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Snailfish and Any Fin activity

STEM Learning Module:

Any Fin Is Possible

closeup of AR sandbox

Design Challenge:

Augmented Reality Bathymetry Sandbox

Contour maps

STEM Learning Module:

Bathymetry: Making Topographic Maps

mapping for edu resource

STEM Learning Module:

Building Underwater Features Using Sonar Mapping

Dolphins in Hawaii

STEM Learning Module:

Cetacean Connections

firework jellyfish

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Chemistry of Bioluminescence

Styrofoam cups compressed by ocean depth

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Compressed Styrofoam Cups Teaching Graphic

Deep Sea Coral at Osborn Bank, Channel Islands

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Coral Reefs in the Dark

Create Your Own Fossil Examples

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Create Your Own Marine Fossil

STEM Learning Module:

CTD Analysis

Picture of a man in the Nautilus control room viewing seafloor footage of ROV dive

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Cultivating Accessibility: Empowering Teachers to Support the Visually Impaired

Crab on the seafloor climbing over a trash bag

STEM Learning Module:

Deep Sea Debris

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Deep Sea Pressure Teaching Animation

Side by side bottles with floating beads show differences between fresh and salt water

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Density Bottles Demonstration

Diel Vertical Migration (Teaching Animation)

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Diel Vertical Migration (Teaching Animation)

STEM Learning Module:

Driftin' Away

Large orange coral

STEM Learning Module:

Ecosystem Monitoring Series

close up of hands removing an eDNA filter

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

eDNA & Coral ID Classroom Warm Up

Bamboo corals undersea

STEM Learning Module:

eDNA - There's Something in the Water

Environmental DNA (eDNA)

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Environmental DNA (Teaching Animation)

Shark Pulse

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Get Involved SharkPulse Citizen Science

STEM Learning Module:

Get To Know A Drifter

He Welo Ohana

STEM Learning Module:

He Welo ʻOhana

Hercules Looking At U-166

STEM Learning Module:

Hercules Illuminating The Dark

Shrunken Styrofoam Cups

Data-Driven Activity:

High Pressure in the Deep Ocean

Hot Spot Island Chain Formation (Teaching Animation)

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Hot Spot Island Chain Formation (Teaching Animation)

Island Hotspot

STEM Learning Module:

Hotspot Islands: Messages from Moving Plates

Placecard - How do you use the database to identify a sample?

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Identifying New Species Classroom Warm up

Labeled map of global ocean basins

Data-Driven Activity:

Investigating Ocean Volume

Preview of datasheet

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Learn to Log - Data Logging Activity

Science Communicaton Fellow Tori Hunt on a projector at the front of a classroom streaming in live to talk with students.

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Live Ship-to-Shore Interaction Guide

hydrothermal vent creatures

STEM Learning Module:

Living on a Chimney

Collage of six Hawaiian shark species

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Mālama Manō Shark Identification Guide

hydrate bubble seep

STEM Learning Module:

Model Behavior

hydrothermal vents endeavour

STEM Learning Module:

Modeling Hydrothermal Vents

No Ka Honua - ʻIke Moana

STEM Learning Module:

No Ka Honua

Side by side bottles with floating beads show differences between fresh and salt water

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Ocean Density Bottles Classroom Warm Up

Comparison graphic of surface and deepwater drifters

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Ocean Drifters Teaching Animation

Sunrise over the ocean

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Ocean Ecosystem Card Sorting Activity

Screenshot of the Exploration Course roadmap

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Ocean Exploration Course for Middle School

OLP

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Ocean Literacy Principle 1: One Global Ocean

Ocean Literacy Principle 2: The Ocean Shapes Earth

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Ocean Literacy Principle 2: The Ocean Shapes Earth

Ocean Literacy Principle 3: The Ocean Influences Weather and Climate

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Ocean Literacy Principle 3: The Ocean Influences Weather and Climate

Ocean Literacy Principle 4: The Ocean Makes Earth Habitable

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Ocean Literacy Principle 4: The Ocean Makes Earth Habitable

Ocean Literacy Principle 5: The Ocean Supports Earth’s Diversity

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Ocean Literacy Principle 5: The Ocean Supports Earth’s Diversity

Ocean Literacy Principle 6: Humans and Oceans Are Interconnected

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Ocean Literacy Principle 6: Humans and Oceans Are Interconnected

Ocean Literacy Principle 7: The Ocean Is Largely Unexplored

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Ocean Literacy Principle 7: The Ocean Is Largely Unexplored

Marshmallow and toothpick models of silicate rock structure

STEM Learning Module:

Ocean Silicate Geology

Student work example for Ocean Zone lesson

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Ocean Zone Home

Ocean Zones (Teaching Animation)

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Ocean Zones (Teaching Animation)

Octopus Eggs In Monterey Bay NMS

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Oviparous Ocean Animals (Babies in Eggs)

Purple octocoral with brittlestars

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Oxygen Minimum Zone Classroom Warm Up

golf ball floating partway through a water column

STEM Learning Module:

Pressure & Density Stations

smaller poster example

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Samoan Hotspot Poster

New and old anodes side by side

STEM Learning Module:

Save Yourself - Sacrificial Anodes

Water column survey screen with bubble plumes visible

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Seafloor Mapping Classroom Warm Up

STEM Learning Module:

Seafloor Mapping Simulation

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Seafloor Mapping Teaching Animation

Seamount Formation (Teaching Animation)

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Seamount Formation (Teaching Animation)

Design Challenge:

Seas of Green - Designing a Plankton

Sequencing DNA image

STEM Learning Module:

Sequencing DNA In The Classroom

Bathymetric map of a seamount overlayed with the cover of the Ocean Speaks children's book

Games & Creativity:

Storytime At Sea: Ocean Speaks

Secrets of the Sea Storytime at Sea

Games & Creativity:

Storytime At Sea: Secrets Of The Sea

STEM Learning Module:

Tectonic Plates

Graphic showing tectonic spreading center

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Tectonic Plates Teaching Animation

Purple sea cucumber

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Unique Creatures Classroom Warm Up Activity

Vailulu'u seamount poster

Teaching Animation or Graphic:

Vailuluʻu Seamount Poster

Whale skeleton 3D model

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

Whale Fall 3D Model

What's Down Below Activity Final Product

Activity or Mini-Lesson:

What's Down Below?

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