by Alice | Oct 10, 2024 | Educator Resource
NCCOS is looking for new volunteers across the U.S. to monitor coastal or freshwater environments for potentially harmful phytoplankton. If you are available and interested in sampling your local waters twice each month, examining it through a microscope, and...
by Alice | Oct 10, 2024 | Educator Resource
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) negatively impact organisms in a variety of ways that can range from cell and tissue damage to organism death. Although toxin production is one of the major mechanisms by which the blooms cause such severe damage, there are several other...
by Alice | Oct 10, 2024 | Educator Resource
Students will devise their own experiments to test the effects of nutrients on algal growth.
by Alice | Oct 10, 2024 | Educator Resource
Students will understand how the unique structure of plankton allows them to stay near the surface of the ocean, and create their own organisms in the quest for neutral buoyancy.
by Alice | Oct 10, 2024 | Educator Resource
While examining ocean caught plankton under microscope, the students will be able to chart the seasonal development of larval invertebrates and monitor for potentially harmful phytoplankton.
