My project for the fair was a homemade ecosystem of the ocean. I obviously didn’t have all of the animals, but I had the ones most people knew about: fish, dolphins, sharks, octopus, crabs, starfish, sea turtles, and coral.
The idea of the game was that you would roll a die and the number equaled a problem that humans make for the coral reefs and their inhabitants. For example: Say you rolled a one, that means that the mangroves get logged to make new tourist locations. This means that all the fish hiding in their roots are now homeless and the barrier for much sand, debris, trash, ect. is now gone. Then with the player’s help I “acted” out the problem (in this case the mangroves being logged) so that they could see how bad the problem really was and how one problem led to the next in a chain reaction.
While making this project, I learned about the ocean ecosystem and how everything is connected, and what the different animals ate, more or less. I enjoyed making my project. It was hard, but fun all the same.
From Ben:
For my part in the reef event I had an exhibit about how and what makes coral reefs interesting. I had a documentary playing, and on the side I had information about the different types of fish that were talked about in the movie that people could pass around, including the lion fish, crown of thorns starfish, pipefish, harlequin shrimp, and humped-head parrotfish.
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