Options to evaluate student understanding include the following: • Local MPA Project: Students choose an MPA in their area (ideally, city or county) on which to report. They can use art skills to design a brochure to get people to visit their MPA or educate guests about the MPA’s take/no-take rules.
• Design an MPA: Working in small groups, students can design and propose a hypothetical MPA in their region. They should describe why they selected that area to be protected; social, economic, and political impacts; whether the MPA will be take or no-take; what kind of human activities will be allowed inside; and the habitat(s) it will protect. Students can create trifold poster boards to present their MPAs in a gallery-walk-style exhibition.
4. Students could also write a research paper about the MPA, make a Youtube video, write letters to local government officials in support of MPAs, or propose their own creative project.
Appendix A: Marine bioregions list
Figure 1: Marine bioregions around the globe. From Azmi, F., Primo, C., Hewitt, C. L., & Campbell, M. L. (2014). Assessing
marine biosecurity risks when data are limited: bioregion pathway and species-based exposure analyses. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 72(3), 1078-1091.
Marine Bioregions
1. Antarctica 2.
Arctic
3. Mediterranean 4. North West Atlantic 5. North East Atlantic 6. Baltic 7. Wider Caribbean Sea 8. West Africa 9.
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10. Central Indian Ocean 11. Arabian Seas 12. East Africa 13. East Asian Seas 14. South Pacific 15. North East Pacific 16. North West Pacific 17. South East Pacific 18. Australia and New Zealand
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