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- “Audience” filters by grade level, including postsecondary education, and also has a filter option for adult learners.
- “Subject” filters by the general subject area, such as Arts, Earth science, Math, and more.
- “Resource Type” filters allow you to look for resources ranging from activities, lessons, and units to videos or background information.
- “Topic” filters are more specific than subject. They include filters such as climate, freshwater, and weather and atmosphere.
- “NGSS DCI” filters by Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Ideas. Only activities, lessons, and units (and no other resource types) have NGSS DCI associated with them. Not all activities, lessons, and units have this alignment.
- “Special categories” offers additional filters for specific types of resources and topics, such as printables, resources available in other languages, and safety/preparedness.
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Understanding instructional strategies.
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- Activities, lessons, and units (68)
- Arts and crafts (2)
- Background information (51)
- Career profile (30)
- Citizen science project (7)
- Collection (79)
- Coloring/activity book (7)
- Data product (31)
- Job seeker resource (6)
- Multimedia (100)
- NOAA Education resource collection (3)
- Poster/brochure (7)
- Related story (28)
- Climate (46)
- Freshwater (31)
- Marine life
(73)
- Adaptations (2)
- Aquatic food webs (13)
- Coral reef ecosystems (23)
- Conservation (3)
- Ecosystems (32)
- Entanglement (9)
- Fish (15)
- Fisheries and seafood (13)
- Invasive marine species (4)
- Invertebrates (14)
- Life in an estuary (10)
- Marine mammals (33)
- Plankton (3)
- Salmon (5)
- Sea turtles (9)
- Seabirds (8)
- Seaweed, algae, and aquatic plants (4)
- Sharks, rays, and skates (6)
- NOAA careers (16)
- Ocean and coasts
(119)
- Earth processes (8)
- Harmful algal blooms (6)
- Maritime archaeology and history (9)
- Ocean acidification (15)
- Ocean chemistry (7)
- Ocean currents (27)
- Ocean exploration (22)
- Ocean floor features (30)
- Ocean pollution and marine debris (35)
- Ocean sounds (4)
- Oil spills (13)
- Sea level rise (11)
- Tides (11)
- Tsunamis (9)
- Space (33)
- Technology and engineering (170)
- Weather and atmosphere (79)
- ESS1: Earth’s Place in the Universe (1)
- ESS2: Earth’s Systems (14)
- ESS3: Earth and Human Activity (21)
- ETS1: Engineering Design (21)
- LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes (9)
- LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics (22)
- LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity (11)
- PS1: Matter and Its Interactions (9)
- PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions (1)
- PS3: Energy (5)
- PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer (4)
- Adopt a Drifter Program (1)
- At Home with Galveston Bay (1)
- B-WET grantee (4)
- CIRES/NOAA Science@Home webinar (1)
- CLEAN climate and energy education resource collection (1)
- Data in the Classroom (3)
- Deep Ocean Education Project Website (1)
- Deep-sea dialogues (2)
- Do you NOAA? (1)
- Earth Genius Program (1)
- ELP grantee (2)
- Estuary Education website (2)
- Explore remote sensing (1)
- Faces of the National Weather Service (1)
- Finding fish hotspots and mapping coral reefs (1)
- GOES-R infographics (1)
- GOES-R printable materials (1)
- GOES-R satellite video collection (2)
- GPS educational resources (1)
- Great Lakes photo gallery (1)
- Hurricane Hunters video collection (1)
- JetStream: An online school for weather (1)
- Making Waves podcast (1)
- Marine Careers: A Sea Grant guide to ocean opportunities (1)
- Marine Debris STEAMSS (4)
- Maritime Archaeology (1)
- Microworlds (1)
- MOSAiC: Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate virtual reality tours (1)
- National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) (1)
- National Geodetic Survey (3)
- National Geodetic Survey geodesy and mapping videos (1)
- National Marine Sanctuaries Webinar Series: Archived webinars (2)
- National Severe Storms Laboratory learning resources (1)
- NOAA Boulder Labs: Meet our team (1)
- NOAA Boulder Virtual 8th Grade Science Days (1)
- NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps (1)
- NOAA Digital Coast (1)
- NOAA Fisheries YouTube (1)
- NOAA Live! 4 Kids (1)
- NOAA Marine Debris Program (4)
- NOAA Ocean Podcast (1)
- NOAA Office of Education student opportunities (1)
- NOAA Satellites infographics (1)
- NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer: Education materials collection (1)
- Ocean Exploration careers (2)
- Ocean Exploration educational materials (5)
- Ocean Exploration facts (2)
- Ocean facts (2)
- Ocean Today (7)
- Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay modules (1)
- Sanctuaries 360 virtual dives (3)
- Sanctuaries resource collection: Coral reef ecosystems (1)
- Sanctuaries resource collection: Ocean sound and impact of noise (3)
- Satellite meteorology learning modules (1)
- Science On a Sphere catalog (5)
- SciJinks (6)
- Sea Grant podcasts (1)
- Signals of Spring ACES (Animals in Curriculum-based Ecosystem Studies) (1)
- Space weather videos (1)
- Teaching Great Lakes science (1)
- The GLOBE Program (2)
- UCAR teaching boxes (1)
- Underwater robot education theme (1)
- Weather 101 (1)
- Women in science profiles (1)
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Data in the Classroom has structured, student-directed lesson plans that use historical and real-time NOAA data. The five modules address research questions and include stepped levels of engagement with complex inquiry investigations with real-time and past data.
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The Deep Ocean Education Project is a collaboration among NOAA Ocean Exploration, Ocean Exploration Trust, and Schmidt Ocean Institute featuring high-quality ocean exploration and science education materials from the three organizations. The Deep Ocean Education Project website – launched in 2021 – is built around themes that are easily searchable, address key ocean-related phenomena, and encourage and support three-dimensional approaches to teaching and learning for K-12 education. The objective is to provide a one-stop resource hub for public, educators, and students looking for deep-sea educational materials. The website also includes information on how to connect with research vessels, including a list of upcoming events and opportunities, and live feeds of expeditions.
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SOS Explorer® (SOSx) is a flat screen version of the widely popular Science On a Sphere® (SOS). The revolutionary software takes SOS datasets, usually only seen on a 6-foot sphere in large museum spaces, and makes them more accessible. The visualizations show information provided by satellites, ground observations and computer models.
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Learn what scientists have discovered in ten years of studying the endangered Southern Resident killer whales. See the science behind recovering this charismatic creature, from collecting their poop to tracking them using satellites.
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Monitor National Marine Sanctuary offers a variety of free resources for educators. Resources include social studies activities, as well as science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) activities, lesson plans, and guides. Each section below is filled with STEM activities, lesson plans, and games. Explore the Civil War and USS Monitor, World War I, World War II, Shipwrecks and STEM, Wrecks as Reefs, the Outer Banks Maritime Heritage Trail, and more.
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Shocking! Within this cluster of storms, a single lightning bolt captured by NOAA satellites was recently certified by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as the world’s longest flash on record. The horizontal distance of the bolt stretched 477 miles, from the central coast of Texas to southern Mississippi, when it flashed on April 29, 2020.
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This 30-minute historical documentary is about the lives and stories of ten women in the NOAA Corps service: how they came to the NOAA Corps, their motivations and challenges, and views on their service. The documentary serves to elevate public understanding and appreciation of the NOAA Corps, particularly women’s service in the Corps, and to inspire the next generation of women in scientific service. The NOAA Corps is one of seven federal uniformed services of the United States, and NOAA Corps officers serve on the sea, on land, and in the air to support NOAA’s environmental science and stewardship mission.
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The NOAA Coordinated Hurricane Atmosphere-Ocean Sampling (CHAOS) program's goals are to improve our understanding of the role of the ocean, waves, and air-sea interactions in the development and intensification of hurricanes in order to produce more accurate and reliable models and forecasts. Learn more about the early career scientists working on this program! Early career ocean professionals are defined as people who are current graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, or within 10 years since the completion of their highest graduate degree.
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Learn all about the incredible staff who work for NOAA Research! This page provides dozens of career profiles from many fields within NOAA.
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This resource collection from NOAA Education explores how NOAA collects climate data from the atmosphere, land, ocean, and space. Some say that climate is what you expect and weather is what you get. More formally, climate is the long-term average of temperature, precipitation, and other weather variables at a given location. Every 30 years, climate scientists calculate new averages. The normal high and low temperatures reported on your local weather forecast come from these 30-year averages. Although climate describes conditions in the atmosphere (hot/cold, wet/dry), these conditions are influenced by the ocean, land, sun, and atmospheric chemistry. NOAA monitors these factors to understand and predict changes to local or global climate.