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How Can Growing Seaweed Help Mussels?
Duration: 90 minutes
Grade Levels: 6-8
Ocean acidification is occurring because our ocean is absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, leading to lower pH and greater acidity. This is causing a fundamental change in the chemistry of the ocean from pole to pole.
Grade Levels: 6-8
Duration: 90 minutes
Objectives:
- Develop and use a model to explain how the process of photosynthesis can be used as a possible solution to the problem of ocean acidification in this aquatic system.
Climate Standards Connections
| Next Generation Science Standards | ||
| Grade | Performance Expectation | Description |
| 6-8 | MS-LS1-6 | Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.a |
| Climate Change Connections | ecosystems | |
| Clarification Statement & Assessment Boundary | Emphasis is on tracing movement of matter and flow of energy. Assessment does not include the biochemical mechanisms of photosynthesis | |