Ask and discuss with students how OPTIONAL HIGHER ORDER increasing carbon dioxide levels, and THINKING ACTIVITY therefore increasing acid levels, affect animals in the ocean, specifically Warmer absorbs less carbon animals with shells. What are their dioxide thus disrupting the carbon cycle predictions? Have students note this. even further. Ask students to create their own experiment to demonstrate Activity Rubber egg experiment – the fact that warm water absorbs less carbon dioxide than cool normal ocean Read Resource 9 Rubber egg – temperatures. experiment. Review with students the scientific Discuss how the experiment relates to vocabulary pertinent to this lesson (See investigating the impacts of increasing Resource 1 Word bank for suggested carbon dioxide levels in the ocean. – terms). Set up the experiment. It will be Students add their learning and reviewed at the beginning of the next reflection to their science journal. (See lesson. If you wish to, you may use or for Resource 2 Student reflections alter and use Resource 3 - Investigation – examples of sentence starters you can planner with students for this use to guide student reflections). experiment. Opportunities to monitor student learning Resources Lesson 8 and 9: How might sea level rise affect Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes coral growth on the reef? Suggested learning sequence Introduction Climate change and the Reef – Read Reef Beat 2009 - Climate Change and the Reef (Poster 3) which is about Examine results from the rubber egg climate change impacts on the Great experiment (set up in lesson 7). Were Barrier Reef. students’ predictions correct? Discuss with the all the different Work through the questions and impacts climate change will have on the discuss what acidification means Reef. for animals with shells on the Great Barrier Reef. You may choose to watch Explain to students they are going to the GBRMPA video acidification ‘Ocean investigate how increasing sea levels Hermie the hermit crab’ (See – ‘useful might impact the reef. Ask students for websites’ for the link). their ideas and discuss them. Coral growth Activity –
Ask and discuss with students how increasing carbon dioxide levels, and therefore increasing acid levels, affect animals in the ocean, specifically animals with shells. What are their predictions? Have students note this. Activity – Rubber egg experiment Read Resource 9 – Rubber egg experiment. Discuss how the experiment relates to investigating the impacts of increasing carbon dioxide levels in the ocean. Set up the experiment. It will be reviewed at the beginning of the next lesson. If you wish to, you may use or alter and use Resource 3 - Investigation planner with students for this experiment. OPTIONAL HIGHER ORDER THINKING ACTIVITY Warmer absorbs less carbon dioxide thus disrupting the carbon cycle even further. Ask students to create their own experiment to demonstrate the fact that warm water absorbs less carbon dioxide than cool normal ocean temperatures. Review with students the scientific vocabulary pertinent to this lesson (See Resource 1 – Word bank for suggested terms). Students add their learning and reflection to their science journal. (See Resource 2 – Student reflections for examples of sentence starters you can use to guide student reflections). Opportunities to monitor student learning Resources Lesson 8 and 9: How might sea level rise affect coral growth on the reef? Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes Suggested learning sequence Introduction – Climate change and the Reef Examine results from the rubber egg experiment (set up in lesson 7). Were students’ predictions correct? Work through the questions and discuss what acidification means for animals with shells on the Great Barrier Reef. You may choose to watch the GBRMPA video ‘Ocean acidification – Hermie the hermit crab’ (See ‘useful websites’ for the link). Read Reef Beat 2009 - Climate Change and the Reef (Poster 3) which is about climate change impacts on the Great Barrier Reef. Discuss with the all the different impacts climate change will have on the Reef. Explain to students they are going to investigate how increasing sea levels might impact the reef. Ask students for their ideas and discuss them. Activity – Coral growth
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