Have students look at the photos of the animals, read the captions, and list as many characteristics and adaptations of the animals as they can. Give each pair of students a photo of an ocean animal from one of the provided websites or point them to an animal on one of the websites. Divide students into pairs and have them review the characteristics of the ocean zones and match ocean animals with the ocean zones in which the animals are found.īriefly review the characteristics of each ocean zone, using the provided NOAA Layers of the Ocean website if necessary to refresh students’ memories. Ask: Could Cameron (or any person) survive under that much pressure at those depths without being protected inside of something? Could other living creatures survive at those depths and that pressure? How? What other living creatures do you think Cameron was likely to encounter at those depths?Ģ. Activate prior knowledge by introducing or reintroducing James Cameron’s historic Challenger Deep dive.Įxplain that Cameron’s submersible was under 8 tons of pressure per square inch while he was in the Challenger Deep at depths of up to 10,898 meters (35,756 feet).
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