Students will have personal experience of increasing pressure. Those experiences can be extended to understand animals at different depths. Then they will use MBARI’s Deep Sea Guide to find animals, and put them on a vertical crosscut of the bay.

Topics

Authors

Megan McCall & George Feldman

Additional Resources

Videos are included on the Deep-Sea Examples guide

Scientific paper on:

New bone eating worms   https://www.mbari.org/new-osedax-species/ 

Virtual reality and deep-sea exploration https://www.mbari.org/underwater-virtual-reality/ 

Deep-Sea Buffet https://www.mbari.org/squid-graveyard/ 

Underwater Field Guide for Big Sur https://www.mbari.org/illustrated-field-guide-shows-deep-sea-animals-off-the-big-sur-coast/

 

Next Generation Science Standards

Crosscutting Concepts
  • Scale, proportion, and quantity
Core Ideas
  • PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter
  • LS2.C: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience
Practices
  • Developing and using models
  • Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

Ocean Literacy Fundamental Concepts

  • 5.D: The ocean is three-dimensional, offering vast living space and diverse habitats from the surface through the water column to the seafloor. Most of the living space on Earth is in the ocean.