A hands-on card game lesson introducing students to real oceanographic instruments and how scientists collect and interpret ocean data like temperature, salinity, and pH. Builds critical thinking about ocean technology's role in science.

Students look at maps and make predictions for a mystery event. They then compare and contrast data from the event to the current date.

Students will have personal experience of increasing pressure, then use MBARI’s Deep Sea Guide to find animals, and put them on a vertical crosscut of the bay.