by Leigh Lubin | Aug 6, 2025 | Educator Resource
Lessons designed to bring contemporary research and authentic data into the classroom. Data Nuggets feature a scientist role model and the story of what inspired their research. Students are guided through identifying hypotheses and predictions, visualizing and...
by Leigh Lubin | Apr 9, 2019 | Educator Resource
3 minute video that shows the diversity of planktonic life that are protists and introduces key types of protists and their natural history.
by Leigh Lubin | Apr 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
In this unit from the Alaska Seas & Watersheds Curriculum, students investigate marine and intertidal food webs, then collect and observe plankton, and observe food web interactions during a beach field trip. After the field trip, students observe plankton using...
by Leigh Lubin | Feb 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
Lesson plan for classroom and field-trip based activities that introduce students to the community-based research on Bidarki chitons (Katharina tunicata) and the different factors that impact Bidarki abundance, distribution, and size. Includes a field trip for...
by Leigh Lubin | Feb 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
Lesson plan for introducing and practicing methods used in beach sampling/monitoring activities. Could be used for terrestrial ecosystems as well.
