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Pre-Visit
Activities : Reefs
Procedures
MAIN
| OBJECTIVES | STANDARDS
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| PROCEDURES | ASSESSMENT | RESOURCES
- The
teacher will give the students a mini-lesson on hardbottom
reefs off the South Carolina coast. The teacher will
give them brief information on where the reefs are located,
what type of organisms live in them and what the habitat
is like. The teacher will tell the students they will
do research to determine how inland watersheds impact
these animals.
- Each
student will be assigned a reef fish species. Students
will research the species to determine their habitat
and food requirements, where larvae and juveniles of
the species live and what watersheds may impact both
the adults and juveniles.
Species:
gag
grouper
warsaw grouper
jewfish
speckled hind
Nassau grouper
red snapper
wreckfish
black sea bass |
snowy
grouper
scamp
blueline tilefish
tripletail
tomtate
yellowtail snapper
vermillon snapper
gray triggerfish |
white
grunt
red porgy
king mackerel
Atlantic spadefish
great barracuda
hogfish
greater amberjack
sheepshead
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- From
this information, students will create a real estate
pamphlet that is geared towards their particular species
of fish. The pamphlet will describe a home (the type
of habitat the fish is most likely to live in and thus
most likely to appeal it), local restaurants and the
food they serve (food that fish would eat) and nurseries
that would be used by the young of the species (the
places where the young of the species go to mature and
why these places are beneficial to them). The location
in the coastal waters of these habitats will be described.
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The last page of the pamphlet will be used to describe
potential problems with the habitats they are describing.
For adult fish habitats, students should describe things
such as fishing pressures the fish may have to deal
with. As many juveniles use salt marshes as nursery
grounds, the students will describe the water quality
of the salt marsh they have chosen as a nursery, the
watershed that flows in to it and potential sources
of pollution that may be flowing in with the watershed.
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What happens to pollution that flows into the ocean?
- If
a chemical spill occurred in the Saluda River near Greenville,
how might it affect the salt marsh around the Santee
Delta?
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