Light at the Bottom of the Deep Dark Ocean
Lesson Plan Overview
Students will be able to list the various adaptations that enable deep-sea fishes to survive; explain how bioluminescence helps deep-sea fish respond to food predator and reproductive pressures in their environments; explore how the structure of an appendage helps determine and utilize its function; describe how deepwater organisms respond to their dark environment.
Lesson Plans
Light at the Bottom of the Ocean Lesson PlanLiteracy Principles:
OLP#5: The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
OLP#7: The ocean is largely unexplored.
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