Bay watch

Interact with the ecosystem of Malpeque Bay to discover how changing variables like light, oxygen, and nutrients can impact different species in the habitat.

20 min video

1 h 30 min activity

Subjects

Key Concepts

A screenshot from the virtual reality experience "Bay Watch" showing eels and seagrass in Malpeque Bay.

A screenshot from the virtual reality experience, "Bay Watch" showing the control panel where you can change the amount of nutrients used on the agricultural farm and the number of oyster platforms in the oyster farm to change what you see in the underwater environment.

A screenshot from the virtual reality experience, "Bay Watch," showing data that a student collected during their experiment.

1 h 30 min activity

Data analysis: Students are given the data they have collected during the interactive and are led through a variety of data analysis tasks which explore the relationships between nutrients and other variables in the environment.

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Sample data sheet (Google Sheets) Open the data sheet

Credits

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Jac Gautreau

INTERACTIVE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

AKUFEN

PRODUCER (SCIENCE)

Sonya Lee

PRODUCERS (EDUCATION)

Heather De Lagran, Emily Sheepy, Erika Sullivan