ORSEA: Cuckoo for Copepods

Researchers collecting copepods in tidepools.

Lesson Overview

How can we use copepods as a model to learn about how marine organisms tolerate extreme hypoxia?
Students explore how scientists use intertidal plantkon as a model organism to understand adaptations to hypoxic stress. (Gr 9-12)

Lesson Materials Media
Program Name and Website
Oregon Marine Scientist and Educator Alliance
Grade Level
High School
Year
2023
Topic
Invertebrates
OAH
Plankton
Author
Bryan Coyle, Sheridan High School
Vanessa Wilkerson, Rainier School District 13
Jenny Koester, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Marine Andriot, Oregon State University

Lesson Standards

Next Generation Science Standards

  • LS4.C – Adaptation

Oregon Math Standards

  • HS.DR.A.2
  • HS.DR.A.3
  • HS.DR.B.6
  • HS.DR.C.8

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