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- Title
Oligotrophic: A marine microbiology board game-based activity for high school science classrooms.
- Authors
WASHBURN, QUINN; WOLF, SARAH; WELL, JAY; NOELL, STEPHEN; LEE, CHIH-PING; BOLAÑOS, LUIS M.; GIOVANNONI, STEPHEN J.; SUFFRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER P.
- Abstract
In the game, players select and play hexagonal cards based on actual microorganisms to accumulate biomass, achieve bonuses, and take biomass from other microorganisms they encounter (Figures 1 and 2). Students track the movement of biomass throughout the microbial food web and learn how marine microbes mediate the uptake of anthropogenic carbon via the Microbial Carbon Pump. Climate change is a challenge that all students will encounter; in fact, they are dealing with its early effects now. Through the use of the board game Oligotrophic and the accompanying lesson, we hope to show students their personal connection to the oceans, the carbon cycle, and climate change.
- Subjects
MARINE microbiology; CARBON cycle; SCIENCE classrooms; MARINE sciences; MARINE microbial ecology; HIGH schools; SCIENTIFIC literacy; VIRUS removal (Water purification)
- Publication
Science Teacher, 2021, Vol 88, Issue 5, p52
- ISSN
0036-8555
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/00368555.2021.12293612