The Three Stages of the Kelp Bed

Author(s): James Jones

E-mail Address: james@mail.sandi.net

School: Valencia Park

Grade Level:fourth /fifth sheltered

Principal Currlcular Areas Addressed:Science, Language Arts

TPFS Section: Wednesday, Encanto

Topic:

In this space, write a short paragraph about the idea. What's the main idea? What kinds of things might be included? What's not going to included?

The main idea for this project will be the kelp beds of Southern California. The unit itself will be divided into three sections. The first section will cover the kelp canopy. In this section of the kelp, the unit will deal with the animal life that lives in the canopy. The next sections of the unit will cover the kelp stipes. The animals that live in the stipes are completely different than the animals that live in the canopy. Last section of this unit will deal with the holdfast of the kelp beds. In this area, all of the bottom dewellers can be found, anything that lives of the bottom of the ocean, and some of the free swimmers of the kelp stipes can be found in this area

This project will cover...

Learning Goals: The learning goals of the project will be to teach fourth and fifth graders the rich varity of sea life that lives in the kelp beds off Southern California. This unit will also teach the students the many uses of the by the animals that live there, and the human use of kelp. Most students will be surprised at the many products that use kelp as part of its production. hope your students will learn? You might want to put objectives in the form of a bulleted list like this:

Student will learn...

Learner Task:

What are you going to ask your learners to do/perform/create to indicate that they've learned what you wanted them to learn? An oral presentation? A letter to the President? A HyperStudio representation of a tidal pool? A simulated diary of a pioneer?

The culiminating task in this project might be...

Resources:

What websites have you already identified that might be useful? What books, tapes and other offline resources do you know about?

Resources for this project idea might include....

When you're done drafting your idea, erase all the green text prompts, and save the file under an appropriate name like tide-investigation.html. Your instructor or one of the mentors will collect it for you and it will be posted on the symposium website in a day or two.