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Ballona Teaching Resources
Click the links below to download teaching resources for each grade.
Grade 6
Where does your water come from? Build a model and predict where the water wiill travel across the land.
What animal relationships exist in the wetlands? This activity studies food webs and bioaccumulation.
Can land-based activities influence aquatic wildlife and its habitat? Experience what happens to a stream and its flow of water when silt and/or sand are added to the water.
Grade 7
How do plants receive nutrients? Demonstrate how plants absorb nutrients and pollutants with celery model.
Key to Survival: adaptations for an extreme environment
What types of plants are in a wetland? Use a dichotomous key to classify different types of plants found in Ballona Wetlands.
Where do the plants and animals around you come from? Research native and non-native species and identify the implications to the environment.
Use this identify plants on a field trip to Ballona Wetlands. You will need to review to the students the characteristics of plants. The species used here can be found at Ballona Wetlands.
Grade 8
What is pollution and how does it affect the environment? Conduct an experiment to observe the effects of multiple sources of pollution.
Are We Just Fouling Ourselves?
Does the way we use the land affect us? Research land use and derivative pollutants in order to write a report. Also suggested as 6th grade activity, meeting standards for watersheds.
You Are What you Eat: Plastics and Marine Life
Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it isn't there. Whether it sinks or floats, plastics in the sea spell trouble for all the animals in the ocean. Find out the many ways marine life can be affected by plastics in their aquatic home.
Fresh water out, salt water in - the turn of the tides in coastal estuaries makes for a mixing adventure.
Do things that float behave differently in salt and fresh water? What lets them float, and when do they sink?
If you are interested in participating in the Middle School Program, please contact the Friends of Ballona Wetlands Programs Director.
Friends of
Ballona Wetlands
Kelly Rose, Programs Director
(310) 739-8613 / 306-5994
ecorestoration@verizon.net
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