Resources for Teachers

A computer module containing educational activities based on the Arroyo Burro Watershed is available on CD. Module components focus on the links between watersheds and the coastal ocean, and the effects of human actions. Interactive simulations of potential runoff and flood conditions based on SBC-LTER results for this watershed are included. The CD includes five weeks of lesson plans in PDF format.

A reduced, web-viewable version of the computer module (above) based on the Arroyo Burro Watershed. Some components of the module are too extensive to be accommodated by browsers. The full CD is recommended.

• Requires QuickTime:

This group of lesson plans are associated with the Arroyo Burro Virtual Tour, and are geared toward middle school students. In these lessons, students will understand ecosystem concepts as they apply to coastal watersheds. Particular attention is paid to the transport of materials to the primary producers in a food web.

• Lesson Plans are also included with the CD, above.
• Lesson Plans require Adobe Acrobat Reader

Films:
Santa Barbara Channel and Islands

Three 30 minute films were created by Project Oceanography at the University of South Florida for live broadcast to middle school science students. SBC-LTER Investigators contributed to Part I of the series. The films are now viewable online.

• Part I: Introduction to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
• Part II: Intertidal Ecology
• Part IV: Marine Sanctuaries and GIS

Film:
Hopping with Life: The Ecology of Kelp on the Beach

Four minute film clip created by The Ocean Channel (OCEAN.com) for the Ty Warner Sea Center.
"Kelp and other seaweeds that are stranded on beaches as wrack support a diverse community of small animals that in turn are important as prey for shorebirds. The kelp wrack provides an important food source and habitat for kelp flies, maggots and small crustaceans on which several species of shore birds, starlings, common crows, black phoebes and warblers feed."

JASON Project

This multi-disciplinary educational program exposes students to the research of leading scientists as they examine basic biological and geological questions. A JASON Primary Interactive network Site was located at UCSB in 2002, and SBC-LTER investigators contributed to JASON XIV, exploring the terrestrial and marine ecosystems that extend from California's coast to the Channel Islands.