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Other Educational Websites

Here are a few of the many educational sites currently on the web. This site will be updated regularly, so bookmark this page and come back and visit. If you have any favorite sites, please let me know.

Monterey Bay Aquarium

National Ocean Service - The National Marine Sanctuaries.

Elkhorn Slough Foundation/National Estuarine Research Reserve

Resources (alphabetical)

  • Bad Science - This site provides links to some of the more common misconceptions that are currently taught and incorporated into textbooks. Very useful and additional links are welcome.
  • BBC - Education - Updated daily, this site provides links to an extremely wide variety of sites including news, activities, and some bilingual curricula.
  • Beyond Discovery - This site provides links for the Beyond Discovery series. This series is produced by the National Academy of Sciences and tells stories of how basic scientific research can lead to human benefits that could not have been anticipated.
  • The Bridge - This site provides links to online resources for marine science educators. A must visit!
  • Enature.com  - More than 4,000 species of North American animals and plants are covered in text and photographs on the site, which features a powerful search engine that enables users to easily identify species. The subjects covered in more than 10,000 web pages include birds, butterflies, mammals, fishes, reptiles, amphibians, insects, seashells, wildflowers, trees, and more, plus in-depth coverage of the natural habitats of the U.S. and Canada.  This content is derived from the best-selling Audubon Field Guide books created by Chanticleer Press and published by Knopf/Random House.
  • Environmental Literacy - This site is generated by the non-profit Environmental Literacy Council and provides links to a large number of environmental resources on the Internet.
  • Last word - An entertaining blog with some answers to those difficult questions.
  • Marine Advanced Technology Education Center - An online guide to marine science and technology.
  • Marine Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Workshop 2008 San Jose State University and Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
  • Math in our daily lives - Shows how we use numbers in our daily lives, includes interactive activities.
  • Math/Science Nucleus -  This is a non-profit educational and research organization that serves as a science resource center.
  • Metric - From the U. S. Metric Association, a web page that has many links and information about 'going metric'.
  • Moss Landing Marine Laboratories 2008 Lab and Field Explorations in Marine Science Teachers Institute
  • National Geographic Society - Explore their site, the front page changes every day! They have generated a number of interesting "virtual worlds" like the Fantastic Forest, Midway, and Outpost (to list only a few).
  • Northeast Sustainable Energy Association - Free activity packets
  • Scientific American Frontiers - Provides educator guides, Ask the Scientist Q&A, reviewed resources, related Scientific American articles, show transcripts, interactive activities, and more for each show.
  • Schools of California Online Resources for Educators Project (SCORE) - Lessons and links for mathematics, science, history/social science, and language arts.
  • Sea Urchin Embryology - The drama of fertilization and development is explored by laboratory modules using sea urchin eggs and a web site developed by teachers and Stanford University researchers.
  • Smithsonian Ocean Portal - a link from the Smithsonian Institution to all things ocean related.
  • The Ocean Planet - This web site has a large number of educational materials either developed specifically for the Ocean Planet Exhibition, or for other purposes but all are good complements to the materials presented in this Smithsonian exhibit.
  • Tides - A link to the University of South Carolina web page that provides Moss Landing tidal information. And another link from Luke Coletti here at MBARI.
  • WestEd Eisenhower Regional Consortium - This site has two new resources that should prove useful and attractive to science and mathematics educators. One is a lesson plan search that selectively searches over 100 sites that they believe have valuable lesson plans. The other is a four-state (CA, AZ, NV, UT) regional calendar for science, math and environmental education.
  • wNET School - WNET public tv's site for K-12 teachers.

Virtual Expeditions

  • ROV VENTANA - Several years ago, the Futures Channel produced a five part feature on Jim McFarlane and the ROV Ventana. You can now watch the Voyage of the Ventana online. 
  • Virtual experiments - Students may access current research data and live images for learning about scientific method. They may also correspond with a scientist and contribute scientific artwork.
  • Virtual field trips - A growing site providing virtual trips to places like salt marshes and volcanoes.
  • Virtual kelp forest -  A virtual field trip to the kelp exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Real Expeditions

  • Expedition: Galapagos Islands - A free distance learning event, presented by Scientific American Frontiers, featuring video-enhanced expedition journals, interactive experiments, Q&A with the expedition team, polls, contests, a teaching guide, related print and online resources, photographs, and background information on the islands' ecology, flora, and fauna.
  • Extreme 2000 - The first deep research dive to the hydrothermal vents in the new century. Join the scientists on this expedition that started on January 12th, 2000!
  • Sea Turtle Tracking - Welcome to the Sea Turtle Migration-Tracking Education Program, a project of the Caribbean Conservation Corp. and Sea Turtle Survival League.
  • Starship Millennium Voyage - A three year interactive journey around the world on board a 25 meter ship.
  • Sustainable Seas Expeditions - A five year exploration and education project focusing on the National Marine Sanctuaries.
  • The Jason Project - An ongoing series of expeditions to different locations, featuring student Argonauts.
  • Tuna Research and Conservation Center - A collaborative effort of the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Stanford University whose mission is to promote cooperative ventures that educate the public about the conservation and biology of tunas.
  • WhaleNet - An interactive education project sponsored by Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts with support from NSF. This site includes real data from tagged marine mammals.

Educational Technology

Last updated: Aug. 20, 2010