• Format: Interactive Video Lesson
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• Duration: 50 mins
• Fee: $160 $128 (save 20% by requesting through CILC 💜. Premium members save 25%.).

Research Connection:

• Coral Reef Monitoring & Assessment
• Coral Reef Restoration
• Coral Health & Disease
• Ocean Acidification

Organisms featured in this lesson:

• hard corals, soft corals, fire corals
• barnacles, clownfish, isopods, lionfish, remora, sea jellies, seaweeds, sea bass (grouper), sponges, triggerfish, urchins

Keywords: acidification, anatomy, apex predator, asexual reproduction, atoll, barrier reef, biodiversity, biogeography, budding, calcium carbonate, classification, carnivore, cleaning station, climate change, clone, cnidarian, community, conservation, consumer, endangered, extinction, fragmentation, fringing reef, gamete, habitat, herbivore, invasive species, lagoon, medusa, nematocysts, pH, photosynthesis, planula, polyp, primary producer, reef, salinity, spawn, symbiosis: mutualism, symbiosis: commensalism; symbiosis: parasitism, tropics, zooxanthellae

Objectives: Understand basic coral reef ecology. Compare symbiotic relationships of reef organisms. Identify coral anatomy and reproduction strategies. Recognize the value of coral reefs to humans. Identify threats to coral reefs like disease, climate change, and ocean acidification. Compare three stewardship actions.

Outline:

• Intro and prior knowledge
• Guided Reef Quest game
  1. Coral classification
  2. Coral anatomy
  3. Life cycles
  4. Reef formation
  5. Biogeography
  6. Biodiversity
  7. Reef relationships (symbiosis)
  8. Food webs
  9. Coral conservation
• Research and conservation
• Open questions and answers