Coral Reefs and Conservation in Dry Tortugas National Park Guided Video Worksheet

Engage your students with this interactive video guide focused on coral reef ecosystems and Dry Tortugas National Park! Designed for middle and high school science, this ready-to-use digital worksheet accompanies an educational YouTube video highlighting Fort Jefferson, marine biology, and coral reef conservation. Perfect for independent work, sub plans, flipped classrooms, or environmental science units.

Dry Tortugas National Park is located in the western part of the Florida Keys. It includes a portion of the 3rd largest coral reef system in the world! There is a lot to learn about coral reefs, their importance, human impacts on them and how we can help conserve them! This activity includes a guide for students to fill in as they watch a video (free link provided below).

The video teaches about Fort Jefferson and its construction, The Florida Coral Reef system, "rainforests of the sea," how corals form (polyps), coral bleaching, ocean acidification, human impacts (agricultural runoff, overfishing, pollution, and coastal development), how we can help coral reefs and more!

This video would work well in an AP Environmental Science class (APES), marine science, general science, conservation science class.

To use this product, students will watch this video about Coral Reefs in Dry Tortugas National Park. Then, students will answer the provided questions which follow along with the video.

There are also several provided discussion questions for the class after the video, if you want to further the discussion.

This product includes:

1. Teacher Directions-including prep info and materials needed  

2. Teacher Procedure

3. Student Worksheet

4. Student Worksheet Answers

5. Teacher Tips

To do this activity, you will need:

• Pencil

• Copy of Dry Tortugas National Park Guided Video Questions (INCLUDED)

• Ability to project a YouTube video to the class

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