Predicting Growth
This lab is designed to give students a “hands-on” experience to help answer the question: How can you determine where in your environment you might find microorganisms?
Lesson Plans: 2008
Microbes and Climate
This activity is meant to provide students with an understanding of how microbes play a role in the climate system, from the formation of the atmosphere to current climate dynamics to the role of microbes in climate change.
The Good, the Bad, and the Bountiful
This lesson uses a dramatization game to provide an introduction to microbes—what they are, what they do, where they are found and how they affect humans.
BATS & HOT DOGS
This activity allows students, working individually or in small groups, to retrieve information from pre-assigned web sites, retrieve real-time data to compare nitrate and phosphate concentrations at two open ocean monitoring sites, and construct an Excel graph using data from two different sites. Each student or group will retrieve data for a specific time frame […]
The Blue Mud Shrimp Mystery
The ghosts of Halloween are past, but the mystery of these zombie shrimp will help students learn about the effects of invasive species on ecosystems.
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Research programs at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) encompass the entire ocean, from the surface waters to the deep seafloor, and from the coastal zone to the open sea. The need to understand the ocean in all its complexity and variability drives MBARI's research and development efforts.