Channel Islands Live Dive For Students

 

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Channel Islands Live Distance Learning Links:

• Distance Learning Overview
• Live Hike for Students
• How to Schedule a Program
• Live Webcams
• Archived Programs

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The Live Dive is a 30-minute live, interactive program that takes teachers and students on a virtual dive through the kelp forest to learn about this seldom-seen world without even getting wet.

Divers reveal the values of this rich marine resource, connect to students' learning objectives, answer student questions, and show them marine organisms from lobsters to spiny sea urchins and brightly colored fish.

Classes can remotely join these programs via the Internet and video conferencing or participate at the park's mainland visitor center in Ventura, California.

Grade 4 Live Dive
As kelp forest inhabitants are encountered, students identify their roles as producers or consumers. Food chains are constructed. What if one organism in a food chain disappears? What if some condition in the kelp forest changes?

Grade 5 Live Dive
The role of kelp as a producer and, therefore, its ability to produce oxygen through photosynthesis are emphasized. Affects of human activities on kelp forests are also explored.

Grade 6 Live Dive
As kelp forest inhabitants are encountered, students identify their roles as producers, consumers, or decomposers. Food chains are constructed and the transfer of energy is discussed. Affects of human activities on kelp forests are also explored.

High School Live Dive
Program emphasis is on the park's kelp forest inventorying and monitoring program and the rationale for creation of marine protected areas (MPAs).