Chesapeake
Bay Activity Book - This book for young children provides information
on the Chesapeake Bay watershed and gives them the opportunity to color,
connect the dots, try word searches and even make recipes.
www.nccos.noaa.gov/education/cbbook/cbbook.pdf
Kohola and Kolea - The Whale and the Plover
- This coloring book is
written in both Hawaiian and in English.
www.education.noaa.gov/books/whlplvr/whlplvr.htm

Marine Debris Coloring Book
- This coloring book helps kids understand
how to recognize the hazards of throwing junk into the ocean and
overboard from boats.
www.education.noaa.gov/books/debris/debris1.htm
Pacific Coral Reef Coloring Book
- This coloring book lets kids see the
beauty and value of coral reefs.
www.education.noaa.gov/books/paccoral/pacreef.htm
Puffy the Puffer Book of Fun Fish Facts
- A coloring book for kids that
highlights marine trivia, games, mazes, a quiz and more.
www.education.noaa.gov/books/puffy/puffy.html
Adopt A Buoy Activity Book
- There are two pages to color on this site
and the site focuses on the activities of the data buoys that provide
information about the oceans surrounding the United States and its
territories.
www.education.noaa.gov/books/adopt/adopt0.html
Tsunami for Kids -
the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program works to reduce the
impact of tsunamis. "Tsunami, the Great Waves" is a site for kids to
learn about tsunamis, the long ocean waves
which are frequently caused by underwater volcanoes.
www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/kids.html
Habitats of North Pacific Marine Fish - This coloring exercise teaches how
fish prefer different parts of the ocean. Temperatures vary in different parts of
the ocean, and different fish are adapted to live in these different temperatures.
Students color in a map of the North Pacific and then add stickers of different
fish species based upon information provided on where the fish like to live.
The teacher version, at www.pfeg.noaa.gov/research/publications/PDF/PFELfishteacher.pdf,
includes a key showing a correctly completed version. The link provides a
downloaded, color printable version of the exercise and "print your own" fish stickers
in Adobe Acrobat format. This page takes at least 90 seconds to download. The fish
stickers are printed on Avery laser labels, style #5160.
www.pfeg.noaa.gov/research/publications/PDF/PFELfishkids.pdf

Specially for Students - These items are designed especially
for students (grades 6-12) to provide a way of learning about the earth in a
fun and informative way.
Marine Careers
- The site includes overviews of the fields of marine
biology, oceanography, and ocean engineering; a look at what the future
is likely to hold for careers in these fields; links to a wide range of
additional resources; information on salaries in various marine science
fields; and other great stuff. This site is a project of the National
Sea Grant College Program and is based on the publication Marine
Science Careers: A Sea Grant Guide to Ocean Opportunities.
www.marinecareers.net
Office of Response
and Restoration
- This site for students helps teach about how NOAA and other agencies respond
to oil spills and hazardous chemical accidents. It also contains some
experiments to try.
response.restoration.noaa.gov/kids/kids.html
Spuzzled for Kids
- This site takes NOAA images and offers students the chance to put those images into
the correct order while also learning more about the environmental work of the Agency.
There are four spuzzles in this section: Charting and Navigation, Coasts, Oceans, and
Fisheries.
scijinks.jpl.nasa.gov/noaa/spuzzled/index.shtml
Estuaries -
Where Rivers Meet the Sea
- This site has two purposes:
1. Provide information on National Estuaries Day activities, such as
Estuary Live and local National Estuarine Research Reserve and
National Estuary Program events.
2. Serve as a long-term resource for information on the importance of
estuaries and the need to protect them. This is an interagency Web
site intended to provide students, educators and the general public
with information on a variety of estuarine issues.
estuaries.gov
Viewing Protected Marine Species in the Wild -
This web page helps the public understand its responsibilities to marine mammals
in the wild. The National Marine Fisheries Service is reponsible for managing and
protecting whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and sea lions, and it has regulations
prohibiting feeding these marine mammals in the wild. There are also restrictions
as to how close we can get to these animals.
www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/MMWatch/MMViewing.html
LEARN ABOUT BRAIN-EATING SEA SQUIRTS AND MORE AT HAWAII'S FUN SITE -
Interesting and useful information abounds on Hawaii Sea Grant's
award-winning Sea Squirt website. First, visitors learn that "after
finding a suitable rock or place to call home, juvenile red sea squirts
no longer need their brains, so they eat them. Shaka the shark doles out
advice for kids visiting the
beach. "Don't stand on coral reefs," and "Use the restroom, not the
ocean," are two of his points. Downloads include a marine activity
workbook, several coloring and activity books and marine life icons for
your computer. Links for teachers, kids and parents, a quiz to test
knowledge of Hawaiian sea life and a virtual aquarium are more features
on the site.
www.soest.hawaii.edu/SEAGRANT/kids/indexkids.html
Science with NOAA Research - This web page provides middle
school students with research and investigation experiences using on-line
resources. Even if you do not have much experience in using web-based
activities in science, the directions here are easy to follow. Ocean
topics include ocean temperatures, currents, fisheries, and the Great
Lakes.
www.oar.noaa.gov/k12/
The NOAA Ship and the Student Connection - the NOAA Ship TOWNSEND
CROMWELL conducts fishery and living marine resource research in support
of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), from the Honolulu
Laboratory in Hawaii. The ship normally operates in the
Pacific in and around the Hawaiian Island Archipelago. It collects fish
and crustacean specimens using bottom trawls, longlines, and fish traps.
Fish larvae, eggs and plankton are also collected using plankton nets
and surface and midwater larval nets. The CROMWELL maintains a web site
titled Student Connection. The web site utilizes the Internet and
Inmarsat (satellite communications), to provide twice weekly communication
between students and the research ship. Through this web site, students can follow the
vessel's daily operations through regularly posted pictures and
write-ups.
www.pmc.noaa.gov/tc/index.htm