Fisheries Unit Labs

Provided by: TERC |Published on: April 27, 2021

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Synopsis

The eight labs in this module on fisheries presents fisheries research and management tools and allows students to become active participants in both learning about and conserving marine ecosystems.
They discuss types of fishing, overfishing, ecosystem effects, food waste, global fish populations, aquaculture, pollution from fish farms, and climate connections.

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Subjects: Chemistry, Biology, Earth and Space Sciences

Authors: TERC, Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC)

Region: North America, Global

Languages: English

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Positives

The lab overviews section identifies all of the materials you'll need to gather and provides a summary of the labs.
There are many topics in these labs that will be new for students to learn about.

Prerequisites

Review teacher resources for general background information relevant to each lab and materials that you may need to gather.
Most labs require access to the Internet.

Differentiation & Implementation

Science classes can connect one or more of these labs to eutrophication, dead zones, and nutrient cycling.
Social studies classes can discuss the ethics of fishing a species to extinction or causing populations to crash and think critically about how humans have been able to affect global populations and global systems in a very short period of time.
Have students brainstorm ways to reduce overfishing, pollution from fish farms, and protect marine ecosystems.

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Fisheries Unit Labs

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