SEATOR: Safe Shellfish
This film, produced by SEATOR walks students through how toxins that cause Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning get into your food and how the Sitka Tribe of Alaska has created a program to monitor HABs and toxins throughout Southeast Alaska. The film shows how to properly take care of shellfish you’d like to get tested, and how…
Read MoreKBNERR Plankton Coloring Book
Coloring book from Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve featuring the plankton of Kachemak Bay.
Read MorePlankton Chronicles: Plankton
2 minute video explaining what plankton are and their role in the ecosystem. Mesmerizing photos and video clips.
Read MorePlankton Chronicles: Protists
3 minute video that shows the diversity of planktonic life that are protists and introduces key types of protists and their natural history.
Read MorePlankton Chronicles: Diatoms
5 minute video that utilizes beautiful microscopy photographs and video clips to explain what diatoms are, their evolutionary history, how they photosynthesize, and their role in marine ecosystems.
Read MorePlankton Chronicles: Ceratium
2 minute video focused on ceratium as an example of dinoflagellates. Introduces amazing adaptations of this photosynthetic organism.
Read MoreBigelow Laboratory: Tracing the Toxins
The ways that toxins move through the food web are demonstrated through an active game, followed by critical reading of research on the impacts HAB toxins may have on other animals.
Read MoreBigelow Laboratory: A Community In Crisis
Students participate in a community meeting based on the scenario of a fictional town impacted by a Harmful Algal Bloom.
Read MoreBigelow Laboratory: Help, It’s An HAB
Students research different responses to Harmful Algal Blooms, presenting the benefits and drawbacks of solutions designed to detect, prevent, or remediate HABs.
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