This website complements the book "Dr. Art's Guide to Planet Earth" written by Dr. Art Sussman. The website includes animations, lesson plans and experiments that can be used in conjunction with the book. The number of items are continually being increased as a result of collaboration with K-12 teachers and field testing. It also includes the complete text of the first chapter which introduces systems ... Full description.

This National Park Service (NPS) publication discusses Dry Tortugas National Park in Florida. This system consists of 7 small islands off the coast of Key West. The site discusses the history of this area, as well as the marine setting of the park. Full description.

This Discovery Channel feature is a live expedition with the American Museum of Natural History. Marine biologists studying the barrier reefs in the Bahamas provide information on scavenger sea worms, brain coral, shell-less nudibranches, sea turtles and sharks, and many other ocean creatures. The scientists also track the various species of the reef using NASA images from space. Photographs and descriptions ... Full description.

This website integrates video footage and information with lesson plans and activities to teach students about the intertidal zone of the oceans. This zone is a habitat for only a few species due to extreme fluctuations in moisture level, heat, salinity, and sunlight. The activities in this unit are designed to enable students to investigate the creatures of these zones and how they have adapted to ... Full description.

This site is designed to teach elementary students about ocean life. Through images and large text, it provides basic information and descriptions of animals that live in various ocean habitats, including: Sandy Beach, Tide Pool, Kelp Forest, and the Open Seas. Full description.

This website provides a variety of photos and text to teach students about life in the oceans. Various animals discussed include fish, sharks, dolphins, octopus, starfish, eels, lobster and jellyfish. Students choose an animal to look at, view some facts about that animal, and then answer questions based on the information given. The objective is for young elementary students to be able to distinguish ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan ocean lifeforms, how animals depend on one another and on plants for food, and the ocean food chain. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The Classroom Connectors address content with an activity approach while incorporating themes necessary to raise the activity to a higher cognition ... Full description.

WhaleNet is an interactive educational web site that focuses on whales and marine research, and is divided into student, teacher, and public sections. There are whale photographs, whale satellite tagging data, a Humpback Whale catalog, and maps and reports of whale sightings. Students can send questions to an expert in marine science, research whale behavior and classification, follow satellite tagged ... Full description.

This website is a network of systematic, ecological, and environmental information systems. Collectively, these systems operate as a dynamic, global digital atlas to communicate biological information about the ocean. Tools include: a c-squares mapper (a Perl utility) which plots dataset exents on a range of base maps, according to a string of c-squares passed to it via the web; a geographical information ... Full description.

In this educational adventure story for grades four through seven, the reader steps into the starring role of Ace, assistant investigator to Paula Pacific, who is assigned to examine unusual behaviors noticed in killer whale populations in the Alanamorris Strait. As they pass through the story, students will complete a number of ocean-related activities, which will lead them to the solution of the ... Full description.