LEARNING OBJECTIVESStudents will: discover importance of plankton in the marine ecosystem classify some important animal and plant plankton use a key to identify and recognize the basic characteristics of common inshore marine phytoplankton and zooplankton estimate the relative abundance of plankton in a sample observe the diversity and locomotion of plankton in a living sampleBackpack Sciences is a membership that helps educators overcome the overwhelm in teaching hands-on, inquiry-based elemen