The microworld of plankton

The watery world of phytoplankton and zooplankton is a daily drama—an ocean teeming with plants and animals. It’s the ocean like you’ve never seen it before. Shrink down as we enter the ocean microworld and discover the strange, the beautiful, the indispensable—plankton.

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Draw a Venn diagram: Students learn about phytoplankton and zooplankton, then develop a Venn diagram to identify some of their similarities and differences. Finally, they dive deeper by creating a species trading card.

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Hakai Institute

Production

Josh Silberg, Meigan Henry

Writing

John Silberg

Editing

Kristina Blanchflower

Narration (English version)

Kristina Blanchflower

Narration (French version)

Caroline Binet

Videography

Bennett Whitnell, Grant Callegari

Microscopy

Alana Closs, Noriko Okamoto, Tyrel Froese, Kyle Hall

Additional footage

Tavish Campbell, David Young, Storyblocks

Production (French version)

École de l'Océan