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Caitlin Bartlett of Wildlife Conservation Society and Dr. Arthur Kopelman discussing harbor seals, with a video of seals in 'banana pose.’
Close-up of WaterWays Restoring Ecosystems game showing a marine food web with sun, producers, and consumers, ready for drag-and-drop activity.
Screenshot from WaterWays: Exploring Ecosystems with a seal swimming in the ocean. The description explains that seals don’t eat oysters, but their favorite foods like fish and crabs hide in oyster reefs.
Screenshot from WaterWays: Exploring Ecosystems with an illustration of an oyster. The description instructs users to tap to make the oyster’s cilia move.
Screenshot from WaterWays: Exploring Ecosystems with an illustration of a beach. The description instructs users to place stickers on the beach to restore Wavy Bay’s ecology.
Detailed illustration of an opened oyster with a pink interior.

WaterWays Restoring Ecosystems

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Part of the WaterWays series, Restoring Ecosystems is an augmented reality experience that engages students to think like a scientist. Kids learn about the helpfulness of oyster reefs when it comes to water, flood reduction, and more before hypothesizing what they may do to build a better ecosystem. Designed for grades 3 through 5 with funding from the National Institutes of Health, Restoring Ecosystems provides 40 minutes of interactive activities and a personalized digital science journal.

What's Included
  • Subscription includes 1 child account under 1 parent account.
  • Personalized digital science journal and an augmented reality experience, accessible by phone or browser using webVR. 
  • 40 minutes of interactive activities where students are scientists engaged with water science and water stewardship.
How to Use It
  • Restoring Ecosystems works on any laptop, computer, or tablet. The virtual reality part can be accessed as WebVR on any web-enabled device.
  • Kids go through this experience independently reading or using the read-aloud function.
  • Kids will spend a total of approximately 40 minutes observing phenomena, gathering data, answering questions, constructing models, and developing and testing hypotheses.
Why It Works
  • Aligns with Next Generation Science Standards.
  • Piloted with more than 900 children and 40 teachers over two years.
  • Developed in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society, Hudson River Park, and the Mount Sinai Transdisciplinary Center on Early Environmental Exposures.
  • In research funded by the National Institutes of Health, 76% of student respondents agreed that WaterWays helped them see themselves as a scientist.

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