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Operation DeepScope

Link: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04deepscope/background/edu/edu.html

Bring the excitement of current ocean science discoveries to your students using this new Ocean Exploration curriculum Learning Ocean Science through Ocean Exploration: A Curriculum for Grades 6-12 From bioluminescent corals to deep-vent worms, from tropical underwater volcanoes to the Arctic Ocean floor, we know less about the landscape of our ocean than we do about the moon's. Bring the excitement of current ocean science discoveries to your students using this Ocean Exploration curriculum and a CD-ROM of the Ocean Explorer Web site from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Learning Ocean Science through Ocean Exploration is a newly-developed curriculum for teachers of Grades 6-12 that takes lesson plans that were developed for NOAA Voyages of Discovery and the Ocean Explorer Web Site and presents them in a comprehensive scope and sequence through subject area categories that cut across individual expeditions. Each lesson focuses on an inquiry-based approach to teaching and learning and is correlated to the National Science Education Standards. The curriculum themes are arranged in an order that progresses from physical science through earth science to biological and environmental science, as ocean sciences include all of these areas. Curriculum themes are based on 1) the geologic formations that cut across expeditions (seamounts, ridges and banks, canyons and shelves, and mid-ocean spreading ridges), 2) using models to understand structures and functions, and 3) using scientific data in the classroom to model scientific work and thinking. What is unique in this approach is the combination of the Ocean Explorer Web Site with each lesson presented here. Through this approach, teachers and students have a direct connection to the scientists whose work they are modeling in the classroom and a direct connection to the exciting new discoveries through NOAA ocean exploration.

• Cataloged: 2005-11-20
• Publisher: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

This resource is cataloged under:

• Beneficiary: Individual: Curriculum Supervisors
• Beneficiary: Individual: Librarians
• Beneficiary: Individual: Teacher Educators
• Beneficiary: Individual: Teachers
• Beneficiary: Individual: Teachers: Elementary School Teachers
• Beneficiary: Individual: Teachers: High School Teachers
• Beneficiary: Individual: Teachers: Middle School Teachers
• Beneficiary: Individual: Technology Coordinators
• Educational Type: Curriculum
• Educational Type: Curriculum support
• Educational Type: Educator's guide
• Educational Type: Environment
• Educational Type: Lesson plan
• Educational Type: Project
• Educational Type: Research study
• Educational Type: Study guide
• Grade level: Elementary
• Grade level: High school
• Grade level: Middle school
• Language: English
• Learning Type: Exercise
• Network/channel: Technology Applications for Learning: facilitate collaboration or resource sharing
• Network/channel: Technology Applications for Learning: develop or access curricular content
• Network/channel: Technology Applications for Learning: design or deliver instruction
• Network/channel: Technology Applications for Learning: plan, design or deliver professional development
• Resource Type: Collection

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