This eight-page tabloid, funded through a Protect Our Reefs
grant made to the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce,
contains information on coral reef ecosystems, with quizzes, a
word search, and a word scramble! The Best of COSEE Hands-On
Activities offers ocean scientists simple, engaging, and easily
accessible hands-on activities that will make your presentations
to K-12 students, the public, or other non-science audiences
more effective. This collection was gathered from across the
COSEE Network, with each Center submitting their best hands-on
activities. Researchers at the Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission’s Florida Marine Research Institute
(FMRI) are on the edge of scientific discovery. They are working
to discover the mysteries of Karenia brevis (K. brevis), the
dinoflagellate responsible for many of Florida’s red tides.
Students will be able to do the following: Identify and describe
an organism that causes Red Tide Name three diseases caused by
harmful algal blooms (HABs) In thi