Junior marine biologists access the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas' data on Atlantic Bluefin Tuna catches. As they analyze the data, they answer three questions. Background information and links to...

Students, after discussing oil pollution, generate solutions to an oil spill.

Students imagine they are archaeologists who are looking for treasure under the sand or sea. They work in teams to create the story and site of a shipwreck in a tub or aquarium filled with sand and water.

Students explore water properties by conducting a class experiment. For this buoyancy lesson, students make predictions as to whether or not specific objects will sink or float in water. Students conduct the experiment and record their...

Learners examine and demonstrate the extent of geologic time compared to recent time. They develop a demonstration of geologic time using an unrolled roll of toilet paper, with each sheet of toilet paper representing 20 million years.

Get your scholars working at "light speed" with this worksheet on how different wave frequencies have been discovered and used. The assignment has 20 short-answer questions, set up in a table. Consider re-doing the table or allowing...

In this online interactive grammar skills activity, students respond to 10 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of prepositions.

Fourth graders complete a variety of experiments to meet science goals.  In this life sciences lesson, 4th graders make yogurt, discover the attraction of opposite charges in electricity, learn the effects of glaciers, and explore...

In this ESL dolphins worksheet, students read an article about dolphins, then complete a set of 10 multiple choice questions; answer may be checked on-line.

As students examine maps of Utah, 4th graders search for clues about what prehistoric life was like in Utah.

Students describe typical marine food webs, and explain why food is generally scarce in the deep-ocean environment. They discuss reasons that seamounts may support a higher density of biological organisms than would appear to be possible.

Students create posters that show how a shark is a major predator in kelp forests and coral reefs after studying the food webs for these ecosystems. They determine that fish are important animals in the ocean's web of life.

Students explore the physical location of deep water habitats along the Hudson Shelf Valley and in Hudson Canyon. They study the basic characteristics of the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones with regard to depth, temperature, pres

Students analyze the effects of oil spills on our environment and develop action plans to protect animals and habitats.

Students review the patterns they discovered from a previous activity.  In this investigative lesson students plot data as a class and color a map. 

Learners use the internet to discover information about dolphins. They examine their behavior, appearance and distribution of dolphins.

Students explore the impact of global warming. In this oceanography instructional activity, students investigate global climate change and write reaction papers about their research findings.

Students conduct research on estuaries. They design and construct an estuary, describe the physical characteristics of an estuary, and create a diagram illustrating an estuarine food web.

Young scholars evaluate the feasibility of wave energy as an alternative source of energy.  In this alternative energy source instructional activity students are introduced to renewable and nonrenewable energy and study energy...

Pupils examine natural and man-made threats to sea turtles. They create sea turtle mobiles while studying the range, environment, predators of and threats to sea turtles.

Students explain the process of chemosynthesis and its relevance to biological communities. In this investigative instructional activity students discuss chemosynthetic communities, then in groups they are assigned a species and are to...

Young scholars investigate jungles and the people who depend upon them.  In this sustainability lesson, students research wild life conservation and discover the importance of a jungle to Amazonian people.  Young scholars...

In this biomes worksheet, students review the characteristics of aquatic biomes and terrestrial biomes. This worksheet has 12 fill in the blank, 6 multiple choice, and 4 short answer questions.

Students describe how plate tectonics contribute to the development of volcanoes. For this earth science lesson, students examine the map of Hawaii and explore the physical and biological environment there. They write a story about an...