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For more materials on horseshoe
crabs:
Students can research creatures that rely on horseshoe crabs
(Epibionts) http://www.brookdalecc.edu/staff/sandyhook/tripdata/creature/horseshoe/index.htm
and the "Shorebird Connection" at http://sssp.fws.gov
RESOURCES:
Websites:
www.horseshoecrab.org
Ecological Research & Development Group in Delaware provides
information about horseshoe crabs, models, and sources for educators.
This provides many links to horseshoe crab sites, including the
outstanding Green Eggs & Sand curriculum project. (Aquatic
Resource Education Center, 4876 Hay Point Rd., Smyrna, Delaware
19977)
www.dnr.state.md.us/education/horsehoecrab/raising.html
Maryland Department of Natural Resources sponsors a "Raising
Horseshoe Crabs" project and other activities for students.
www.lsc.usgs.gov/2065/index.asp
The U.S. Geological Survey coordinates spawning surveys and tagging
projects in Delaware Bay.
www.ocean.udel.edu/horseshoecrab
University of Delaware's Sea Grant Program has a wealth of information
about horseshoe crabs.
http://sssp.fws.gov
The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Shorebird Sister Schools
Project features many activities including shorebird migration
and tracking projects.
www.hup.harvard.edu/harvard.edu/catalog/SHUAME.html
This link is to the 2004 monograph The American Horseshoe Crab
(Carl Shuster, et al)
www.ufrsd.net/staffwww/Stefanl/Crab%20Booklet.PDF
This link is to The Horseshoe Crab Activity Book produced by
Allentown High School students for use by elementary students.
www.k12.de.us/warner/introhsc.html
This site is developed by 5th graders from Warner School in Delaware
and contains activity pages and puzzles.
Go to: www.vims.edu/BRIDGE/
Click on "Ocean Science" in the navigation menu to
the left,
Then: "Biology"
Then "Invertebrates"
The Ocean Institute
www.brookdalecc.edu/staff/sandyhook/index.html
Brookdale College's Ocean Institute at Sandy Hook (New Jersey)
provides field trip
and teacher training programs, and has produced activity books
and the
DVD: Learning With Limulus as resources for schools.
The Horseshoe Crab Pages:
http://www.brookdalecc.edu/staff/sandyhook/tripdata/creature/horseshoe/index.htm
Virtual Tour of Sandy Hook and world famous Horseshoe Cove
http://www.brookdalecc.edu/staff/sandyhook/hookmap.htm
Field Notes
http://www.brookdalecc.edu/staff/sandyhook/dgrant/field/index.htm
Marine life
http://www.brookdalecc.edu/staff/sandyhook/taxonomy/index.htm
Horseshoe crab Quizzes
http://www.brookdalecc.edu/staff/sandyhook/quizzes/index.htm
Articles:
Bulloch, David, 1993 Eye Got Rhythm Underwater Naturalist,
Vol. 23, No. 1
American Littoral Society, Highlands, NJ 07732, September 1993.
Dunlap, Julie, 1999 Extraordinary Horseshoe Crabs.
Carolroda Nature Watch Books, Lerner Pub., Minneapolis. 1-57505-293-8
Grant, Dave, 1998 Living on Limulus - Underwater Naturalist,
Vol. 24, No. 2 pp. 13-21 American Littoral Society, Highlands,
NJ 07732, September 1998.
Grant, Dave, 2001 (In Limulus in the Limelight: A Species
350 Million Years in the Making and in Peril?) Edited by John
Tanecredi; Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2001)
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v2572x5tn072j155/
Grant, Dave, 2002, Hitchin' a Ride (In Naturalist at Large)
Natural History Magazine, June 2002, pp. 66-69.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_5_111/ai_86684505
Shuster, Carl N. et al, 2004 The American Horseshoe Crab,
Harvard University Press
ISBN 10:0-674-01158-7
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/SHUAME.html
NATIONAL SCIENCE STANDARDS:
Content Standard C: Life Science
Structure and function in living systems
Diversity and adaptations of organisms
Content Standard F: Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
Populations, resources and environments
CONNECTIONS TO OTHER SUBJECTS:
Geological change, Ecology, Evolution, Medicine, Resource Management,
Language Arts
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Dave Grant
Ocean Institute
Brookdale Community College
Box 533, Sandy Hook, NJ 07732
732.224.2435
732.872.1110 (fax)
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