Marine Investigations

Some of us have been working with a marine biologist, Sally Carson. We have been investigating our local intertidal zones and putting the data together. We are presenting this information on posters. We have some wonderings about what humans are doing to the marine environment and would like to take action to look after it! Watch this space... 

Kyran: Marine Investigations
We went to the beach and did our meter squared. We found some crabs, sea anemones, mussels, seaweed, limpets, and sea stars. We made some cool digital models of our metre squares. Then we worked with a marine biologist named Sally. We made posters of what we found at the rock pools and we talked about how sea creatures survive. Also we looked at our models. We had a good time working with Sally.

Rézi: When Sally came in to talk to us about our 3D models, and to encourage us further in our learning around MOANA MANA, I was really excited. Honestly when she came it was awesome.When she came in she started demonstrating how its better to live in the lower intertidal zone than in the splash zone if you are an animal that needs water to survive, because then they can be fully covered in high tide when otherwise other animals like crabs don’t need to have seawater to survive. We played a game called survivor where we were all crabs and Sally gave us scenarios and we had to make the right choices. I was in the second to last group to fall out. Afterwards we had to make a graph around all the things we found in the marine meter squares. After morning tea, we played another game. Here we were holding pieces of paper, and the smallest animal had 2 pieces of plastic, then they got eaten by other animals etc. In the end the shark had to eat the big fish, who were already loaded with micro plastic. The shark ate them and he was full of micro plastic. We continued our posters and our graphs. She left after lunch. It was a great experience!