Textbook is required:  ISBN 13: 9780076929092  Castro, Marine Science, 2019, 2e

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You are welcome to buy or rent them at the vendor of your choice. Click here for a vendor that offers a premium bundle, which includes a print student edition, lab manual with 42 labs, and an online student edition subscription for one year. Lab manual is not required.

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Students interact with and learn about the animals that live in the San Francisco Bay Estuary and local Pacific Ocean habitats. They have the opportunity to use professional grade scientific equipment and handle live animals. Students will work on a final project all semester. There will be weekly homework assignments. Students will have a field trip to Stulsaft Park in Week 3.

 

There is an optional on-the-water 2-hour field trip aboard the R/V Robert G. Brownlee at the end of the semester. This requires separate registration. Family members who are 5+ years old can also join (separate registration required). More information to come. 

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Semester 1 curriculum structure:

• Week 1: Unit 1 Ocean Environment

• Week 2: Unit 1 Ocean Environment

• Week 3: Creek Study Field trip (Stulsaft Park)

• Week 4: Unit 2 Waves, Tides, and Atmospheric Circulation

• Week 5: Unit 2 Waves, Tides, and Atmospheric Circulation

• Week 6: Unit 3 Organisms of the Sea

• Week 7: Unit 3 Organisms of the Sea

• Week 8 Unit 4 Marine Animals

• Week 9: Unit 4 Marine Animals

• Week 10: Ocean Lab