Life in a Massachusetts Tide Pool

This is a map of plants and animals typically found in a Massachusetts tide pool. To view any organism that interests you, or use the text menu below.

• Who are those critters in the tide pool?

Text menu of articles:

• arthropods
• barnacles
• bryozoans
• fish
• plankton
• sea cucumbers
• Sea squirts
• sea stars
• sea urchins
• The Tides

Activities for educators and parents:

Make seaweed prints
Make a plankton net
Make and model sand clay
Cook seaweed pudding

For Further Reading:

Coulombe, Deborah. The Seaside Naturalist. New Jersy: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1984.

Fox, William T. At The Sea's Edge: An Introduction to Coastal Oceanography for the Amateur Naturalist. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983.

Carson, Rachel. The Rocky Coast. New York: McCall Publishing Co., 1955.

Hay, John. The Sandy Shore. Chatham: Chatham Press, Inc., 1968.