Guess the Ocean Animal Play a classic guessing game with unique ocean animals, then identify animals in photo data from dives via a mobile game or online database. Students play a guessing game to learn about less famous ocean animals, using images from Okeanos and MBARI dives. Students will connect and compare anatomy within phylum and between phyla. Students then use explore and share with the class photo data from MBARI dives or the FathomVerse mobile game. At the end of the lesson, students take a quiz to identify a selection of animals from dive images, and use their information from the lesson to explain their reasoning. Cover Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Mountains in the Deep: Exploring the Central Pacific Basin. Topics Deep Sea Authors Elizabeth Corvi and Isabel Shinnick-Gordon Teacher Resources5E Lesson PlanSlidesAnimal Game Template Student ResourcesStudent WorksheetStudent InstructionsField Guide Additional ResourcesFathomVerse Game – an app-based community science game that enables players to interact with real ocean images collected by researchers and contribute to the process of teaching AI how to classify marine animals. Within the FathomVerse app, the animal library describes how to visually identify 50+ different morphological animal groups. FathomNet Website – an online database for expert-labeled ocean imagery. Users can browse imagery from around the world and see where they were taken. Berkeley Evolution Tree Primer Room – a website with a walk-through in how to read evolutionary trees. Helpful background information for a teacher or a usable resource for secondary students in understanding phylogenetic trees. This website also has many resources about the evolution of animal groups or certain organs (like the eye)NOAA Ocean Exploration Media – Images and videos from NOAA ocean dives.MBARI Ocean Animals of the Deep – Media about select ocean animals from MBARIEnrichmentStudents may participate in a community science project using camera data. Zooniverse often has projects using camera dataStudents may play the fathomverse mobile gameEARTH Thinking-Sinking GameEARTH Citizen Science using JellyWatch Next Generation Science StandardsCrosscutting ConceptsPatternsStructure and function Core IdeasLS4.A: Evidence of Common Ancestry and DiversityLS3.B: Variation of TraitsLS4.C: AdaptationPracticesObtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating InformationAnalyzing and Interpreting Data Ocean Literacy Fundamental Concepts5: The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.