Virginia Standards for Phytoplankton in the Gulf of Maine

This resource supports science standards for grades 7-8. This assignment is based on the Virginia Standards of Learning ES.1c: The student will plan and conduct investigations in which scales, diagrams, maps, charts, graphs, tables, and profiles are constructed and interpreted. ES.11c: The student will investigate and understand that oceans are complex, interactive physical, chemical, and biological systems and are subject to long- and short-term variations. Key concepts include systems interactions (density differences, energy transfer, weather, and climate). LS.7: The student will investigate and understand that organisms within an ecosystem are dependent on one another and on nonliving components of the environment.