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Jules Verne Voyager: Gem Global Strain Rate Map

For Students 9th - 10th
GEM GSRM uses a texture underlay grid showing the 2nd invariant of lithospheric strain rate, with an image overlay of coastal outlines in white - which forces the texture underlay to have a black background in regions of zero strain...
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NASA

Nasa: Visible Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
From NASA, "Images, visualizations, and animations," that students will find extremely interesting and helpful in their study of the earth. Includes pictures of environmental impacts, erosion, coastal processes, atmosphere, and lots more.
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Nature Canada

Nature Canada: Common Murre

For Students 9th - 10th
A fact sheet about the common murre, a Canadian bird that lives in coastal areas.
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Nature Canada

Nature Canada: Red Necked Phalarope

For Students 9th - 10th
The red-necked phalarope is a shorebird that spends summers in the Arctic and northern Canada, and winters mainly south of the equator. They are found mostly in coastal waters but can also be seen in some inland waters. Facts about the...
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The Coral Reef Alliance: Threats to Coral Reefs

For Students 9th - 10th
Water pollution, sedimentation, coastal development, destructive fishing practices, are but a few of the threats to coral reefs addressed on this thorough site.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Trickles Down?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Permeability is the degree to which water or other liquids are able to flow through a material. Different substances such as soil, gravel, sand, and asphalt have varying levels of permeability. In this activity, students will explore...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What to Wear? What to Drink? Weather Patterns and Climatic R

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
How does our climate affect us? How do we decide what to wear each day? What factors determine if our clothing choices are comfortable? What is the source of our water? Learners explore characteristics that define climatic regions. They...
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Habitat Network Focal City: Boston, Ma.

For Students 9th - 10th
See how this coastal city's habitat has developed and changed throughout its history.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Chile Earthquake: Christmas Day Quake Forces Evacuations

For Students 9th - 10th
Southern Chile is rattled by a magnitude-7.6 earthquake, forcing thousands of people to evacuate coastal areas.
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Nanoos: What's a Water Column Profile? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan helps students discover the relationship between temperature, salinity, and density in coastal marine waters. Students access and retrieve water column profile data from the NANOOS and/or the WA Department of Ecology's...
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Care: Ecuador Virtual Field Trip

For Students 9th - 10th
Take an eco-adventure to Ecuador's last remaining coastal rainforest. Journey by canoe down narrow river passages, trek under a canopy of trees and visit remote indigenous communities that work with CARE.
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Lin and Don Donn

Lin and Don Donn: Pacific Northwest Indians

For Students 3rd - 8th
Site provides information and lesson plans regarding the Pacific Coastal Northwest Indians. Use this site to find information about daily life, food, and more.
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Itopf: Effects of Marine Oil Spills

For Students 9th - 10th
Site highlights the serious economic impact on coastal activities and marine life.
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Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum: China Design Now

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource, students explore China's coastal cities and experience the country's creative landscape. The cities examined are Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing. The resource consists of pictures, information about the exhibition,...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Will the Ocean Ever Run Out of Fish?

For Students 9th - 10th
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet explain overfishing and its effects on ecosystems, food security, jobs, economies, and coastal cultures.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Nasca, an Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
Nasca culture flourished on the coastal plain of southern Peru between 200 B.C.E. and 600 C.E. Read and view pictures about their art, specifically geoglyphs and pottery, in this essay.
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Thinkport Education

Made Clear: How Do Humans Feel the Impact of Sea Level Rise?

For Students 9th - 10th
Losing land through increased erosion is the most obvious problem from sea-level rise, but it's not the only one. Learn some ways coastal communities will feel the effects of sea-level rise.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Palestinians

For Students 9th - 10th
Palestinians inhabit an area east of the Mediterranean Sea and south of Lebanon. The Jordan River, Lakes Huleh and Tiberias, and the Dead Sea separate Palestine from Jordan. Christians refer to Palestine as "the Holy Land." Today...
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National Earth Science Teachers Association

Windows to the Universe: Changing Planet: Sea Levels Rising

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students review topographic maps and use that knowledge to explore the impact sea level rise will have on coastal communities.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Jews of the Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
Prior to 1948, Jewish communties were found discontinuously in an area stretching from southwest Asia across North Africa, from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the north to Yemen in the south, and from Afghanistan in the east to Morocco in...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Afar

For Students 9th - 10th
The Afar occupy an area of Djibouti and northeastern Ethiopia, sometimes called the Afar Triangle. There is a long history of hostility between the Afar and the surrounding groups; the Afar are often considered fierce and warlike. The...
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Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium

Pittsburgh Zoo: California Sea Lion

For Students 9th - 10th
California sea lions are warm-blooded coastal dwelling mammals that glide easily through the water with their torpedo-shaped bodies and are propelled by their "winged feet." Use this resource to discover many other unique facts.
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Nature Conservancy

Nature Conservancy: Planet Earth: Oceans and Coasts

For Students 9th - 10th
Compilation of the Nature Conservancy's content about the ecology of oceans and coasts. Emphasis is on the biodiversity of these habitats and the human impact on the animal and plant life that live in our oceans and on our coasts.
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Teaching With Historic Places: Plantation Agriculture

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource lets you explore the workings of southern plantations.

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