|
|
|
|
|
|
Quick Lesson Links |
Lesson Plan Links
|
 |
This lesson serves as an introduction to classification, using familiar objects
to help students understand what attributes are used to classify things. |
 |
This lesson uses plants and/or animals that students
are already familiar with to assist them in making connections between
physical characteristics and categorization. |
 |
This activity encourages students to take what they have learned about the principles
of classification and apply it to deep-sea animals that they may have
never seen before. Deep-sea images are included. |
 |
This lesson is intended to introduce students to selection processes that govern convergent evolution. Students will focus on analogous physical and behavioral characteristics of organisms that are found in the deep ocean and how these characteristics are adaptive to this environment. |
 |
This four-part activity will guide students to explore, investigate, and analyze our mysterious ocean floors. Students will work collaboratively to investigate ocean observing systems around the world to gain understanding of the Earth’s oceans and how scientists are studying these ecosystems. |
 |
This page contains links and information to help students study and
understand tsunami using examples from the recent earthquake in Japan and
the tsunami event it generated. |
 |
This activity allows students, working individually or in small groups, to retrieve information from pre-assigned web sites, retrieve real-time data to compare nitrate and phosphate concentrations at two open ocean monitoring sites, and construct an Excel graph using data from two different sites. |
 |
This activity
will help familiarize student with methods scientists use to study the ocean
floor, and will encourage them to pose and investigate their own questions about the ocean. |
 |
This activity encourages students to apply their knowledge of natural selection, ocean life, and ocean zones to observe and analyze the unique adaptations needed by organisms that exist in the deep ocean. |
 |
Animals and plants have a great variety of body plans and internal structures that contribute to their being able to make or find food and reproduce. In this activity, students will use technology to explore how animals in the deep sea are adapted to living in that environment. |
 |
This activity helps familiarize students with the technology and methods scientists use to study the deep sea, and helps students make possible connections between organisms and their habitat. |
|
|
 |
This activity serves as an introduction to the open-ocean ecosystem, the animals that live there, why they are important and how they are studied by researchers. |
 |
This activity provides an opportunity for students to use satellite tagging data to answer questions related to open-ocean animals, their habitats and migratory behaviors. |
 |
In this activity, students will use various tracking techniques to become familiar with satellite tracking procedures, relevant questions, data sources and organization. |
 |
Over the course of this project students will be expected to collaborate and share collected data with a partnered school to create a final product that interprets possible connections between organisms and their environment based on the use of real-time satellite tracking data. |
|
The Biological Pump
This Web slide show will take students step-by-step through the processes that are involved the biological pump. |
|
|
| The Biological Pump Online Slideshow |
The SOFeX Expedition
Helps students understand the rationale, questions, research, technology and people involved in the Southern Ocean Iron Experiment (SOFeX) Cruise in 2002. |
|
|
Graphing Iron Data
Helps students understand how scientists assess the impacts
of iron on ecosystem processes. |
|
|
|
Career Exploration
Familiarizes students with various careers in marine science and technology, and helps students find out what responsibilities, interests, aptitudes, schooling and experience are necessary to follow a particular career path. |
|
|
Back to top
Last updated: Aug. 05, 2011
|
|
|
