Big Fish, Little Fish

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Overview

Description:

Big Fish, Little Fish is a cart demo that can also be used as a classroom activity that focuses on what biomagnification is and how it happens in our ecosystems. Visitors will see a short visual demonstration followed by an interactive game.

Objectives

Big Idea:

Big Fish, Little Fish is a program aimed at educating the public about how biomagnification occurs and its effects on certain ecosystems. They will learn about how the biomagnification of certain chemicals such as DDT and mercury have created significant environmental issues and discuss environmental concerns related to potential biomagnification of nanoparticles.

Learning goals:

Recognize what biomagnification is and how it happens.
Understand the difference between biomagnification and bioaccumulation.
Learn about past examples of chemicals that biomagnified in the ecosystem.
Understand how nanoparticles have the potential to biomagnify and the impacts they may have.

NISE Net Content Map:

Nanotechnologies have costs, risks, and benefits that affect our lives in ways we cannot always predict.

Universal design:

Repeat and reinforce main ideas and concepts.

Provide multiple entry points and multiple ways of engagement

Provide physical and sensory access to all aspects of the program. Visitors can touch, see and hear different elements of the program.

Credits

Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0532536 and 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

Owning institution:

Children's Museum of Houston

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Scientist reviewed? check_reviewed

Peer reviewed? check_reviewed

Visitor evaluation? check_reviewed

Permissions

Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Standards

Life science:

K-4: Organisms and environments

5-8: Populations and ecosystems

Science in Personal and Social Perspectives:

K-4: Changes in environments

5-8: Risks and benefits

5-8: Science and technology in society

9-12: Environmental quality

9-12: Natural and human-induced hazards

9-12: Natural resources

9-12: Personal and community health

Resources

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Files:

Biomagnification Graphic

Blue Fish Template

Green and Orange Fish Template

Big Fish Little Fish Lesson Plan

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