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The
materials
provided
with
this
collection
present
the
facts
surrounding
the
spill
and
ongoing
research,
monitoring,
and
restoration
efforts.
More
general
education
products
from
previous
spills
are
provided
to
help
educators
present
the
concepts
of
human
impacts
on
the
ocean,
oil
specific
impacts,
spill
clean-up,
and
the
effects
of
toxins
on
natural
environments.
Toolkit
of
educational
materials
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In
this
activity
students
will
become
familiar
with
oceanography
terms
by
writing
an
oceanography
horror
story.
Terms
include
sea
floor
features,
marine
organisms,
oceanographic
sampling,
and
creative
writing.
Students
can
use
their
imaginations
to
good
advantage
in
this
activity,
but
they
must
get
the
facts
right!
For
example,
they
can
change
one
characteristic
of
an
organism,
such
as
increasing
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Educational standards associated with this resource:
National Science Education Standards (NSES): Read
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This video segment, adapted ftom a NOVA broadcast, provides an account of the 1995 avalanche that overran the fishing village of Flateyri, Iceland, killing 20 people. It also points out the unpredictability of such natural disasters and describes some of the Icelandic government's efforts to mitigate the risk. The segment is four minutes seventeen seconds in length.
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This resource references :
Antarctic Ice Movement: Part I -
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Thermoluminescence
(TL)
dating
is
an
important
technique
used
to
determine
the
ages
of
some
ancient
earth
materials;
in
this
case,
sediments
and
certain
ancient
artifacts.
TL
energy
is
stored
in
the
form
of
trapped
electrons
and
quartz
sand
is
the
most
commonly
used
mineral
employed
in
the
dating
process.
Topics
which
are
discussed
include
basic
principles
of
TL
dating,
sampling
techniques
and
strategies,
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This
mapping
product
from
the
National
Weather
Service
allows
users
to
view
and
download
precipitation
data
for
the
continental
United
States
and
Puerto
Rico.
Data
are
available
for
the
current
day,
or
archived
by
month,
year,
or
day,
and
are
displayed
on
a
United
States
map,
individual
state
maps,
or
a
map
Of
Puerto
Rico.
Downloads
are
available
in
two
formats
(Shapefile
or
netCDF)
and
can
be
obtained
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