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- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students observe how salt concentration increases in water and how the salt remains after the water evaporates. After a lecture/demo, students perform an experiment that lasts over a period of 3 to 4 days. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 12th
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Students sample goodies from an unseen ocean floor and try to accurately describe their composition. This simulation helps students explain the limitations of sampling and the problem of obtaining representative samples of sea floor sediments. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 8th
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Students become familiar with oceanography terms by writing an oceanography horror story. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students research the five major sub disciplines of oceanography. They, in groups, list questions that each type of oceanographer would pose for a research project, then describe three research projects, and the type of oceanographer involved. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore important discoveries that oceanographers have made and some areas that they are still investigating. They conclude by making posters explaining how oceanography is used and why it's important. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students investigate how the crew of HMS Challenger collected data, how the data changed some theories of that time and how the data laid the foundation for modern oceanography. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students investigate the geological characteristics of the ocean environment and create a labeled drawing of the ocean floor's geography. Students view videos and conduct Internet research about the ocean's floor and then create their labeled sketch of the ocean floor. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students are asked to explain the sequence of rock and sediment types and to devise an experiment to test this hypothesis. It is intended for students with some prior knowledge of oceanography, sedimentary geology, and plate tectonics and requires them to synthesize all of this knowledge to answer the question. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students take this course as an introduction to the aspects of marine geology and oceanography that affect the environment and marine resources. Topics include estuarine oceanography and sediments, eutrophication of coastal waters, primary productivity, waves and tides, sea level history, glacial geology of coastal Maine, and an introduction to plate tectonics. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students explore what they know about Monterey Bay in the special topics course and share their information with K-12 grade children at local schools by participating in the Virtual Canyon Project. Students in this service learning class team up with students in another service learning class ("Tech Tutors") and work with children to create a fun and informative web-pages that become part of the Virtual Canyon web site. Full Review »
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