About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 8
- Subjects
- science (oceanography, technology and innovation), thinking skills (information literacy, visual literacy)
- Provider
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
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In this Science Update, students explore how nature photographers have recruited Weddell seals to help them shoot film under the Antarctic ice. Lee Fuiman of the University of Texas Marine Science Institute presents information about how seals equipped with cameras and sensors were used to provide more information about their species and their ecological interactions. Science NetLinks provides a link to the audio file, a written transcript, and questions to engage students in a discussion about using marine animals to provide details about their under water lifestyles and the advantages and disadvantages in using seals instead of robots. This activity also contains links to Dr. Fuiman’s home page, National Geographic’s “Crittercam,” and an online gallery of images of Antarctica.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 8
- Goal 1: The learner will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry.
- Objective 1.01: Identify and create questions and hypotheses that can be answered through scientific investigations.
- Objective 1.05: Analyze evidence to:
- explain observations.
- make inferences and predictions.
- develop the relationship between evidence and explanation.
- Objective 1.08: Use oral and written language to:
- Communicate findings.
- Defend conclusions of scientific investigations.
- Describe strengths and weaknesses of claims, arguments, and/or data.
- Objective 1.09: Use technologies and information systems to:
- Research.
- Gather and analyze data.
- Visualize data.
- Disseminate findings to others.
- Objective 1.10: Analyze and evaluate information from a scientifically literate viewpoint by reading, hearing, and/or viewing:
- Scientific text.
- Articles.
- Events in the popular press.
- Goal 3: The learner will conduct investigations and utilize appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of the hydrosphere.
- Objective 3.03: Evaluate evidence that Earth's oceans are a reservoir of nutrients, minerals, dissolved gases, and life forms:
- Estuaries.
- Marine ecosystems.
- Upwelling.
- Behavior of gases in the marine environment.
- Value and sustainability of marine resources.
- Deep ocean technology and understandings gained.
- Objective 3.06: Evaluate technologies and information systems used to monitor the hydrosphere.
- Objective 3.08: Recognize that the good health of environments and organisms requires:
- Monitoring of the hydrosphere.
- Water quality standards.
- Methods of water treatment.
- Maintaining safe water quality.
- Stewardship.
- Objective 3.03: Evaluate evidence that Earth's oceans are a reservoir of nutrients, minerals, dissolved gases, and life forms:
