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NOAA Education
Oceans & Coasts Links for Teachers

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These items are designed for the teacher to use in the classroom or as background reference material. There is also information about programs that provide training and other opportunities for educators.

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    MARINE EDUCATION RESOURCES

  • 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 Sea Grant Programs at the University of Maine/University of New Hampshire, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. It is based on the publication Marine Science Careers: A Sea Grant Guide to Ocean Opportunities.
    www.marinecareers.net

  • Ocean Explorer - The United States is a country of explorers, but it is only recently that our country has faced the difficult task of exploring our final frontier: the oceans. Over the past few decades we have significantly increased our understanding of the oceans and we are increasingly aware of our dependence on the oceans for healthy fisheries, clean habitats, and the potential to discover new medicines and answer questions about global climate. Yet, 95 percent of the ocean remains unexplored. This site provides a platform to follow ocean explorations in near real-time, to learn about ocean exploration technologies, to observe remote marine flora and fauna in the multimedia gallery, to review NOAA's 200-year history of ocean exploration, and to discover additional NOAA resources in a virtual library.
    oceanexplorer.noaa.gov

  • Lesson Plans from Ocean Explorer The Deep East 2001 Voyage of Discovery: Classroom teachers working with NOAA during July 2001 developed a series of lesson plans for students in Grades 5 – 12 that are specifically tied to the Deep East 2001 Voyage of Discovery. These lesson plans focus on cutting-edge ocean exploration and research, using state-of-the-art technology, aboard one of the nation’s most sophisticated research vessels, the R/V Atlantis and its submersible Alvin. The lesson plans focus specifically on the importance of ocean exploration and the research taking place during the Deep East 2001 Voyage of Discovery, and feature such topics as deep-sea corals off George’s Bank, biodiversity and materials transport at the Hudson Canyon, and gas hydrates on the Blake Ridge. The lesson plans were developed for Grades 5-6, Grades 7-8, and Grades 9-12 (chemical, biological, earth, and physical science).
    http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/deepeast01/background/education/education.html

  • The Bridge - Ocean Science Education Teacher Resource Center - This is a site where teachers will find a selection of the best online resources for ocean sciences education. The goal of the site is to provide educator with content-correct and content-current marine information and data; to support researchers in outreach efforts; and to improve communications among educators and between the education and research communities. "The Bridge" is supported by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program, the National Marine Educators Association and the national network of Sea Grant educators. Sea Grant a partnership program funded by NOAA and the states in which the programs exist.
    www.vims.edu/bridge

  • Science with NOAA Research - This web page provides middle school science students and teachers with research and investigation experiences using on-line resources. Teachers will find information that will help them prepare students for investigating the various sites in this program. Even if the teacher does not have much experience in using web-based activities in science classes, the directions are easy to follow. Topics include ocean temperatures, currents, fisheries, and the Great Lakes.
    www.oar.noaa.gov/k12/

  • A Resource for Teachers - This resource guide, originally developed as part of the 125th Anniversary activities for the National Marine Fisheries Service, can be used in the classroom for students K-12. The packet includes 48 marine fisheries and marine resources worksheets or outlines (plus answer sheets) which can be photocopied.
    www.afsc.noaa.gov/sep/ResGuide_framed.htm

  • NOAA's Resource Guide for Teachers of Marine Science - This resource guide was prepared by staff of the National Marine Fisheries Service to provide a guide on Coastal Awareness in Science for elementary, junior high and high school science teachers. Its purpose is to promote the exploration of ecology and coastal awareness. The guide is divided into a reference to books at the elementary, middle, and high school levels; as well as a section on teacher resources with curriculum guides, lesson plans, bibliographic collections, etc. and audiovisual materials for all age levels, includes CD-ROM, Film and Video. This guide can also be found in a .pdf format at noaabibl.pdf.
    swfsc.ucsd.edu/bibliography/GUIDE.htm

  • Marine Education Links - Another page on this web site has Marine Education links in categories: aquariums, oceans, whales, and environmental groups. this link is useful for getting to non-governmental partners of NOAA.
    www.nero.nmfs.gov/ro/doc/marine3.htm

  • The Sustainable Seas Expeditions Teacher Materials - The Sustainable Seas Expeditions strive to provide high-quality marine science teaching materials that are linked to national standards in science and geography. One of the main goals of the SSE is to provide teachers with the tools to bring new technologies, new knowledge and new learning opportunities to students.
    www.sustainableseas.noaa.gov/aboutsse/education/teacher_materials.htm

  • The Land-Sea Connection: A Teacher Curriculum - This teacher curriculum was developed to complement a new full-color, bathymetric and topographic map of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (information about the map can be found at http://www.mbnmsf.org/pages/sanctuarymap.html) and to help students increase their understanding of science and geography. This curriculum also introduces students to the excitement of real-time underwater exploration with a research mission called Sustainable Seas Expeditions (SSE) on the Internet. The authors of this curriculum recommend using the SSE Teacher Resource Book as it contains many more ideas and activities for enriching and supplementing your science curriculum: www.sanctuaries.nos.noaa.gov/special/special.html#TeacherBook.
    bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov/Educate/teachercurriculum/welcome.html

  • "La Conexión de Mar y Tierra" (The Land-Sea Connection: A Teacher Curriculum) - This is a Spanish translation of the teacher curriculum of The Land-Sea Connection, which was developed to complement a new full-color, bathymetric and topographic map of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (information about the map can be found at http://www.mbnmsf.org/pages/sanctuarymap.html) and to help students increase their understanding of science and geography.
    bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov/Educate/teachercurriculumspanish/welcome.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 reef," 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

  • The Coral Reef Resource Guide - A Compilation of Activities for Middle School Students. - The breathtakingly beautiful coral reefs of the world cover less than a half of one percent of our planet’s sea floor. And yet, these magnificent underwater empires are home to an estimated 25 percent of all oceanic species, a dazzling diversity of sea creatures. Like the teeming metropolis of Rome, a coral reef “was not built in a day.” Rather, the coral heads in a reef grow at a painstakingly slow average rate of half an inch per year and require epochs of geological time to amass into reefs and coral cays.
    www.aquarium.usm.edu/coralreef/index.html

  • Guía de Recurso para Arrecifes de Coral - Una Colección de Actividades para Estudiantes de Escuela Intermedia - Los escpectacularmente bellos arrecifes coralinos del mundo cubren menos de la mitad de un uno porciento del fondo oceánico de nuestro planeta. Aún así, estos magníficos imperios sumergidos, son el hogar para aproximadamente el 25 porciento de todas las especies oceánicas, una impresionante diversidad de criaturas marinas. Al igual que la rebosante metropolis de Roma, un arrecife de coral “no se construyó en un día.” Es más, las cabezas de coral en un arrecife crecen a la penosamente lenta velocidad promedio de media pulgada por año y requieren de épocas geológicas para acumularse en arrecifes y cayos coralinos.
    www.aquarium.usm.edu/coralreef/spcoral/index.html

  • What is Sea Grant? - Through this site, teachers can access the web sites of their local programs, which are located in coastal and Great lakes States and Puerto Rico, and each of which has developed its own method of providing marine and coastal information to teachers. These methods include summer inservice programs, newsletters, lectures, speakers, field trip assistance, and curricula materials in print, electronic and video formats. www.nsgo.seagrant.org/WhatisSeaGrant.html#EDUCATION

  • Sea Grant Media Center Education/General Information Page - To help teachers navigate the many pages of the world wide web, here is a selection of Sea Grant sponsored education web sites.
    www.seagrantnews.org/education/

  • Sea Grant Media Center - This site provides access to the world of marine research and resources available through the National Sea Grant College Program. Links include: Sea Grant News; Coastal Science Experts; Sea Grant on Radio; Sea Grant's Marine Science Calendar of Events; Sea Grant State Program Web Site Directory; Sea Grant Programs' Newsletters, Magazines; Sea Grant's Coastal Tourism Web Sites & Marina Net; Other Coastal & Marine Resources on the Web; Sea Grant Programs' Publications Directory & Ordering Information; as well as a search engine.
    www.seagrantnews.org/index.html

  • The National Sea Grant Depository - The Depository is an archive of all Sea Grant publications and includes more than 72,000 items. This site is a searchable database in which teachers can enter key words to find a variety of materials. Examples of searches that teachers may consider include: classroom activities, curriculum, marine mammals, etc. Many of the publications are available on-line in a pdf format. Also, interlibrary loan is available to teachers, scientists and individuals for research/study purposes. Topics include: Introduction to Searching the Database, Recent Acquisitions, Loan Policies, Video Collection, Ordering Sea Grant Publications, and Links to Sea Grant Home Pages.
    nsgd.gso.uri.edu

  • COAST Resource Guide - This guide, intended to be used by teachers to structure classroom activities, is divided into two sections to reflect the different emphases and requirements of elementary/middle school programs and high school programs. The elementary/middle school section was developed from the award-winning Operation Pathfinder "Best of the Best" and is an electronic version of the Resource Guide for Oceanography and Coastal Processes.
    www.coast-nopp.org/resource_guide/index.html

  • National Ocean Service Educational Materials - This web site provides teachers with the opportunity to learn more about corals and tides and water levels. Educational subjects are organized into the following sections: An Online Tutorial in an easy-to-follow format and in plain, reader-friendly language and an educational "Roadmap to Resources," which complements the subject introduced in the tutorial, and points to specific data offerings within the NOAA family of products. Each subject's section is designed to work together, but they are comprehensive enough to be used on their own.
    www.nos.noaa.gov/education/education.html

  • National Undersea Research Program - Education is everyone's job. Teachers and students cannot do it alone. Hundreds of National Undersea Research Program (NURP) scientists go underwater each year to study coral, reefs, volcanoes, mud and much more. While NURP's main mission is scientific research, its scientists also share their results through partnerships with education and outreach programs.
    http://www.nurp.noaa.gov/education.html

    The Teacher at Sea Program - This program allows a teacher in grade K-16 to apply for the opportunity to serve as a researcher on NOAA Ships. The current application materials and ship schedules are available on-line. A complete application consists of Form A: Participant's Application; forms B and C: Supervisor and Colleague Recommendations; and the Medical History Questionnaire. You need to send your completed application packet at least 3 months prior to your desired sailing date.
    www.tas.noaa.gov

    ESTUARIES

  • 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

  • Education in the National Estuarine Research Reserve System - Education has always played an important role in this office's resource protection mission. Successful education programs include student curricula, field trip programs, adult lectures, teacher workshops, volunteer programs and a wide variety of printed media. This site leads into additional educational sites in the system.
    www.ocrm.nos.noaa.gov/nerr/nerrs_education.html

    FISHERIES AND MARINE PROTECTED RESOURCES

  • Habitats of North Pacific Marine Fish - This 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. This version also includes a key showing a correctly completed version. The link will provide 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/PFELfishteacher.pdf

  • 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 responsible 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

  • National Marine Sanctuary Education Activities - The National Marine Sanctuaries Act of 1972 that established our nation's marine sanctuaries set forth several specific national goals. Science and education were two critically important goals identified in the Act. Guided by these legislative goals, the national program and field offices have evolved major scientific and education programs and activities over the past two decades. Educational activities from the various sanctuary programs can be found at this web site.
    www.sanctuaries.nos.noaa.gov/scied/scied.html

  • Tales of Whales, Turtles, Sharks, and Snails: An Elementary Level Education Handbook - This is a marine study guide for Grades 4-6. The purpose of this publication is to increase the awareness, knowledge and literacy of elementary students in marine-related subjects Also, it's not necessary to be in proximity to a coastal environment in order to benefit from the activities presented in this handbook.
    http://www.graysreef.nos.noaa.gov/tw.html

  • The National Marine Mammal Laboratory's Education Web Site - In the interest of inspiring young people to learn about and care for marine mammals, the National Marine Mammal Laboratory has created this "Education Web" site. With its array of pictures, the quiz, links to other world wide web resources, and science-based content, this site is designed to answer basic questions about marine mammals and marine mammal science. The Education Web site has two sections, a marine mammal science and career section and an animal section.
    nmml.afsc.noaa.gov/education/aboutsite.htm

  • Musical Habitats - This is a classroom activity or game that is written for grades K-5 and on the web in a .pdf format. It teaches students about 6 different marine habitats in a active setting.
    www.nero.nmfs.gov/ro/doc/game2.htm

  • NEMO Education - the newest frontier in oceanographic research is within 200 miles of the coast of Oregon. Explore the deep ocean hot springs and the deep sea creatures.
    http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/nemo/education.html

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Last Updated: 6/30/03

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