Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence

In this activity, learners construct a coastal landmass from sand and add features such as tidal creeks and barrier islands.

This activity provides a hands-on experience with a scale model, a relatively high viscosity fluid, and feeding behaviors.

In this activity, learners role-play the part of lake inhabitants and the aquatic exotics who displace the native species.

In this two-part lesson, learners discover how large bodies of water can serve as a heat source or sink at different times and how proximity to water moderates climate along the coast.

In this two-part activity, learners investigate buoyancy, density and surface area as well as biodiversity and the relationship between the structure and function of organisms.

In this activity, learners model, on a human-sized board game, how changes in water temperature may affect fish distributions and, ultimately, fisheries.

In this activity, learners explore density, convection, stratification, and, by inference, the melting of icebergs. Learners make hypotheses, test their hypotheses, and explain their observations.

In this activity, learners will create a diagram of the ocean zones and determine what organisms live in each zone.

In this game, learners match descriptions of marine debris (shoes, batteries, paper towels, etc.) to images of these items.

In this activity, learners explore the concept of density-driven currents (thermohaline circulation) and how these currents are affected by climate change.