Visiting the Cabrillo Beach Tide Pools

Unit 1: Oceanography

What is Science? Are Ghosts Scientific?

The Scientific Method

Experiments Need a Control Group

Are Viruses Alive?

How Old is the Earth?

How the Oceans Were Formed

Introduction to Light Wavelengths

Why is the Ocean Blue?

Atmospheric Pressure

Properties of Water

Demo: Adhesion and Cohesion Penny Game

Demo: Water's High Specific Heat

What is a Rain Shadow?

pH Scale Explained

Unit 2: Biology

Cell Theory, Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

Intro to Cell membranes

What is Diffusion?

Intro to Osmosis with Fish

Osmosis Demo with a Naked Egg

A brief Run Through of the Parts of a Cell

Types of Cells, What are Stem Cells?

Gametic vs Somatic Cells

Marine Biology Reproduction

What is a Species?

Taxonomy, What is a Human?

Intro to Evolution

Evolutionary Structures

What is Plankton, Benthic, Sessil, and Nekton

Unit 3: Algae and Plants

What is Algae and Why it Makes Me So Angry

Seaweed and Kelp, What Are They?

Marine Plants; Why are there so Few of Them?

Seagrass: Story Time with Mr. Bird

Unit 4: Animals: Invertebrates

What is an Animal?

Phylum Porifera: The Sea Sponges

Phylum Cnidaria: Sea Jellies and Anemones

Marine Worms: Flatworms, Ribbon Worms, Round Worms, and Segmented Worms

Phylum Mollusca

Arthropoda Taxonomy

Phylum Arthropoda

Crustacean Legs

Phylum Echinodermata: Sea Stars, Urchins, and Sea Cucumbers

Unit 5: Animals: Vertebrates

Intro to the Phylum Chordata

Class Agnatha

Class Chondrichthyes

Class Osteichthyes

Swimmy: Story Time with Mr. Bird, Fish Schooling Behavior

Fish is Fish: Story Time with Mr. Bird

Class Reptilia: Marine Reptiles

Class Aves: Marine Birds

Class Mammalia: Marine Mammals

Order Cetaccea

Unit 6: Marine Ecology

Endothermic vs Ectothermic, Why I eat So Much

Symbiosis; Parasitism, Commensalism, and Mutualism

What is a Niche and Why I cant Own a Ferret