Learning Exercise
Monterey Bay Aquarium Virtual Field Trip
This assignment is aligned to California Earth Science Standard 5d. It is an interactive tour of aquarium exhibits that illustrates the geographic distribution of marine organisms.
Course: Earth Science
- Material:
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Date last modified:
- June 27, 2005
- Created by:
- Erica Cardey
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This website is an interactive virtual tour through the Monterey Bay Aquarium. A tour through the aquarium exhibits... see more
Exercise
This assignment can be used as a supplemental activity at the end of a unit on
the oceans.
Students visit each of the four exhibits listed below:
Rocky Shore
Kelp Forest
Outer Bay
Monterey Deep Sea Canyon (find this exhibit under "past exhibits").
As they visit each
exhibit, their task is to describe each habitat including the following factors:
temperature (a rough, general estimate), sunlight, food sources, and marine
life living in the habitat.
Students are also provided with a copy of a vertical profile of ocean
environments. As they view each exhibit, they fill in each exhibit's name within
its proper ocean environment.
the oceans.
Students visit each of the four exhibits listed below:
Rocky Shore
Kelp Forest
Outer Bay
Monterey Deep Sea Canyon (find this exhibit under "past exhibits").
As they visit each
exhibit, their task is to describe each habitat including the following factors:
temperature (a rough, general estimate), sunlight, food sources, and marine
life living in the habitat.
Students are also provided with a copy of a vertical profile of ocean
environments. As they view each exhibit, they fill in each exhibit's name within
its proper ocean environment.