This live-active video will help students to learn and better understand the ecosystem of a marsh.
After this lesson, students will be able to:
• define ecosystem
• explain the salt marsh ecosystem
• describe plants and animals found in the salt marsh

STANDARDS
• Common Core State Standards (CCSS) ELA Literacy SL.3.4—Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant,descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
• Standards for the English Language Arts (NCTE/IRA)—Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements
appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
• Next Generation Science Standards (NSTA) 2-LS4-1—Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
• Next Generation Science Standards (NSTA) 3-LS4-3—Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.