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Resources April 2010

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Database

NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science has recently launched a tool linking various bibliographic resources to their corresponding geographic area.  The web-based tool links standard bibliographic and relevant assessment information within a spatial framework to corresponding fish habitats.  This approach is also unique in that it provides summaries of habitat condition, indicators of threats to habitats, and recommendations on conservation efforts for the selected area.

http://www8.nos.noaa.gov/bhv/spatbibindex.html

California ScienCenter Fun Lab

The California Science Center offers the Fun Lab website for kids, with games, videos, and hands-on activities.  Color Full Inks offers an easy-to-do chromatography experiment, Build a Bug lets students create their own edible bug, and Habitat Match helps animals find their way home.

http://www.californiasciencecenter.org/FunLab/FunLab.php

Celebrate World Oceans Day with Dr. Seuss

Partners in The Ocean Project network can take advantage of the opportunity to download the Dr. Seuss’ One Fish World Oceans Day materials for free.  Materials include a manual, games and activities, and more.

http://theoceanproject.org/wod/seuss/

Climate Change Stories for Children

The Professor Sneeze stories and educational materials were developed in the framework of a project of the International Polar Foundation.  Stories for 5-12 year olds explain ways to save energy; 8-12 year olds learn how energy is produced by wind, sun, and water.  The website also offers crafts, photos, and other materials.

http://www.contespedagogiques.be/pages/accueil_angl.html

Google Ocean Showcase

Google Ocean Showcase features multimedia tours of shipwrecks and underwater mountains, surf and dive spots, and more.  The tours incorporate more than 1,000 images and video from a variety of sites and scientific organizations, and include underwater topographical maps, narration, and photos.

http://earth.google.com/ocean/showcase/

NASA Data Lesson Plans

Check out the new additions to the MY NASA DATA lesson collection, including lessons on Correlation of Variables by Graphing, Ocean Impacts of an El Nino Event, Phytoplankton in the Gulf of Maine, and more.  MY NASA DATA is a project to enable K-12 teachers and students, as well as citizen scientists, to explore the large volumes of data that NASA collects about the Earth from space.  Students use scientific inquiry and math skills as they access and display microsets of the Earth System.

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/lessons.html

NOAA Social Media

Social media provides a platform from which content transforms into community.  NOAA is using social media tools to share information and greatly increase the potential for better understanding for all about our oceans, coasts, climate, and weather sciences.

Topics include whale disentanglements, sea turtle rescues, underwater volcanoes, oil spills, marine debris, corals, dam removals, fisheries management, weather and climate, and much more.  Media used includes Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Podcasts, and RSS Feeds.  Check these out and keep up with the latest news from the oceans.

http://www.noaa.gov/socialmedia/

Ocean Cores

This University of Arizona course website features an outline to interpreting ocean cores as they relate to past environmental conditions such as sedimentation rates and climate.   The outline includes figures and information about sedimentation, the history of interpreting ocean cores, how proxies in ocean cores reveal past climate, and use of oxygen isotopes to infer past climate.  Key terms are hyperlinked to related pages and further information, and an extensive reference list is posted.

http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/geos462/06ocencore.html

State of the Coast

NOAA’s State of the Coast website is a source for quick facts and more detailed statistics offered through 14 interactive indicator visualizations, presented across four themes: Communities, Economy, Ecology, and Climate.  Collectively, this information highlights connections among a healthy coastal ecosystem, a robust U.S. economy, a safe population, and a sustainable quality of life for coastal residents.  Visitors can investigate changes in coastal population from 1970 to 2040; explore the impact coastal areas have on the U.S. economy; survey the overall health of the U.S. coast; and explore the vulnerability of our coasts to long-term sea level rise. http://stateofthecoast.noaa.gov/

Talking Fire without Getting Burned

The National Interagency Fire Center has posted the recording of Talking Fire without Getting Burned, the webinar presented in February 2010.

http://www.nifc.gov/fire_info/PIO_bb/webinar.html

Warming World

NASA’s Warming World website hosts a series of articles, data visualizations, space-based imagery, and interactives that explore the recent winter weather that gripped the United States, Europe and Asia, and how El Nino and other longer-term ocean-atmosphere phenomena may affect global temperatures this year and in the future.

http://climate.nasa.gov/warmingworld/

Water Quality and Dissolved Oxygen

This website from Science Junction features general information and three lesson plans about dissolved oxygen, geared toward middle and high school students.   Lessons cover topics such as what dissolved oxygen is, why it is important, and more, including an activity in which students are instructed to design an experiment to test effects of changes in dissolved oxygen concentration.

http://www.ncsu.edu/sciencejunction/depot/experiments/water/lessons/do/