EARTH 2008 Resources
Lesson Plan Development
- National Science Standards—Content Standards
- AAAS Benchmarks—Project 206
- Ocean Literacy Essential Principles
General Oceanographic Info
- CTD (Conductivity/Temperature/Depth)— http://www.whoi.edu/instruments/viewInstrument.do?id=1003
- Niskin Bottles—http://www.coml.org/edu/tech/collect/niskin.htm
- Redfield Ratio—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redfield_ratio
- WHOI Podcasts—http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12515
Other Lesson Plan Links
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Oregon State Universite SMILE Program—http://smile.oregonstate.edu/
- SMILE High School Teacher Workshop Activities—http://cioss.coas.oregonstate.edu/CIOSS/teacher_activities.html
- BRIDGE Data Series lesson plans
- Rutgers COOL Classroom teacher page
Ocean Drilling
- International Ocean Drilling Program—www.iodp.org
- IODP Visual Resources Library
- IODP Education/Teaching materials
- IODP Video Expedition
- MARUM scientists Ursula Röhl and Alex Wülbers are investigating what the ocean floor has to tell us about the climate in the past. The geologists are part of the international IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program) project. In this report they talk about an especially challenging expedition; how with a drilling ship they navigated the Arctic ice to the Lomonosov Ridge, an underwater shelf that extends through the northern polar region.
- MBARI coring system—http://www.mbari.org/canyon/coresystem.htm
- Video from “Pele meets the sea”— http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/space/hawaii/vfts/pele/
- JOIDES Resolution—The ‘Hole’ story about ocean cores
Astrobiology
- NASA Astrobiology—http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/
- Micro*scope – online encyclopedia of life for microbes—http://starcentral.mbl.edu/microscope/portal.php
- Astrobiology in secondary classrooms—http://www.astroclassroom.org/New-Pages/Home.html
- Microbes at NASA—http://microbes.arc.nasa.gov/
- Microbe webquest—http://microbes.arc.nasa.gov/educators/webquest.html
Environmental Sample Processor
- Gene detection techniques—http://www.dnalc.org/ddnalc/resources/pcr.html
- Ecogenomics (NEPTUNE)—http://www.neptune.washington.edu/research/index.jsp?keywords=ECOGNM&title=Ecogenomics
- Oceans and human health—http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/ohhi/
- Greenomes – lab and internet exercises—http://www.greenomes.org/
- The Cartoon Guide to Genetics—http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/Biotech/cartoon.html
Harmful Algal Blooms
- Bigelow’s algal blooms page: neat interactive and also focuses on non-harmful algal blooms—http://www.bigelow.org/hab/
- WHOI’s introduction—http://www.whoi.edu/redtide/
- HABs in Texas; general intro with frequent updates—http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/landwater/water/environconcerns/hab/
- NOAA’s HAB site—http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/topics/coasts/hab/welcome.html
Dead Zones
- Primer on Giovanni—http://www.mbari.org/earth/2007/ooei/Aug_1/Giovanni_education_JG.pdf
- NOAA’s ocean service education—http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/welcome.html
- NOAA’s ocean service data explorer—http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/dataexplorer/welcome.html
- PISCO hypoxia overview—http://www.piscoweb.org/policy-and-outreach-hypoxia
- PISCO data—http://www.piscoweb.org/data (have to register)
- NOAA data sets; mostly just an overview—http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/datasets/welcome.html
- World Ocean Database—http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/SELECT/dbsearch/dbsearch.html
- NOAA Ocean Exploration—http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/
- MBARI Mooring data sets—http://www.mbari.org/oasis/index.html
- Hypoxia/upwelling activity—http://www.mbari.org/earth/2007/ooei/Aug_2/Presentations/VA_Eutroph_Lesson.doc
Microbiology
- Phytopia (Bigelow Labs)—http://www.bigelow.org/phytopia/
- Whyville—Whyville is a virtual world where boys and girls from all over the real world come to chat, play, learn, and have fun together
Satellite Oceanography
- NOAA CoastWatch West Coast Regional Node Browser
- NASA Ocean Color data browser
- CCAR Near Real-Time Altimetry Data Homepage
- AVISO Live Access Server
- JPL WINDS: Measuring Ocean Winds from Space
- OSU Real-time Satellite Images
- ORSOO (Oregon State) Data Online
Materials
- Live Daphnia culture at Hometrainingtools.com
- Plastic fish models at Tapirback.com
- Sea Soup books on Amazon.com
- Giant Microbes—stuffed models of your favorite microbes!