The Maury Project is the American Meteorological Society's comprehensive national program of teacher enhancement based on studies of the physical foundations of oceanography. Major components of the program include: (a) the development of a cadre of master oceanographic education resource teachers who provide peer training opportunities for their colleagues throughout the country, and (b) the dissemination ... Full description.

This site is a collaborative effort to organize and distribute Matlab tools for the oceanographic community. Matlab is multi-platform software that provides numeric computation, technical graphics and visualization, and an intuitive programming language for applications in engineering and science. This site provides links to and downloads of code for oceanographic data analysis tools, including time ... Full description.

This site provides animated visualizations of coastal circulation models of the northeast coast of the United States. Data are outputs from a variety of simulation models. Specific topics are: Comparison of Effluent Concentration from the Existing and Future Boston Harbor Sewage Outfalls, Tidal Flushing of Boston Harbor, Simulated Particle Trajectories Under a Steady Northeast Wind, Upwelling in Massachusetts ... Full description.

This tide and tide prediction resource directory links to online tide predictors, tide observations/sea level measurements, tide prediction software you install to generate tide predictions on demand, and general information on tides and tide prediction. Full description.

Seven short animations present a tour under the Pacific Ocean based on real data about the sea floor's peaks and valleys. Visitors submerge near Hawaii, continue as if in a submarine to Japan, and finally dive to the ocean's deepest point in the Marianas Trench, between Japan and New Guinea. The tour is based on bathymetric, topographic, and astronomical data provided by the University of Hawaii and ... Full description.

A joint effort of NOAA Research and the College of Education at the University of South Alabama, this site seeks to provide middle school science students and teachers with research and investigation experiences using on-line resources. In this unit, students investigate ocean temperature around the world, and how it varies during the year and at different locations. This helps explain what causes ... Full description.

The Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL), hosted by the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL), is the global data bank for long term sea level change information from tide gauges. The PSMSL data set is the main source of information on long term changes in global sea level during the last two centuries. This site contains data sets, and information on other services such as vertical land ... Full description.

This lesson plan is part of the DiscoverySchool.com lesson plan library for grades 6-8. It focuses on oceans currents and their effects. Students do a lab activity to show that temperature is what causes ocean currents. Included are objectives, materials, procedures, discussion questions, evaluation ideas, suggested readings, and vocabulary. There are videos available to order which complement this ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches students about the physical features of the oceans. This includes oceanography terms, labeling and locating oceans on maps, and identifying five features of the ocean floor. 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 ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan covers ocean currents, how they form, patterns, and how they affect the Earth. 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.