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Pedagogic content
- Ecosystem
- Biodiversity
- Food webs, food chain
- Posidonia sea grass meadows
- Gorgonian gardens
- Endemic species
- Environmental sustainability
- Natural heritage
Pre-requisites
New competencies targeted
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
- Investigate marine food webs and trophic levels
- Perform a research on a marine organism, and fit their organisms together in a class-created food web showing a balanced marine ecosystem.
- Investigate the importance of posidonia sea grass
- Learn the definition of endemic species
DESCRIPTION
IMPLEMENTATION:
(In the classroom)
Students working in groups will create their own marine food web for two representative Mediterranean marine ecosystems. The Posidonia oceanica sea grass medows and Gorgonian gardens, or deep-sea sponge fields
Each group will be responsible for gathering information and photos or videos about the two different habitats and the organisms that live in them
Students, in pairs, use the school computer lab and/or provided Internet resources to research their organism and complete their essay
Students create posters or ppt presentations by using various multimedia to present their results
All the posters /ppt are displayed for the whole school community
Additional Info
| Type of Activity: | Exhibition, Information research, Project, Publication |
| Target Audience: | From 13 years old |
| Place: | Classroom, ICT laboratory |
| Material need: |
Pc, mobiles, tablets, photos, access to internet , posters, printer |
| Duration of Activity: |
IMPLEMENTATION:
1 - 3 hours |
| Authorship and ressources conditions to use: | HCMR (Education Unit)No authorization required |
| Links: |
http://www.fao.org/3/a-i7256e.pdf https://oceana.org/sites/default/files/reports/Corals_Mediterranean_eng.pdf |
| Note by Author: | None |
| Topic of this Experiences: | Biodiversity |
| Additional resources: | Pdf Version |