This resource is a part of the Climate Science and Oceans Traveling Trunk

Artistic Creations of Our Oceans Facing a Changing Climate: Ocean Acidification

Overview

Students will deepen their understanding and appreciation of the ocean and how it is impacted by human activities by creating an artistic representation of what they learned. Students will “share the story” of climate change and environmental stewardship through art.

Activity Type:

Lesson

Target Grade Level:

K-2, 3-5

Estimated Duration:

Varies

Topics:

Oceans

Possible Connections to NGSS

Performance Expectations

K-ESS3-3: Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.

K-ESS3-1: Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.

3-LS4-4: Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environmental changes and types of plants and animals that live there may change.

5-ESS3-1: Combine and obtain information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect Earth’s resources and environment.

MS-ESS3-4: Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.