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Coral Reef Adventure
Follow the real-life expedition of ocean explorers and underwater filmmakers Howard and Michele Hall.
The Halls guide us to the islands and sun-drenched waters of the South Pacific, including Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Fiji, Tahiti and the mysterious depths of Rangiroa Atoll, to document the health and beauty of coral reefs.
On the giant screen, you'll feel like you're diving and exploring right alongside them!
| Format | Omni Film |
| Grades | 3 – 12 |
| Author | n/a |
| Source/Publisher | n/a |
| Location | Mugar Omni Theater — Museum of Science, Boston |
| Website | n/a |
| Script | Coral_Reef_Script.pdf |
| Educator Guide | Coral_Reef_Guide.pdf |
| Reservation | Required at least two weeks in advance |
| Fee | $3 per person with Museum Exhibit Halls admission; $6 per person for Omni only |
Coral Reef Adventure
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Primary Connections:
National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Environmental quality (Grade: 9 – 12)
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Environmental quality (Grade: 9 – 12)
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Environmental quality (Grade: 9 – 12)
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Populations, resources, and environments (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Life Science > The cell (Grade: 9 – 12)
- Life Science > Interdependence of organisms (Grade: 9 – 12)
- Life Science > Interdependence of organisms (Grade: 9 – 12)
- Life Science > Interdependence of organisms (Grade: 9 – 12)
- Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Life Science > Populations and ecosystems (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Life Science > Populations and ecosystems (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Life Science > Populations and ecosystems (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Life Science > Populations and ecosystems (Grade: 5 – 8)
MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)
- Biology > Ecology (Grade: 9 – 10)
- Technology/Engineering > Engineering Design (Grade: 3 – 5)
- Life Science (Biology) > Changes in Ecosystems Over Time (Grade: 6 – 8)
- Life Science (Biology) > Energy and Living Things (Grade: 6 – 8)
- Life Science (Biology) > Energy and Living Things (Grade: 6 – 8)
- Life Science (Biology) > Energy and Living Things (Grade: 6 – 8)
- Life Science (Biology) > Living Things and Their Environment (Grade: 6 – 8)
- Life Science (Biology) > Energy and Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
- Life Science (Biology) > Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
- Life Science (Biology) > Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
- Earth and Space Science > Weather (Grade: 3 – 5)
- Life Science (Biology) > Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
- Life Science (Biology) > Plant Structures and Functions (Grade: 3 – 5)
- Life Science (Biology) > Plant Structures and Functions (Grade: 3 – 5)
- Life Science (Biology) > Characteristics of Plants and Animals (Grade: 3 – 5)
- Biology > Ecology (Grade: 9 – 10)
- Biology > Ecology (Grade: 9 – 10)
Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework (2003)
(Massachusetts)
- Geography > Southeast Asia and Oceania (Grade: 6)
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Primary Connections:
National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Environmental quality (Grade: 9 – 12)
Materials from human societies affect both physical and chemical cycles of the earth. - Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Environmental quality (Grade: 9 – 12)
Many factors influence environmental quality. Factors that students might investigate include population growth, resource use, population distribution, overconsumption, the capacity of technology to solve problems, poverty, the role of economic, political, and religious views, and different ways humans view the earth. - Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Environmental quality (Grade: 9 – 12)
Natural ecosystems provide an array of basic processes that affect humans. Those processes include maintenance of the quality of the atmosphere, generation of soils, control of the hydrologic cycle, disposal of wastes, and recycling of nutrients. Humans are changing many of these basic processes, and the changes may be detrimental to humans. - Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Populations, resources, and environments (Grade: 5 – 8)
Causes of environmental degradation and resource depletion vary from region to region and from country to country. - Life Science > The cell (Grade: 9 – 12)
Plant cells contain chloroplasts, the site of photosynthesis. Plants and many microorganisms use solar energy to combine molecules of carbon dioxide and water into complex, energy rich organic compounds and release oxygen to the environment. This process of photosynthesis provides a vital connection between the sun and the energy needs of living systems. - Life Science > Interdependence of organisms (Grade: 9 – 12)
Human beings live within the world's ecosystems. Increasingly, humans modify ecosystems as a result of population growth, technology, and consumption. Human destruction of habitats through direct harvesting, pollution, atmospheric changes, and other factors is threatening current global stability, and if not addressed, ecosystems will be irreversibly affected. - Life Science > Interdependence of organisms (Grade: 9 – 12)
Organisms both cooperate and compete in ecosystems. The interrelationships and interdependencies of these organisms may generate ecosystems that are stable for hundreds or thousands of years. - Life Science > Interdependence of organisms (Grade: 9 – 12)
Living organisms have the capacity to produce populations of infinite size, but environments and resources are finite. This fundamental tension has profound effects on the interactions between organisms. - Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
All organisms must be able to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment. - Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
Regulation of an organism's internal environment involves sensing the internal environment and changing physiological activities to keep conditions within the range required to survive. - Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
Behavior is one kind of response an organism can make to an internal or environmental stimulus. A behavioral response requires coordination and communication at many levels, including cells, organ systems, and whole organisms. Behavioral response is a set of actions determined in part by heredity and in part from experience. - Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
An organism's behavior evolves through adaptation to its environment. How a species moves, obtains food, reproduces, and responds to danger are based in the species' evolutionary history. - Life Science > Populations and ecosystems (Grade: 5 – 8)
Populations of organisms can be categorized by the function they serve in an ecosystem. Plants and some micro-organisms are producers--they make their own food. All animals, including humans, are consumers, which obtain food by eating other organisms. Decomposers, primarily bacteria and fungi, are consumers that use waste materials and dead organisms for food. Food webs identify the relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem. - Life Science > Populations and ecosystems (Grade: 5 – 8)
For ecosystems, the major source of energy is sunlight. Energy entering ecosystems as sunlight is transferred by producers into chemical energy through photosynthesis. That energy then passes from organism to organism in food webs. - Life Science > Populations and ecosystems (Grade: 5 – 8)
The number of organisms an ecosystem can support depends on the resources available and abiotic factors, such as quantity of light and water, range of temperatures, and soil composition. Given adequate biotic and abiotic resources and no disease or predators, populations (including humans) increase at rapid rates. Lack of resources and other factors, such as predation and climate, limit the growth of populations in specific niches in the ecosystem. - Life Science > Populations and ecosystems (Grade: 5 – 8)
A population consists of all individuals of a species that occur together at a given place and time. All populations living together and the physical factors with which they interact compose an ecosystem.
MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)
- Biology > 6.3 Ecology (Grade: 9 – 10)
Identify the factors in an ecosystem that influence fluctuations in population size. - Technology/Engineering > 2.1 Engineering Design (Grade: 3 – 5)
Identify a problem that reflects the need for shelter, storage, or convenience. - Life Science (Biology) > 17 Changes in Ecosystems Over Time (Grade: 6 – 8)
Identify ways in which ecosystems have changed throughout geologic time in response to physical conditions, interactions among organisms, and the actions of humans. Describe how changes may be catastrophes such as volcanic eruptions or ice storms. - Life Science (Biology) > 16 Energy and Living Things (Grade: 6 – 8)
Recognize that producers (plants that contain chlorophyll) use the energy from sunlight to make sugars from carbon dioxide and water through a process called photosynthesis. This food can be used immediately, stored for later use, or used by other organisms. - Life Science (Biology) > 15 Energy and Living Things (Grade: 6 – 8)
Explain how dead plants and animals are broken down by other living organisms and how this process contributes to the system as a whole. - Life Science (Biology) > 14 Energy and Living Things (Grade: 6 – 8)
Explain the roles and relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in the process of energy transfer in a food web. - Life Science (Biology) > 13 Living Things and Their Environment (Grade: 6 – 8)
Give examples of ways in which organisms interact and have different functions within an ecosystem that enable the ecosystem to survive. - Life Science (Biology) > 11 Energy and Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
Describe how energy derived from the sun is used by plants to produce sugars (photosynthesis) and is transferred within a food chain from producers (plants) to consumers to decomposers. - Life Science (Biology) > 10 Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
Give examples of how organisms can cause changes in their environment to ensure survival. Explain how some of these changes may affect the ecosystem. - Life Science (Biology) > 08 Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
Describe how organisms meet some of their needs in an environment by using behaviors (patterns of activities) in response to information (stimuli) received from the environment. Recognize that some animal behaviors are instinctive (e.g., turtles burying their eggs), and others are learned (e.g., humans building fires for warmth, chimpanzees learning how to use tools). - Earth and Space Science > 08 Weather (Grade: 3 – 5)
Describe how global patterns such as the jet stream and water currents influence local weather in measurable terms such as temperature, wind direction and speed, and precipitation. - Life Science (Biology) > 07 Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
Give examples of how changes in the environment (drought, cold) have caused some plants and animals to die or move to new locations (migration). - Life Science (Biology) > 03 Plant Structures and Functions (Grade: 3 – 5)
Recognize that plants and animals go through predictable life cycles that include birth, growth, development, reproduction, and death. - Life Science (Biology) > 02 Plant Structures and Functions (Grade: 3 – 5)
Identify the structures in plants (leaves, roots, flowers, stem, bark, wood) that are responsible for food production, support, water transport, reproduction, growth, and protection. - Life Science (Biology) > 01 Characteristics of Plants and Animals (Grade: 3 – 5)
Classify plants and animals according to the physical characteristics that they share. - Biology > 6.4 Ecology (Grade: 9 – 10)
Analyze changes in an ecosystem resulting from natural causes, changes in climate, human activity, or introduction of non-native species. - Biology > 6.5 Ecology (Grade: 9 – 10)
Explain how symbiotic behavior produces interactions within ecosystems.
Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework (2003)
(Massachusetts)
- Geography > SEAO.1 Southeast Asia and Oceania (Grade: 6)
On a map of the world, locate Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, the major Pacific Islands, the Pacific Ocean, and the Coral Sea. On a map of Southeast Asia and Oceania, locate the Bay of Bengal, the South China Sea, the Great Victoria Desert, and the Great Barrier Reef.
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