Age Group: Grade 1

Key Topics: Students explore the marine and forest interface between Cape Meares and Cape Lookout; introducing fish and estuarine habitats.

Created by: Netarts Bay WEBS

Age Group: Grades 1-2

Key Topics: Explore three of nature’s families from the estuary, the Great Blue Heron, the Chinook Salmon, and the Sitka Spruce, plus our relationship to them all.  

Created by: Cascade Head Biosphere Collaborative

Age Group: Grade 2

Key Topics: Students engage in a signature intertidal program that explores bay and tidepool habitats, comparing adaptations of shore crabs, shrimp, and other coastal species.

Created by: Netarts Bay WEBS

Age Group: Grades K-4

Key Topics: Students take part in a fast-paced activity where the Tides team spreads debris and the Volunteers team works to collect it while avoiding snowy plover nesting zones.

Created by: Oregon Shores

Age Group: Grades 3-4

Key Topics: Explore the life cycle of salmon and their real world super heroes traits.

Created by: Cascade Head Biosphere Collaborative

Age Group: Grades K-5

Key Topics: Students participate in the Oregon King Tides Project by analyzing community photos and capturing their own images of local shorelines before, during, and after king tide events.

Created by: Oregon Shores

Age Group: Grades 3-12

Key Topics: Students investigate the adaptations of seaweeds while creating unique artistic pressings of these marine plants.

Created by: Oregon Shores and Shifting Tides

Age Group: grades 5 - adult

Key Topics: Students examine rocky intertidal habitats: identify organisms, look at environmental pressures, adaptations, and population interactions.

Created by: Oregon Sea Grant

Age Group: Grades 5-6

Key Topics: Trace the path of a single raindrop as it falls from a cloud as makes its way back to the sea.  

Created by: Cascade Head Biosphere Collaborative

Age Group: Grades 6-8

Key Topics: Students analyze tidepool data to investigate the role of predators and the dynamics they create within rocky intertidal ecosystems.

Created by: Oregon Sea Grant

Age Group: Grades 6-8

Key Topics: Students learn how Oregon’s marine reserves were established and evaluate scientific monitoring data to understand their ecological and management impacts

Created by: Oregon Sea Grant

Age Group: Grades 6-8

Key Topics: Students learn how scientists monitor changing sea levels by working with real sea level and tide data from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services.

Created by: Oregon Shores

Age Group: Grades 9-12

Key Topics: Students study kelp forest ecosystems with a focus on biodiversity, environmental drivers, competition, and overall community structure.

Created by: Oregon Sea Grant