity progresses different scenarios affect these areas and the ability to successfully migrate.
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Nutrient impact experiment – Student Activity
In this activity, plastic bottles are used to simulate the link between land and sea. Students investigate some of the potential impacts increased nutrient use on land can have on the marine environment.
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Estuary metaphors – Student Activity
In this activity, students discuss how a variety of everyday objects can serve as metaphors for the important characteristics and functions of estuaries.
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Fisheries role-play – Student Activity
In this activity, students take on the role of a stakeholder in New Zealand fisheries. In their role, they decide whether they agree or disagree with the statement ‘there are plenty of fish in the sea’.
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Develop a classification system – Student Activity
In this activity, students work in small groups and come up with their own classification system for a number of marine organisms.
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Ocean acidification and eggshells – Student Activity
In this activity, students observe how chicken eggs can be used to simulate the potential effects of increasing ocean acidity on marine animals with calcium carbonate shells or skeletons, for example, bryozoans and cockles.
