Coral+Reef+Ecosystem+Project

= Hello,my name is Allyson.This is one of my ideas for = = the Coral Reef Project with my partners Lizzette Badillo ,and Leslie Orea.I hope you enjoy this project .We are making a project about the coral ecosystem in two groups that represents unhealthy coral reef and how to transform the coral reef healthy again! = = Material for this PROJECT = YOU WILL NEED: **2 boxes** = Colorful and dead color paiize = = Sand = = Tools to decorate a cake = = Scissors =


 * If you don't have one of the materials, think if you can find something else that is a similar shape. Let your imagination and creativity run wild! **

* bag of "radiatore" pasta; it has a ruffled, ridged shape
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 * [[image:http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/stufftodo_marine/images/spacer.gif]] || cardboard box, approximately 2 feet x 1 foot
 * blue tissue paper or blue #|construction paper (or even newspaper painted blue)
 * #|clear tape
 * a few pieces of sandpaper OR paper, sand, and glue
 * scissors || [[image:http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/stufftodo_marine/images/coral_need.gif caption="What You'll Need"]]* ||
 * [[image:http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/stufftodo_marine/images/materials_coral2.gif caption="For the Brain Coral"]]

 
 * ball of modeling clay, Model MagicTM, or #|Play DohTM
 * paint, green, yellow, and brown
 * brushes
 * plastic cup or bowl for paint
 * cup of water, for #|cleaning brush
 * newspaper, to put on table before painting
 * sheet of white (plain) #|needlepoint canvas (available at crafts stores or large department stores)
 * #|pipe cleaners, thick (fan corals are usually orange, red, yellow, pink or purple)
 * #|pipe cleaners, thin (orange, red, yellow, pink, or purple)
 * newspaper, to put on table before painting
 * paint, orange, red, yellow, pink, or purple
 * plastic cup or bowl for paint
 * brushes


 * a bag of hair curlers (or you can substitute cardboard #|paper towel or #|toilet paper rolls)
 * pink or red plastic pom-poms, or red construction paper cut into thin strips, or pink Easter grass


 * about 6 to 10 tan-colored plastic hair curlers (the kind that have two parts)
 * #|clear tape
 * yellow #|Play DohTM ||  ||



With help from an adult, use the scissors to cut off one of the pieces of the lid from one of the long sides of the box. Then tape together the two remaining corners. || || Use the scissors to cut each of the short sides diagonally. || || Use tape to cover the box with blue tissue paper (or blue construction paper). IMPORTANT: Don't put blue tissue paper on the bottom of the diorama — this space will be used to create the sandy seafloor. || || Tape pieces of sandpaper to the bottom of the diorama. NOTE: As an alternative, you can glue some sand on the bottom — or color a sandy seafloor with markers or crayons. || ||
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 * **WHY THIS SHAPE?** The shape of the diorama box is designed to give you the maximum "floor" area for presenting your 3-D scene and it makes it possible for you to hang creatures from the "ceiling" of the box. ||
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Take a grapefruit-size piece of green #|Play DohTM or Model MagicTM and make it into a dome shape. Then stick pieces of "radiatore" pasta on the surface. Put the pasta at different angles to imitate the maze-like pattern on brain coral. || || Put the pasta-covered dough on a piece of newspaper. Paint the pasta pieces olive green. To get an olive-green color, mix green and yellow paint with a little brown or blue. Brain coral get their green color from the algae that live with them. || ||
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 * **GROOVY & WAVY: ** Corals come in many shapes and sizes. The brain coral gets its name because its shape resembles the grooves and ridges of the human brain. ||  ||
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<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">Use scissors to cut a piece of needlepoint canvas into a tree-like shape (SEE PICTURE). Don't worry about getting the shape exactly like the model in the photo. || || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">Lay down newspaper, then paint the needlepoint canvas orange, and let it dry. || || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">Weave a THICK orange pipe cleaner through the bottom "trunk" of the canvas (SEE PICTURE). || || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">Using the photo to the right as a model, weave THIN orange #|pipe cleaners into the needlepoint canvas. || ||
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 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">**ONE OF YOUR BIGGEST FANS:** Sea fans may look like plants, but they are actually coral, made of many tiny animals that work together. These animals use their little feathery tentacles to catch plankton as it drifts by. Sea fans are filter-feeders that grow #|perpendicular to a strong current. They're like plankton nets. They don't form part of the hard reef, but grow near it.I'm going to show you how to make a red sea fan. Its scientific name is **//Swiftia kofoidi.//** || [[image:http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/stufftodo_marine/images/step3_realcoral.gif caption="Amy's sea fan and the real thing"]] ||  ||
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<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">Pull apart the plastic strands that make up the pink pom-pom, then cut them into thin strips. || || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">Stuff the pieces of pom-pom into the end of a hair curler. || || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">With scissors, trim the pom-pom threads so they are approximately the same length. || || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">Repeat Steps 2 and 3 until you have four sea anemones. || ||
 * |||||| **<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">AN ANEMONE'S ANATOMY (say that three times fast!): **<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">Sea anemones are predators that usually attach their column-shaped bodies to coral, the sea floor, or rocks. Their tentacles have poisonous stinging cells (called nematocysts) which help them catch small fish, mussels, and other tiny sea creatures. Sea anemones are usually about 1 to 4 inches (2.5 to 10 centimeters) across. || [[image:http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/stufftodo_marine/images/step4_realcoral.gif caption="Amy's anemones and the real thing"]] ||  ||
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<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">**Totally Tubular:** A sponge's body is covered with thousands of tiny holes called pores. The water flowing into the pores provides nutrients and oxygen. As the water flows out, it carries out the organism's waste. || || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">#|Remove the outer covering of a hair curler, so that you are left with a tube with holes. Repeat this step for all 6 to 10 hair curlers. || ||
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<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">Put the different parts of your coral reef into the diorama box. || || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">ood, protect themselves, and so on <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">. || || <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 36pt;">Next Stop: Facts and Information!
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 * [[image:http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/stufftodo_marine/images/02.gif caption="2"]] || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">Congratulations! You did it. Step back and admire your coral reef diorama. Give a friend or family member a personal tour of your reef. Point out the different organisms and explain how they get f



Click the red button, and once you have, if you see it again, click on it a second time for a surprise!
 * [[image:http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/stufftodo_marine/images/spacer.gif]] ||  || <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;">* The world's first coral reefs formed about 500 million years ago.


 * Coral reefs[[image:http://www.amnh.org/ology/cards/images/asterisk.gif align="absmiddle" link="http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/stufftodo_marine/coral_facts.php#"]] are made of millions of tiny, fragile animals called hard coral polyps, living and dead. A group of coral is called a colony.
 * Each different kind of coral, as a community, creates an amazing shaped structure. These architectural shapes are used by scientists to identify corals.
 * Coral polyps feed at night. They have tentacles with small stinging cells called nematocysts. Hard coral also get nutrients from the algae that live on them.
 * Coral reefs are found in shallow water because the algae that live with them need sunlight for photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the process by which plants harness the Sun's energy and use it to turn water and carbon dioxide into their food, sugar. As corals compete for sunlight, the reef gets bigger and bigger.
 * Soft corals like sea fans and sea whips may be part of coral reefs, but they're not reef builders. ||  ||

__Detailed Summary:__
<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Personally, I find coral reefs fascinating. Learning about the wonders of the ocean made me curious to know more. That’s why my

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">partner and I chose to work on the strange organisms in the depts. of the sea. I’ve learn quite a lot, indeed. Let’s start there. What are

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">some things I learned about coral reefs? Well, for one, I found out the first coral reef was formed 500 years ago. (Wow!). Did you know

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">millions of tiny, fragile, animals are called coral polyps? I didn’t, either. There’s a ton to know about coral polyps and you can learn about

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">them at []. Now, I just want to keep it brief, because my partner,

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Aleyssa, will also have a summary. And, I don’t want to overwhelm you! (You’re going to have a lot of facts, no kidding!). Anyway, hope

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">this helped; don’t forget to go and explore more about coral reefs!

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**__Detailed Summary:__**

 * ====== Hi, my name is Aleyssa Nava and my partner, Hima, and I have been working on coral reefs. Coral reefs are colorful reefs with lots of sea creatures, plants, and corals. The reefs grow best in warm, shallow, clear, sunny tropical waters. Coral reefs have been here for millions of years. There's not just one reef, there's three; the Barrier Reef, Fringing Reef, and Coral Atolls Reef. Coral reefs are located in Florida, the Caribbeans, South India, East Africa, and Brazil. Coral reefs provide a safe place for fish to lay their eggs. Some anti-cancer drugs comes from coral reefs. The reef protects shorelines from big waves by absorbing wave energy! In conclusion, I've learned a lot about coral reefs and I hope you did, too. Now it's your turn, you can use this information for your project. Good luck!dick ======

HOW TO MAKE A CORAL REEF PROJECT

1. YOU WILL NEED A CARDBOARD BOX YOU CAN HAVE A SMALL MEDIUM AND A LARGE BOX ANY SIZE IT DOES NOT MATTER

2.BLUE, GREEN , RED AND WHITE PAINT PUT EACH PAINT IN ONE BOWL EACH DO NOT PUT IT IN THE SAME BOWL

3. THEN YOU WILL NEED A BAG FULL OF PLASTIC OCEAN TOY AND PLASTIS CORAL REEF

Hello my name is Omar Flores i will tell you how to make a coral reef project made from a cardboard box



First you will need a cardboard box it dosent matter what size it is

you will need a bottle of blue paint


 * 1) Hi my name is Mecca Gordon and i will tell you that we should keep the sea clean because you don't want the sea to get to dirty because you don't won't it to be the day you taste dirty water.so i'm sowing you guy's.these pic's on it.The coral reef is a nice sea plant because fish and other animals.The second coral reef pic is all nice and cute but let's get back to the real world.the one on top is the real world.We are going to stop the littering it's good for any one .So i'm am going to make an project for the good and bad so this is what is inside an coral reef. all these unlike this is the project i'm going to make an project that look like this with fake fish and my project is going to be cool i'm going to use lots of good thing's.