This learning module is a cooperative effort between NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NOAA’s National Ocean Service. It informs about sea level rise, its causes, and impacts; and challenges students to think about what they can do in response.
Explore the fascinating natural history of Earth’s poles in NOVA's Polar Lab. Students use claims, evidence, and reasoning in a discussion of what the evidence about the poles from Earth’s past can tell us about its future.
Students explore how unequal heating of Earth’s surface by the Sun drives global ocean circulation patterns in this media-rich lesson plan from GBH.
In this demonstration, students will build their own hydrothermal vent using two different temperatures of water and items found around classrooms.
This lesson sequence introduces students to the concept of ecosystem monitoring, underwater mountain — seamounts —ecosystems, and the equipment E/V Nautilus uses to aid international scientists in tracking changes in environments.
A video series exploring the story of a humpback whale whose carcass washed up on a British Columbia beach. Follow researchers as they unravel the mysteries of the whale's life and death as they prepare its bones for display. Warning: These videos show graphic footage of a whale necropsy.
Explore the history of the abalone fishery in B.C. with student presentations and an interactive game (with marshmallows!). English and French.
Secondary activity and discussion using a measurement tool that allows students to calculate and consider the effects of their personal resource use (English & French).
Lesson plan (grade 4-11) about marine nearshores and some of their inhabitants (eelgrass and forage fish); English & French.
Grades 4 -11; class discussions, research, and activities to learn about deep sea biodiversity, Canada's Endeavour Hydrothermal vent site and it’s designation as a Marine Protected Area (English & French).
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