Dishpan Tidepool

Overview

Students create a model tide pool to discover how tides affect rocky shore animals. As they slowly add water to their model, students observe that various animals in the tide pool are both underwater and exposed to air for various lengths of time. They then make waves and consider how animals may survive the changing tides and wave force.

Focus Question: What happens to rocky shore animals when tides and waves change?
Grades: PreK-2
Location: Indoors
Duration: 45 minutes

Next Generation Science Standards

NGSS

Science and Engineering Practices

Developing and using models
Crosscutting Concepts

Cause and effect
Disciplinary Core Ideas

ESS3.A Natural resources

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Science and Engineering Practices

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Disciplinary Core Ideas