Ocean Ecosystem Project Guidelines
Pick an Ocean Ecosystem – Choose a couple that seem interesting, research each, then settle on one to complete the project requirements. YOU MAY NOT HAVE THE SAME ECOSYSTEM AS THE PEOPLE AT YOUR SAME TABLE! SO TALK IT OUT WITH YOUR GROUP!
- The Rocky Intertidal Zone
- The Sandy Shoreline
- Estuaries: Where Rivers Meet the Sea
- The Continental Shelf
- Coral Reefs
- The Polar Oceans
- Open Ocean Surface Waters
- The Deep Ocean
Requirements: An Informational Webpage on your Ecosystem
You will create a webpage on your Weebly that will inform the public about your ecosystem.
A note about plagerism:
You must cite from where you borrow information. See http://www.plagiarism.org/ Clicking here will open this information in a new window.You may include a WORKS CITED PAGE or place hyperlinks within your information directing your reader to the page where your information was collected. You are not allowed to copy and paste!!!! All information must be rewritten in your own words! Remember pictures must be cited as well.
1. Main Page: Create a page on your Weebly Oceanography page. Call it the name of your ecosystem.
Each of the following requirements need to be a sub-page on your Main Ecosystem page
2. Locations in the World:
3. Population: Spotlight a population of organisms who live in your ecosystem.
4. Abiotic Factors: Spotlight the abiotic factors of the ecosystem that would entice a person (or not!) to want to visit there
5. Human impact: Spotlight an issue where humans have had an impact on your ecosystem
6. Works cited page (if you choose to give credit to all your pictures and websites this way)
If you choose to hyperlink information on each page, please place a disclaimer on this page that says...
"All information I have used has been hyper-linked to its original source"
- The Rocky Intertidal Zone
- The Sandy Shoreline
- Estuaries: Where Rivers Meet the Sea
- The Continental Shelf
- Coral Reefs
- The Polar Oceans
- Open Ocean Surface Waters
- The Deep Ocean
Requirements: An Informational Webpage on your Ecosystem
You will create a webpage on your Weebly that will inform the public about your ecosystem.
A note about plagerism:
You must cite from where you borrow information. See http://www.plagiarism.org/ Clicking here will open this information in a new window.You may include a WORKS CITED PAGE or place hyperlinks within your information directing your reader to the page where your information was collected. You are not allowed to copy and paste!!!! All information must be rewritten in your own words! Remember pictures must be cited as well.
1. Main Page: Create a page on your Weebly Oceanography page. Call it the name of your ecosystem.
- Title and description ( a paragraph!!!) of your ecosystem
- Picture representing the ecosystem that would spark interest
- Create a slogan for your ecosystem
Each of the following requirements need to be a sub-page on your Main Ecosystem page
2. Locations in the World:
- written locations (tell where in the world your ecosystem exists)
- highlighted map of locations (show a world map with areas highlighted)
3. Population: Spotlight a population of organisms who live in your ecosystem.
- name the population (a type of fish, seal, mollusk, starfish, coral, etc that the ecosystem is famous- this depends on your ecosystem- your research will point you in the right direction)
- provide a picture of an individual organism
- explain its ROLE in the ecosystem using the seven requirements below:
- trophic level it occupies
- where it lives
- what it eats
- what eats it
- other interactions or important behaviors
- describe the effect of abiotic factors on the population
- describe the effect of humans on the population
4. Abiotic Factors: Spotlight the abiotic factors of the ecosystem that would entice a person (or not!) to want to visit there
- climate
- annual temperatures
- annual rainfall
5. Human impact: Spotlight an issue where humans have had an impact on your ecosystem
- Describe the effect humans had on the environment or populations
- Request a “call for action” from the public to help reduce their impact on the ecosystem
- Provide contact info and/or a website for more information
6. Works cited page (if you choose to give credit to all your pictures and websites this way)
If you choose to hyperlink information on each page, please place a disclaimer on this page that says...
"All information I have used has been hyper-linked to its original source"