EstuaryLive Student Objectives

As a result of their classroom estuary study and the virtual estuary field trip, students will improve in being able to:

1.    Define estuary

2.    Locate an estuary on a map, distinguishing it from rivers, oceans and land

3.    Identify tides as a daily event in an estuary

4.    Describe at least two important functions of estuaries

5.    List at least three plants or animals that live in an estuary for at least part of their life cycles

6.    Describe how at least one plant or animal has adapted to live in an estuary

7.    State two human activities that might cause an estuary to become unhealthy

8.    Describe how runoff into an estuary might affect the plants, animals, and people

9.    Identify food webs of estuary plants and animals

10.  Describe what they can do to maintain or improve the health of an estuary

11.  Students will be able to describe at least one way that global climate change could affect estuaries

12.  Students will be able to describe at least two activities of estuary scientists