This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches students about the various resources provided by the worlds oceans. 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 level. The major ... Full description.

This six-day unit provides an in-depth look at the dynamic forces at work on the sea floor. Throughout the unit, students collect their findings in a portfolio. The comprehensive curriculum materials include teacher tools with individually downloadable readings, detailed daily breakdowns of tasks that include teacher strategies for using the activities, a portfolio grading sheet, a project rubric ... Full description.

This teaching box is designed to teach students about the biotic and abiotic factors that drive the process of upwelling in the oceans. Students will deepen their understanding of the dynamics that create a seasonal abundance of marine life in coastal upwelling zones by exploring marine food webs, primary food production in the ocean, density and wind-driven currents, and seasonal changes in resources. ... Full description.

This article describes some of the technological tools used by ocean researchers and how they are employed. Users can read about the uses of satellites, shipboard computer systems, sonar systems, GIS (geographic information system), and hand-held computers or personal digital assistants (PDAs) in oceanographic research. A variety of other moored, floating, or towed instruments are also descrobed. ... Full description.

The Voyage of the Odyssey is a five-year program designed to gather the first ever baseline data on levels of synthetic contaminants throughout the oceans of the world. It uses whales, albatrosses and pelagic fish as indicator species for measuring the health of the seas. There is a map to locate the current position of the Odyssey and ship logs, video, and audio reports to learn about the experiences ... Full description.

This diagram illustrates some of the most abundant stores of carbon and identifies some of the pathways in the carbon cycle along which carbon is transferred from one form to another. Long-term sinks of carbon are labelled in black; shorter-term fluxes are labelled in purple. Amounts are in billions of tons. Full description.

In this lesson, students learn about the occurrence and significance of methane hydrates on the Blake Ridge offshore Charleston, South Carolina. They will be able to define methane hydrates and describe where these substances are typically found and how they are believed to be formed. Students will also describe at least three ways in which methane hydrates could have a direct impact on their own ... Full description.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is a component of the UK Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) environmental data center network and has designated responsibility for marine data. BODC's mission is to operate a world class data center in support of UK marine science by maintaining and developing the UK's national oceanographic database, developing innovative marine data products ... Full description.

The Marine Science Pictionary is a lexicon of basic terms which were used during the problem-based learning experiences on the RV "Connecticut". These were used by students from the American School for the Deaf who were participating in the Classroom of the Sea program. The Pictionary includes marine science terms in alphabetical order, pictures (some animated), written definitions, video representations ... Full description.

This report describes a project in which a team of scientists on board the research vessel 'Ronald H. Brown' are measuring the amounts of ozone absorbed and interchanged from the atmosphere into the oceans. Topics include how the ozone is to be measured and the possible role played by plankton in ozone interchanges. There is also a tutorial on ozone, a glossary, and brief biographies of the researchers ... Full description.