This resource describes the impact of climate change on juvenile sharks, sea otters, sea lions, migration and survival of marine resources. Students can gain knowledge and motivation to take climate action to conserve the marine ecosystem. This is recommended for teaching.
Standards
English Language Arts
Reading: Science & Technical Subjects (6-12)
11-12.RST.6 Analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text, identifying important issues that remain unresolved.
Speaking & Listening (K-12)
6.SL.5 Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify information.
Science
LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
7.LS2.1 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
7.LS2.4 Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
HS.LS2.6 Evaluate claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
