Looking After Tide Pools Written by Kerrie Shanahan
Looking After Tide Pools Text type: Interview Level: K (20) Word count: 544 Content vocabulary anemone beach crab hermit crab marine animals marine biologist Marine Discovery Center ocean octopus plankton sea sea snail sea star sea water seaweed shells shore shrimp snorkeling tide pool tide waves Curriculum links • Science: Living things – habitats, interdependency of living things • Social studies: Looking after the environment
Looking After Tide Pools
Key concepts • Tide pools contain animals and plants that depend on each other and a healthy tide pool for their survival. • People’s actions can impact on the health of tide pools. Reading strategy • Recognizing how a book is organized (interview) Paired book The Smart Little Crab © 2010-2015 EC Licensing Pty Ltd. This work is protected by US copyright law, and under international copyright conventions, applicable in the jurisdictions in which it is published. All rights reserved. The trademark “Flying Start to Literacy” and Star device is a registered trademark of EC Licensing Pty Ltd in the US. Purchasers of this book may have certain rights under applicable copyright law to copy parts of this book. Purchasers must make the necessary enquiries to ascertain whether and to what extent they have any such right in the jurisdiction in which they will be using the book. Photographs on pages 1 © Kelly Bates, 2 © Anke Van Wyk, 5 © Michael Emerson, 7 © Vicky Hamilton-Gibbs, 10 © Verity Johnson, cover, 11, 14, and, 24 © John Albers-mead, 13 (top left) © Olga Khoroshunova, 13 (top right) © Michael Ludwig, 13 (bottom left) © Frank Boston, 13 (bottom right) © Subsurface and 19 © Paula Gent, all from Dreamstime.com; page 3 Queenscliff Marine Discovery Centre – Department of Primary Industries; pages 4, 9 (main) and 11 (circle), all from Photolibrary; pages 8 © Brett Charlton, 12 © Gerad Coles, and 23 (left) © mark connors, all from iStockphoto.com; page 17 Siri Stafford from Getty Images; pages 13 (middle right) © Nancy Clemons, 23 (bottom) © Mari Anuhea, 23 (bottom) © ostill, 18 © Henrik Lehnerer, 20 © Juriah Mosin, and 21 (left) © John A. Anderson, all from Shutterstock; pages 13 (middle left), 15, and 21 (right) © 2009 Jupiter Images Corporation, from Photos.com. Diagrams on page 6 by Guy Holt.
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Written by Kerrie Shanahan
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We went on a field trip to the Marine
Karly knows a lot about sea animals and
Discovery Center. At the Center we met
plants. We asked Karly lots of questions
Karly Chan, who is a marine biologist.
to find out about what she does.
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Q Why do you teach people about tide pools?
I teach people about the ocean and
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the shore and how to look after them.
I take people snorkeling so they can see animals in the ocean. I also take people for walks on the beach, where we explore
Sometimes I teach in a special classroom
tide pools.
where people can see and touch marine animals.
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Q What are tide pools?
Tide pools are pools of water
in rocks on the shore.
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Rocks on the shore are covered by water when the tide comes in. When the tide goes out, some of the water is left behind in the pool.
high tide
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low tide
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The tide is important to tide pools.
This water also brings lots of tiny animals
The tide comes in and out every day.
called plankton into the tide pools.
When the tide comes in, it brings in
Many animals in tide pools eat plankton.
clean sea water.
plankton
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Q
hy are tide pools W interesting?
L ooking in tide pools is a great
A
way for people to learn about sea
life and how animals and plants live together. People can see a huge range of animals in one small place.
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Q
hich animals live W in tide pools?
Tide pools are home to many
A
These are some of the animals that live in tide pools.
octopus
shrimp
crab
anemone
sea snail
sea star
animals. Tide pools help to
protect these animals from strong tides and powerful waves. Without tide pools, these animals could not survive on the rocky shore.
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What grows in tide pools?
Seaweed grows in tide pools.
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There are different types of seaweed.
Animals in tide pools use the seaweed in different ways. Some animals eat seaweed, some use it for shelter, and some use it to hide from other animals that might eat them.
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Q
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How do we stay safe when exploring tide pools? Always check the weather conditions before exploring
tide pools. In wet, stormy weather, the waves can be dangerous. You have to be careful not to stand too close to where the waves are breaking, because they can wash you into the ocean. Tide pools can also be wet and slippery so you must walk carefully. Never pick up an animal that you don’t recognize, because some animals in tide pools can be dangerous.
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What happens when there is trash in tide pools? When trash is dropped on the beach or into the ocean, it can be washed into tide pools.
When there is trash in a tide pool and the water is dirty, the animals that live there can become sick and die.
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Q
What happens if we take things from tide pools?
Plants and animals that are
For example, if too many shrimp or crabs
taken out of tide pools often
are taken away from the tide pool, it could
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die because they cannot survive away
become dirty. Shrimp and crabs help to
from the tide pool.
keep the tide pool clean.
If one type of plant or animal disappears
Hermit crabs live in shells in tide pools.
from the tide pool, this can affect other
If you take away the shells, then the
plants and animals.
hermit crabs have nowhere to live.
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Q
hat can we do to W look after tide pools?
Everyone can help to take care of
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tide pools.
When you visit the beach, make sure you do these things: Take your trash with you when you leave. Trash that is left on the beach can end up in tide pools. Always read the signs at the beach and do as they say. L eave everything in a tide pool as you found it.
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What is your most important message about tide pools? If we look after tide pools, the animals that live there will have
a healthy home and we can continue to enjoy seeing them.
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