Meet Your Bay: Netarts

Positives

• This video does an excellent job comparing Netarts Bay to the other bays in Tillamook County.
• Students in the K-5 range should have no issues understanding this video and the "bird" narrator will be fun for younger students to listen to.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students need to know the following terms: bay, estuary, watershed, sandbars, mudflats, tides, freshwater, saltwater, and spit. 
• A commercial may play before the video starts.

Differentiation

• This video could supplement a lesson about the importance of protecting animals, and how maintaining the health of ecosystems can be beneficial to humans.
• This video could be shown as an example of scientific knowledge leading to the protection of wildlife and their natural habitats.
• This video could supplement a lesson on how daily tidal patterns can affect the behavior of animals.
• In a language arts class, students could be asked multiple-choice questions that gauge their understanding of the material.
• This can support lessons about climate change or the importance of natural habitats by providing a basis of understanding about ecosystems and the many types of animals that rely on them.