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Below are suggested activities for students after they have visited the
Sea World UCLA. Click on the lesson titles below or support materials
to download. For your convenience, all files are in pdf format.
Plankton
Plankton: Background for
the Teacher, by Dr. William Hamner, Ph.D
This short text provides a background for teachers or high school students
on the characteristics of plankton.
Plankton Vocabulary
A short vocabulary list with definitions referring to the words used in
Plankton lessons and text.
A Closer Look at
Plankton
Recommended for elementary to middle school level students. This lesson
provides the students with the opportunity to classify plankton based
on different criteria. The lesson teaches the students about branching
diagrams and dichotomous keys as ways to organize information.*
Plankton image cards
Classifying Plankton worksheet
Plankton Identification sheets (1, 2, 3, 4)
Building a Plankton Net
Recommended for middle school to secondary level students. This series
of lessons has adaptations for elementary students build in. This is a
series of lessons including: building the net, using the net to collect
plankton samples, identifying plankton once it is collected, and calculating
the volume of water that the plankton sample derived from.**
Zooplankton Identification
Guides (1, 2,
3, 4, 5)
Phytoplankton Identification Guides (1,
2, 3)
Funding for development of this curriculum has come from the National
Science Foundation and the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Project.
*Appreciation is expresssed to Mrs Stephanie Zierhut and Ms Stacy Sinclair for development of this material
**Appreciation is expressed to Ms. Noriko Yamaguchi and Ms. Stacy Sinclair for develpment of this material.