Teen Summer STEAM Challenge: Underwater Ecosystems

Teens (grades 6-12) participate in the Teen Summer STEAM Challenge to earn extra prizes. These activities can be found under "Activity Badges" when you register for "Teen Summer Reading Club 2022" in Beanstack. 

Each week a new set of themed activities will be released. You only have to complete one of the activities to earn that week’s badge and a small prize you can pick up at the Children’s Desk at Greenfield or Sugar Creek.

Earn all six badges to be entered to win a microscope!

Just now starting the STEAM challenge? Don't worry! Once a themed week has been released you can do any of the activities to earn that week's badge until August 1. 

Week 3: Underwater Ecosystems

The ocean is so vast that it contains a multitude of different underwater ecosystems. According to National Geographic, these ecosystems include “the abyssal plain (areas like deep sea coral, whale falls, and brine pools), polar regions such as the Antarctic and Arctic, coral reefs, the deep sea (such as the community found in the abyssal water column), hydrothermal vents, kelp forests, mangroves, the open ocean, rocky shores, salt marshes and mudflats, and sandy shores.”

Complete at least one of the following activities under the "Underwater Ecosystems" badge:

• Tell us your theory as to why the Blue Mud Shrimp is hard to find in the Blue Mud Shrimp Mystery.
• Play the Smithsonian's online game "Secrets of the Sea."
• Play Ecosystem Jenga.
• Make an edible coral reef.
• Solve an ecosystem related math question.