DIver 360:
pier piling
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DIVER 360: PIER PILING
In the Cal Poly pier piling module (download files below), students view and control virtual reality videos filmed underwater to experience SCUBA diving and conduct scientific methods themselves (“swim” a transect and count sea stars, urchins and anemones), after which they analyze their data and compare results (e.g., collected at different depths and for different species), culminating in their achievement of the NGSS Performance Expectation MS-LS2-1 (6-8th grade), “Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem”.
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Click on image to the left and watch on YouTube to access all of the below videos:
• [1] Ecology Introduction
• [2] Intertidal Zone Ecology
• [3] SCUBA Diving Gear
• [4] Pier Piling Data Collection
• [5] Pier Piling Methods
• [6] Natural Sea Floor Data Collection: Rocky Transect
• [7] Natural Sea Floor Data Collection: Sandy Transect
• [8] Conclusion
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