Lessons

LESSONS AND RESOURCES IN OCEAN SCIENCE TOPICS

Global and Southeast Climate Change

• COSEE SouthEast Climate Change Forum
  A forum developed to both provide credible climate change information to educators and their students and to create a social network between educators and ocean and climate scientists.
  
• Climate Change Activities
  

Physics, Physical Science, Waves and Currents

• The Maury Project
• Using Sound in Marine Research (Word doc.)

Earth Systems Science

• "BOTTOMS-UP" Research Cruises, SkIO, Savannah, GA.  Karen Moyd and Jeff Graham
  Read the Greenville News article: ’Moyd’s ocean adventures open eyes to research"
  View the PowerPoint (26MB), HTML version; PDF document
  Download "BOTTOMS-UP" Curriculum and Marine Science Activity Book Word Document (29 MB)
  

Biology, Ecology, Ecosystems, Life Sciences, Life in the Sea

• 2009 Creature Features

• Sea Seekers
  

• NOAA’s Coral Reef Information System
  

• The Aquatic Project SC Aquarium
  

• NOAA’s Coral Reef Information System

• Georgia’s Wetland Treasures is a 218-page Georgia wetland teacher resource activity book that includes fact sheets, activities, and information guides. Containing field guides, worksheets, activity directions and much more, this comprehensive guide is intended for classroom use. The manual is not copyrighted and teachers/leaders are welcome to copy any of the pages for educational purposes.

• Marine Mammals Powerpoint 

• "Georgia’s Amazing Coast": Follow the link below to find the beautifully illustrated color plates of southeastern coastal

  

  natural and cultural life--plants, animals and coastal habitats from Georgia Sea Grant publication, Georgia’s Amazing Coast.
  
  

• You will find the link to lessons for Grade 3-5, which support the Georgia Sea Grant publication, Georgia’s Amazing Coast.

  Georgia’s Amazing Coast (Lessons)

Geology, Shorelines, Geography, and the Seafloor

• Continental Margins Educational Powerpoint: Margins: Learning from Sediment
  
• Windows to the Deep
  PowerPoint Part One: Science by Margaret Olsen, SECOSEE, Education Specialist
  PowerPoint Part Two: The Alvin Launch and Recovery by Margaret Olsen, SECOSEE, Education Specialist
  Activity: Raise the Sub
  Activity: In Plain Sight
  In Plain Sight Activity sheet
  

• Exploring Plate Tectonics
  Activities Outline (PDF file with links to lessons)

• Coastal Processes and Conflicts: North Carolina Outer Banks
  
  

• Online Educator’s Guide to Marine Debris 2009
  * Funding for this work provided by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0527849.
  
  
• Marine Debris Education Power Point Presentation
  
  
• Turning the Tide on TRASH Pollution Solutions (PPT file 36MB) 
  
  
• Lessons and New Resources for Marine Debris
  
  
• Australian Marine Environment Protection Association: Marine Debris Resource
  
  
• Troubled Waters: The illusion of abundance, University of N.C. at Wilmington. This water quality online resource tackles issues such as how scarce the fresh water is becoming throughout the world, significant impacts on human health and economic development, as well as political conflicts that are related to the use and overuse of this finite resource. Appropriate for grades 5 - 15. Troubled Waters Analysis.
  
  
• The Ocean Project
  
  
• The Drifters Project, an ongoing interdisciplinary project focusing on marine debris and plastic pollution created by Pam Longobardi, a distinguished art professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
  
  
• Link to COSEE Marine Debris from Land to Sea Poster
  
  
• Marine Photobank Project run by SeaWeb.
  
  
• New Hampshire Marine Debris Resource
  
  
• The California Coastal Commision Educational Resource Page
  

Coastal Ocean Observing and Remote Sensing

• South East Coastal Observing Regional Association (SECOORA)
  
  
• COOL Classroom
  
  
• COSEE NOW
  
  
• SEACOOS: Community and Classroom

• "Connecting Educators to Remote Sensing Data" through The Science House, NCSU

  Investigating the Ocean-Gulf Stream
  Investigating the Ocean-Coral Bleaching
  Investigating the Ocean-Upwelling
  Investigating the Ocean-El Nino/La Nina
  Investigating the Oean-Algae Blooms
  Investigating the Ocean-Coastal Water

Hurricanes

• NOAA hurricane tracking education: Follow that Hurricane! (pdf)
  

General Resources

• SC Educational TV Know it all
  
  
• Bridge - Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resourse Center, Sea Grant and National Marine Education Association. If you are looking for a one-stop site for marine science and education, look no further! This site provides links for obtaining lesson plans, electronic resources, oceanographic data, etc.
  
  
• DLESE (Digital Library of Earth Systems Education). DLESE resources include electronic materials for both teachers and learners, such as lesson plans, maps, images, data sets, visualizations, assessment activities, curriculum, online courses, and much more.