Jellyfish

= **Research project: Jellyfish**  =

** Explore why the number of jellyfish worldwide is on the increase. **  **Central Idea:Biodiversity relies on maintaining the balance of organisms within systems. **

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====** Step 1: Tuning In **. You will create a presentation about jellyfish. You need to think about what sub questions you need to know. What is it about your organism and its ecosystem that you think is important to share with the rest of the conference members (the class). To help you get started have a think about the following: ====

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· what the problem is with jellyfish? (Are there too many of them? Is the species becoming endangered? ) =====

· can the situation be changed
**What other questions do you have**? Record them on your project research sheet.

If you want to look on the school's OPAC for books check:
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Let us give you a bit of help here. For each assignment you will be given links to Internet sites, videos and books.
Click here to find pictures of jellyfish and read some simple facts

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Kids warned about giant jellyfish

[|http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7560000/newsid_7560900/7560955.st]

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Don’t forget to take notes on your project record sheet and complete the food web.

** Sorting Out: ** Think about how useful your sources are? Look at your notes, have you answered all your questions?

** Going Further: ** Do you have any further questions? Are any of your questions still answered? Go back to '**Tuning In**' and repeat the process again.

** Drawing Conclusions: ** How are you going to organize your presentation? By now you should have all the information for creating your food web, and creating your presentation. You might want to use images from the sites you visited or you might want to search for some other images to include in your presentation. Don't forget to cite your sources when you use images.

** Reflecting and Acting: ** Once you have all your notes, you are ready to start creating your presentation. = =