Students will identify and describe the relationship between watersheds and phytoplankton distribution.
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Download NASA satellite data to create a custom climograph for a specific location.
Students identify patterns in chlorophyll concentration data to formulate their explanations of phytoplankton distribution.
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This video provides tips for teachers on helping students make sense of data to help them understand and work with data. It is based on the work of Kristin Hunter-Thomson of Dataspire.org and uses data from the My NASA Data Earth System Data Explorer.
Phytoplankton background information.
This lesson is taken from NASA's Phytopia: Discovery of the Marine Ecosystem written in partnership with Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science with funding from the National Science Foundation.
Earth is a system of systems.
Students use Phytopia: Exploration of the Marine Ecosystem, a computer-based tool, to investigate various phytoplankton species and topics relating to phytoplankton biology.