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Middle School
Beach field trip (Brevard County, FL) with Holly Abeels and Andrea Lazzari (approx. 22 minutes)
- Pre- or post-field trip activity: Mark-recapture lab
- Standards addressed by this field trip:
- SC.6.E.7.8 Describe ways human beings protect themselves from hazardous weather and sun exposure.
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SC.7.L.17.3 Describe and investigate various limiting factors in the local ecosystem and their impact on native populations, including food, shelter, water, space, disease, parasitism, predation, and nesting sites.
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SC.7.E.6.6 Identify the impact that humans have had on Earth, such as deforestation, urbanization, desertification, erosion, air and water quality, changing the flow of water.
Freshwater bog field trip (western Florida and eastern Alabama) with Chris Verlinde and Carrie Stevenson (approx. 17 minutes)
- Bog field trip vocabulary to review with students
- Standards addressed by this field trip
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SC.5.L.17.1 Compare and contrast adaptations displayed by animals and plants that enable them to survive in different environments such as life cycles variations, animal behaviors and physical characteristics.
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SC.6.E.7.8 Describe ways human beings protect themselves from hazardous weather and sun exposure.
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Mangrove field trip (southwestern Florida) with Michael Sipos (approx. 46 minutes)
- Pre- or post-field trip activity: Mangroves crossword puzzle
- Standards addressed by this field trip
- SC.6.E.7.8 Describe ways human beings protect themselves from hazardous weather and sun exposure.
- SC.7.L.17.1 Explain and illustrate the roles of and relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in the process of energy transfer in a food web.
- SC.7.L.17.2 Compare and contrast the relationships among organisms such as mutualism, predation, parasitism, competition, and commensalism.
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