Alaska Seas and Watersheds (midges, mosquitoes, frogs) (crabs, sea urchins, clams)
By C.J. and Ba Rea (written about the Kenai Fjords area)
(video)
See the list of species in the set. These are available free from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. They contain considerable information on the back about each species, including which are found in aquatic habitats, but the pictures will be most useful for grades K-2.
By Conrad Field
Arctic Ocean Food Web includes phytoplankton, zooplankton, and sea ice algae as producers.
By Carmen and Conrad Field
By Mary Morris A Queen Charlotte Islands Reader, Pacific Educational Press, University of British Columbia, 1987, ISBN0-88865-044-2
A Journey into an Estuary, A Journey into the Ocean, A Walk in the Tundra
Website has images and information on fresh water and marine ecosystems and the plants and animals that live there.
Article about the ROV Buttercup retrieving scientific equipment from the seafloor in Kachemak Bay
ASU School of Life Sciences
Students identify specific physical traits of adult plants and animals that are passed on to their offspring, examine images of young and mature plants and animals, and then match the adults to their offspring.
A field guide (images)
Place-based 2nd grade investigation developed by Sarah Liben for Yakutat School District in alignment with NGSS Performance Expectation 2-ESS2-1.
By Raffi (Also available as an album or MP3 download)
(possible model for student field guide)
By Katherine Hocker. Discovery Southeast.
Place-based 1rst grade investigation developed by Sarah Liben for the Yakutat School District in alignment with NGSS Performance Expectation 1-LS1-1
Alaska Department of Fish and Game guide and regulations
Place-based kindergarten unit developed by Sarah Liben for Yakutat School District in alignment with NGSS Performance Expectation K-ESS2-2.
Students monitor and estimate their weekly water use for both themselves and their family. They problem-solve about ways to reduce water consumption individually and schoolwide. Students then create posters supporting and promoting water conservation.
NOAA Auke Bay Laboratory, NOAA Fisheries
Introduction to tidal cycles and life in the “washing machine” of the intertidal zone
Sea Otter Food Web (Alaska Seas and Watersheds unit: The Case of the Missing Sea Otters).
Introduction to drone and their uses in collecting environmental data
Introduces students to submersibles and their uses in marine research and citizen science
Place-based 2nd grade investigation developed by Sarah Liben for Yakutat School District in alignment with NGSS Performance Expectation 2-ESS2-2 and 2-ESS2-3.
Student project to monitor a seabird population
DVD with beach etiquette messages and an introduction and footage of animals typically found in different intertidal zones on Alaska’s rocky beaches.
By Kurt Byers and Marilyn Sigman (has sequences of a hermit crab switching shells and escape behaviors of scallops and cockles in response to smelling/tasting an approaching sea star.)
Alaska Sea Grant Alaska Seas and Watersheds website
Source of free satellite images available via any web browser
Slide show illustrates mollusk anatomy and the function of feeding structures
By Molly Bang and Shirley Chisholm with an accompanying science/ELA lesson plan
By Barbara Brenner
By Donald M. Silver (Also available for Arctic Tundra and Pond habitats)
ImageQuest
Alaska SeaLife Center