More Preparation

Below are some resource materials I will be taking advantage of so that I can be best prepared for our exciting tide pools field trip coming up soon.

I will be using my field guide from when I took Oceanography and Marine Biology in college. This book is filled with pictures and details about all of the animals, plants, and substrates (surfaces) in the coastal community. We will be able to bring it with us on the field trip to help us identify things we don't recognize.

Here are some links that will help us become better acquainted with what we'll see on our trip.

• Tides - What are they and why do they fluctuate?
• Great details of what we'll see at the tide pools
  
• Lots of pictures and descriptions of different sea life we may encounter
• Click on the creatures on this page to learn more about them
• An excellent resource of tidal information as well as species identification with pictures and descriptions
  

Next time, we'll talk about how we'll discuss what we learned, what we'd like to learn, and what we thought we would have learned, but didn't on our field trip.