Tidepool Ecosystems Field Lab
Tidepool Science Collective · Pacific Grove, Monterey County, CA · Sep 17, 2026, 3:27 AM
A morning among the tidepools: anemones, hermit crabs, and the rocky intertidal food web, guided by a marine biologist.
Standards this experience maps to
AI-suggested alignments from the organizer's curriculum. Always human-reviewable, never final on their own. Suggested instructional hours: 1.
- MS-LS2-1100% match
Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations in an ecosystem, including tide pools and marine habitats.
Science · Grade 6-8 · State: US
- TEKS-5.9A100% match
Observe the way organisms live and survive in their ecosystem by interacting with living and nonliving components, food chains and food webs in a habitat.
Science · Grade 5 · State: TX
- TEKS-5.7B50% match · pending human review
Recognize how landforms such as deltas, canyons, and sand dunes are the result of changes to Earth's surface by wind, water, and ice; erosion and weathering of rocks and soil.
Science · Grade 5 · State: TX
- 5-PS1-340% match · pending human review
Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties such as color, hardness, reflectivity, solubility.
Science · Grade 5 · State: US
- MS-ESS2-240% match · pending human review
Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes such as erosion and deposition have changed Earth's surface at varying time and spatial scales.
Science · Grade 6-8 · State: US