ACTIVITY 1 Reef Partners Wanted
AGE RANGE
Grades 4-8
OBJECTIVE
Students will identify several reef partnerships and describe how the organisms help each other.
KEY WORDS
symbiosis, mutualism, commercialism, parasitism, zooanthellae, photosynthesis
KEY CONCEPTS
Students will identify several reef partnerships and describe how the organisms help each other.
IN THE FILM 
The coral reef is a delicately balanced and linked habitat in which creatures large and small cooperate to build a community – meighbor helping neighbor. As the Crosby, Stills, and Nash song “Our House” plays in the background, the Goby and the shrimp benefit from sharing a home in the reef. The goby gets to live in a great burrow, while the near-sighted shrimp gets a live-in bodyguard. Later in the film, a 300-pund potato cod visits a “cleaning station” at which it allows the tiny wrasse to swim right into its mouth to clean its mouth and gills. The relationship the wrasse has with the potato cod requires mutual trust.
MATERIALS
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OCEAN LITERACY PRINCIPLES IN THIS LESSON
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