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The Dead Zone: Marine Horror Story
http://www2.vims.edu/bridge/DATA.cfm?Bridge_Location=archive1099.html
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This data tip from Bridge, the Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center archive, includes a variety of educational sites to visit, and a data exercise on water quality in which students graph dissolved oxygen versus depth in the Gulf of Mexico dead zone where the Mississippi River enters the Gulf. The data is from the Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity Program (NECOP).
Intended for grade levels:
  • Intermediate (3-5)
  • Middle (6-8)
  • High (9-12)
Type of resource:
  • For the classroom:
    • Lesson plan
  • Dataset:
    • In-situ
Subject:
  • Ocean Sciences:
    • Biological oceanography
    • Chemical oceanography
Technical requirements:
Includes Microsoft Excel graphing exercise.
Cost / Copyright:
No cost
Copyright Sea Grant Marine Advisory Services, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, College of William and Mary. Unless otherwise noted, Bridge webpages may be reproduced for non-profit educational use provided Virginia Sea Grant, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and the National Marine Educators Association are credited.
DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-003-679
Educational standards:
  • National Science Education Standards (NSES):
    • 5-8:
      • A - Science as inquiry:
        • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
        • Understanding about scientific inquiry
      • F - Science in personal / social perspectives:
        • Populations, resources, environments
    • 9-12:
      • A - Science as inquiry:
        • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
        • Understandings about scientific inquiry
      • F - Science in personal / social perspectives:
        • Environmental quality
Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Contact: Lisa Ayers Lawrence
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Sea Grant Marine Advisory Services