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- “Audience” filters by grade level, including postsecondary education, and also has a filter option for adult learners.
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- “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.
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 (42)
- Arts and crafts (2)
- Background information (84)
- Career profile (30)
- Citizen science project (4)
- Collection (75)
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- Data product (75)
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- Multimedia (121)
- NOAA Education resource collection (6)
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- Climate (275)
- Freshwater (164)
- Marine life
(481)
- Adaptations (11)
- Aquatic food webs (58)
- Coral reef ecosystems (85)
- Conservation (31)
- Ecosystems (116)
- Endangered species (20)
- Entanglement (17)
- Fish (99)
- Fisheries and seafood (111)
- Invasive marine species (9)
- Invertebrates (90)
- Life in an estuary (36)
- Marine mammals (135)
- Plankton (15)
- Salmon (23)
- Sea turtles (64)
- Seabirds (31)
- Seaweed, algae, and aquatic plants (24)
- Sharks, rays, and skates (39)
- NOAA careers (28)
- Ocean and coasts
(665)
- Earth processes (16)
- Harmful algal blooms (19)
- Maritime archaeology and history (35)
- Ocean acidification (66)
- Ocean chemistry (16)
- Ocean currents (95)
- Ocean exploration (81)
- Ocean floor features (84)
- Ocean pollution and marine debris (176)
- Ocean sounds (15)
- Oil spills (58)
- Rip currents (22)
- Sea level rise (41)
- Tides (59)
- Tsunamis (56)
- Space (50)
- Technology and engineering (288)
- (-) Weather and atmosphere (326)
- B-WET grantee (2)
- Careers in hydrology (1)
- CIMSS weather and climate activities (1)
- CIRES/NOAA Science@Home webinar (1)
- CIRES/NOAA Serie La Ciencia-en-Casa (1)
- CLEAN climate and energy education resource collection (1)
- Data in the Classroom (2)
- Do you NOAA? (1)
- Earth Genius Program (1)
- ELP grantee (3)
- Exploring our fluid Earth (1)
- Faces of the National Weather Service (2)
- GOES-R infographics (1)
- GOES-R satellite video collection (2)
- Great Lakes Coastal Forecasting System (1)
- Great Lakes Meteorological Real-Time Coastal Observation Network (ReCON) (1)
- Great Lakes photo gallery (1)
- H.O.M.E.S. at Home webinars (1)
- Hurricane Hunters video collection (1)
- JetStream: An online school for weather (8)
- National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) (2)
- National Severe Storms Laboratory learning resources (1)
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- NOAA Boulder Labs: Meet our team (1)
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- NOAA Boulder Virtual 8th Grade Science Days (1)
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- NOAA Digital Coast (1)
- NOAA Enrichment in Marine Sciences and Oceanography (NEMO) curriculum (1)
- NOAA Live! 4 Kids (1)
- NOAA Marine Debris Program (1)
- Ocean Exploration facts (1)
- Ocean facts (1)
- Ocean Today (28)
- Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory El Niño theme page (1)
- Sanctuaries 360 virtual dives (1)
- Sanctuaries LIVE Interactions (1)
- Satellite meteorology learning modules (3)
- Science On a Sphere catalog (5)
- SciJinks (13)
- Sea Grant podcasts (1)
- Sea-Earth-Atmosphere (SEA) resources (1)
- Severe weather 101 (1)
- Severe weather event summaries (1)
- Storm surge videos and brochures (1)
- Teaching Great Lakes science (1)
- The GLOBE Program (3)
- UCAR teaching boxes (1)
- Weather 101 (1)
- Women in science profiles (1)
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Three themed modules — Ocean Food Webs, Observations and Models, and Predators and Prey — contain 21 interactive investigations. These educational modules help high school students learn how scientist use models, or data rich representations of systems, to better understand and predict changes in environmental processes in the ocean, the weather, and climate. In these investigations, students use scientific data and models — the same ones NOAA scientists use — to explore human-caused changes in ocean ecosystems and the impacts these changes have on the animals in those ecosystems. The modules also include resources for educators, including student worksheets, NGSS alignment, and presentation graphics.
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Heat related illnesses and death are largely preventable with proper planning, education, and action. Heat.gov serves as the premier source of heat and health information for the nation to reduce the health, economic, and infrastructural impacts of extreme heat. Heat.gov is the web portal for the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS). This website includes data, forecasts, safety information, and much more.
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Think about where you live. Have you ever been in a strong storm? Have you experienced flooding, a wildfire, or really hot days? These types of environmental hazards are happening more often because of climate change. Even though these events can be scary, there is so much you can do in your own community to make it better able to handle these challenges. When we work together to protect our communities from environmental hazards, we are building community resilience. In this activity book, you will learn all about community resilience and discover ways that you can make a difference. As you do the activities, keep track of your points. You will earn a badge at the end!
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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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Watch. Explore. Discover. View the beauty and mystery of the ocean realm captured on video around the globe. Videos are organized into collections to help educators.
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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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To better understand the ocean, weather, and climate connection, join NOAA Climatologist Tom Di Liberto as he examines the “wild weather.” Dr. Gerry Bell of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center also provides insight into how meteorologists and climatologists use technology and human skill to create reliable weather and climate forecasts.
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Discover America’s underwater ocean parks as we “Get Into Your Sanctuary!" The archive of this live interaction will connect you with information on what national marine sanctuaries are and bring you below the surface to virtually interact with the sea life that call sanctuaries home. Join us at any time as we explore the NOAA's National Marine Sanctuary System from wherever you live.
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On the afternoon of April 13, 2018, a large wave of water surged across Lake Michigan and flooded the shores of the picturesque beach town of Ludington, Michigan, damaging homes and boat docks, and flooding intake pipes. Thanks to a local citizen’s photos and other data, NOAA scientists reconstructed the event in models and determined this was the first ever documented meteotsunami in the Great Lakes caused by an atmospheric inertia-gravity wave.
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NOAA plans to expand its research in the Great Lakes region as the agency teams up with the travel company Viking to carry scientists aboard new expedition voyages.