Bay watch

Take a virtual reality tour of Malpeque Bay, PEI, in this interactive simulation. Change how much fertilizer is used on the agricultural farm, then dive into the Bay to find out how those changes affect the habitat. See how human activities like oyster farming and nutrient pollution impact the health of the eelgrass and the species that call eelgrass beds home. Collect data in the simulation that you can download and graph using a spreadsheet program.

20 min virtual reality

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.