Habitats: Oceans

• This short video is an introduction to ocean habitats, marine biodiversity, and environmental conditions found in the world's oceans.
• It is the beginning segment of a longer video about ocean habitats.
  

Positives

• This video has beautiful footage of organisms interacting in a ocean habitat.
• A focus on adaptations and diversity in aquatic organisms is helpful for examining the NGSS crosscutting concept of structure and function.

Additional Prerequisites

• This video is a preview of Discovery Education UK's habitat module on oceans. A login is required to view additional content.

Differentiation

• Consider having students choose one species they observe in the video to research further and explain how it is adapted to living in an ocean habitat.
• This would be a good video to use when discussing the concepts of biodiversity, adaptations, or the importance of water for life on Earth.
• Art or science classrooms could use the video footage as inspiration for an art piece that demonstrates the structure of organisms and how they function in the ocean.  
• Additional resources to use when discussing oceans are Our Oceans: Timelapse in Google Earth and Adesh's Deep Sea Dive.

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