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Making the most of the filterable categories.
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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.
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- “Topic” filters are more specific than subject. They include filters such as climate, freshwater, and weather and atmosphere.
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- “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.
Within special categories, there is an expandable filter called “instructional strategies.” This includes special filters that are applicable for some lessons, activities, and units, including things like “outdoor education” and “uses data.”
- Activities, lessons, and units (216)
- Arts and crafts (6)
- (-) Background information (239)
- Career profile (95)
- Citizen science project (12)
- Collection (199)
- Coloring/activity book (37)
- Contest (3)
- Data product (162)
- Job seeker resource (11)
- Multimedia (544)
- NOAA Education resource collection (25)
- Poster/brochure (29)
- Related story (182)
- Climate (50)
- Freshwater (27)
- Marine life
(64)
- Adaptations (2)
- Aquatic food webs (10)
- Coral reef ecosystems (10)
- Conservation (7)
- Ecosystems (17)
- Endangered species (1)
- Entanglement (3)
- Fish (16)
- Fisheries and seafood (17)
- Invasive marine species (2)
- Invertebrates (12)
- Life in an estuary (9)
- Marine mammals (23)
- Plankton (3)
- Salmon (3)
- Sea turtles (13)
- Seabirds (7)
- Seaweed, algae, and aquatic plants (4)
- Sharks, rays, and skates (6)
- NOAA careers (2)
- Ocean and coasts
(98)
- Earth processes (7)
- Harmful algal blooms (4)
- Maritime archaeology and history (7)
- Ocean acidification (10)
- Ocean chemistry (5)
- Ocean currents (19)
- Ocean exploration (12)
- Ocean floor features (16)
- Ocean pollution and marine debris (27)
- Ocean sounds (2)
- Oil spills (17)
- Rip currents (2)
- Sea level rise (2)
- Tides (10)
- Tsunamis (14)
- Space (18)
- Technology and engineering (54)
- Weather and atmosphere (80)
- ESS2: Earth’s Systems (5)
- ESS3: Earth and Human Activity (4)
- ETS1: Engineering Design (5)
- LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics (3)
- LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity (2)
- PS1: Matter and Its Interactions (3)
- PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions (1)
- PS3: Energy (3)
- PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer (2)
- B-WET grantee (2)
- Carbon educational tools (1)
- Climate.gov (1)
- Deep Ocean Education Project Website (1)
- Deep ocean fact sheets (1)
- Do you NOAA? (1)
- ELP grantee (1)
- ESRL Global Monitoring Laboratory (1)
- Estuary Education website (1)
- Explore remote sensing (1)
- Finding fish hotspots and mapping coral reefs (1)
- FishWatch sustainable seafood database (1)
- Fun facts about sea life (1)
- GPS educational resources (1)
- JetStream: An online school for weather (4)
- Maritime Archaeology (1)
- National Geodetic Survey (1)
- National Weather Service (1)
- NOAA Boulder scientists explain science (1)
- NOAA Fisheries: Find a species (1)
- NOAA Marine Debris Program (1)
- Ocean Acidification Communication Toolkit: Dungeness crab case study (1)
- Ocean Exploration educational materials (6)
- Ocean Exploration facts (2)
- Ocean facts (3)
- Octonauts Corner (1)
- Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory El Niño theme page (1)
- Salmon Heroes (1)
- Sanctuaries resource collection: Coral reef ecosystems (1)
- Sanctuaries resource collection: Whales (1)
- Satellite meteorology learning modules (2)
- SciJinks (10)
- Severe weather 101 (1)
- Solar physics and terrestrial effects curriculum guide (1)
- Storm surge videos and brochures (1)
- UCAR teaching boxes (1)
- Underwater robot education theme (1)
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Materials like consumer plastics, metals, rubber, paper, textiles, lost fishing gear, vessels, and other lost or discarded items can easily end up in the ocean, where it becomes marine debris. Marine debris threatens the ocean and its resources, the economy, and safe navigation. Animals like turtles, marine mammals, birds, and other creatures can die when they accidentally swallow or get tangled up in marine debris. These materials can also crush sensitive habitats like seagrass beds or coral reefs. All national marine sanctuaries face the challenges of marine debris and the harmful impacts that come along with managing this problem. This collection features resources related to the problem of marine debris, NOAA and sanctuary system programs, and the solution to pollution.
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Meteorologists at NOAA’s National Weather Service have always monitored the conditions of the atmosphere that impact the weather, but over time the equipment they use has changed. As technology advanced, our scientists began to use more efficient equipment to collect and use additional data. These technological advances enable our meteorologists to make better predictions faster than ever before.
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Learn all about the water vapor in our air!
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Learn more about the intelligent mammals that inhabit our ocean, the problems they face, and their importance in the marine ecosystem. Read to explore NOAA’s efforts to protect dolphin populations and how national marine sanctuaries benefit dolphins.
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Learn about one of the ocean’s top predators — sharks — and their critical role in maintaining the marine ecosystem. This collection features NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries resources for everyone to explore NOAA’s efforts to research and conserve shark populations, how sharks support the sanctuary system, and more.
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Sea turtles are a key part of marine ecosystems worldwide, but they face many threats today. Explore a collection of NOAA webinars, a virtual reality dive, lesson plans, videos, posters, web stories, and more to gain a deeper understanding of sea turtle species and NOAA's efforts within the sanctuary system to protect them and limit the threats they face.
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Welcome to a virtual tour of the National Weather Service Forecast Office and Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi!
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University of Southern California (USC) Sea Grant's Education Specialist, Maria Madrigal's book, STEAM Powered Series: Marine Biology offsite link, focuses on her specialty in marine science education and highlights her Hispanic heritage. The book follows Cora and her friend, Bonnie the butterfly, as they discover the different ways scientists study what is underwater. This book focuses on topics that are accessible and local to Los Angeles students and highlighted themes common to USC Sea Grant's work: Cora and Bonnie explore kelp forests, plankton and harmful algal blooms, grunion fish, and tidepool monitoring, while venturing out to free and accessible areas that children can enjoy, such as docks, the beach, and aquariums. The book is also available in Spanish offsite link.
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Explore this collections of lessons, activities, videos, coloring pages, and field guides from the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve on life in that estuary.
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Birds are a vital part of marine ecosystems and valuable indicators of ecosystem health. The protected areas of the National Marine Sanctuary System serve as pit stops for many species of migratory bird, offering rest and food along their travels. Explore bird resources in this collection.