| Alignment with the California State Science Standards: Marine Biology A | ||||
| Investsigation & Experimentation | Biology/ Life Science | Earth Sciences | ||
| Oceanography | ||||
| Reading: Topographic Maps | 1h | |||
| Report: Aquarium Filtration | ||||
| WS: Marine Science Quiz | ||||
| Reading: Mapping the Earth’s Surface | 1h | |||
| Vocabulary: Topographic Maps | 1h | |||
| Reading: Mapping the Globe | 1h | |||
| Vocabulary: Mapping the Earth’s Surface | 1h | |||
| Reading: Locating Points on Globes | 1h | |||
| Reading: Seafloor Features | 1h | |||
| Reading: Features of the Ocean Basins | 1h | |||
| WS: The Water Planet | 1h | |||
| Reading: The Water Planet | 1h | |||
| WS: Reviewing Chapter 3 | 1h | |||
| Vocabulary: Features of the Ocean Basin | 1h | |||
| WS: Raised Relief Model | 1h | |||
| WS: Major Features of the Earth’s Solid Surface: Constructing a Graphic Model | 1h | |||
| WS: The Fluid Earth: Topic 5 Seafloor Features | 1h | |||
| WS: Physical Oceanography – Profile of the Atlantic Ocean | 1h | |||
| Grid: The Fluid Earth – Topic 6 Mapping the Seafloor | 1h | |||
| WS: The Fluid Earth – Topic 6 Mapping the Seafloor | 1h | |||
| Reading: Mapping the Seafloor | 1h | |||
| Study Guide: Mapping and Seafloor Features | 1h | |||
| WS: The Fluid Earth – Topic 7 Layers of the Earth | ||||
| WS: Depth Sounding | ||||
| Lab: Physical Oceanography Coastal Oceanography Unit – Coastal Models Lab | ||||
| Study Guide1: Using Reflected Waves to Measure Depth | ||||
| Study Guide: Plate Tectonics | ||||
| WS: The Fluid Earth: Topic 8 Earth’s Moving Plates | ||||
| Lab: Topography and Contour Lines | ||||
| Invertebrate Zoology | ||||
| Lab: Principles of Taxonomy | ||||
| Reading: Kingdoms of the Living World | 6a | |||
| Quiz: Intro to the Animal Kingdom | 6a | |||
| WS: Life Histories of Simple invertebrates | 6a | |||
| WS: Dichotomous Key | 6a | |||
| Lab: Overview of the Major Invertebrate Phyla | 6a | |||
| Lab: Structural Characteristics in Identification of Animals | 6a | |||
| WS: The Sponges | ||||
| WS: Porifera / Cnidaria | ||||
| Vocabulary: Sponges and Coelenterates | ||||
| Quiz: Phyium Porifera | ||||
| WS: Porifera Worksheet | ||||
| Reading: Sponges | ||||
| Questions: Ch. 7 - Stinging Celled Animals | ||||
| Questions: Ch. 6 - Two Layers of Cells | ||||
| Lab: Flatworm Behavior | ||||
| Word Search: Ch. 9 and 10 | ||||
| Project: Worm-Borne Parasitic Diseases | ||||
| Questions: Ch. 9: Three Layers of Cells | ||||
| Lab: Prepared Slides of Phylum Cnidaria | ||||
| WS: Dissecting an Annelid - the Earthworm | ||||
| WS: Diagram Annelid | ||||
| WS: Parts of the Earthworm | ||||
| Quiz: Round Worms | ||||
| Study Guide: Roundworms | ||||
| Word Search: Roundworms | ||||
| Questions: Ch. 15 – Soft Bodied Animals Pt. 2 | ||||
| Questions: Ch. 15 – Soft Bodied Animals Pt. 1 | ||||
| WS: How can you determine the age of a clam? | ||||
| WS: Mollusks | ||||
| Quiz: Annelida | ||||
| WS: Worms | ||||
| Activity: Mollusca: A Hidden Message | ||||
| Questions: Mollusks: Section 9-5 | ||||
| Reading: Reproduction in Molluscs: Cephalopod Reproduction | ||||
| Reading: Molluscan Diversity: Squid and Octopus | ||||
| Diagram: Squid | ||||
| WS: Lect 2.2 – Phylum Echinodermata | ||||
| Questions: Spiny Skinned Animals Ch. 21 | ||||
| Reading: Squid Dissection and Dining | ||||
| Questions: Ch. 15: Soft Bodied Animals Pt. 1 | ||||
| Quiz: Night of the Squid | ||||
| Lab: Reproduction and Development in the Sea Urchin | ||||
| Activity: Sea Urchin - Fertiliztion | ||||
| WS: Mollusks and Echinoderms | ||||
| WS: Dissecting an Echinoderm – the Starfish | ||||
| Diagram: Crustacean Body Systems | ||||
