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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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Understanding instructional strategies.
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- Activities, lessons, and units (217)
- Arts and crafts (6)
- Background information (243)
- Career profile (95)
- Citizen science project (12)
- Collection (199)
- Coloring/activity book (37)
- Contest (3)
- Data product (162)
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- Multimedia (544)
- NOAA Education resource collection (25)
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- Climate (278)
- Freshwater (164)
- Marine life
(483)
- Adaptations (11)
- Aquatic food webs (58)
- Coral reef ecosystems (86)
- Conservation (31)
- Ecosystems (116)
- Endangered species (20)
- Entanglement (17)
- Fish (100)
- Fisheries and seafood (112)
- Invasive marine species (9)
- Invertebrates (91)
- Life in an estuary (36)
- Marine mammals (136)
- Plankton (15)
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- Seaweed, algae, and aquatic plants (24)
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- NOAA careers (28)
- Ocean and coasts
(667)
- 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 (86)
- Ocean pollution and marine debris (176)
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- ESS1: Earth’s Place in the Universe (3)
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- LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes (19)
- LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics (63)
- LS3: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits (4)
- LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity (25)
- PS1: Matter and Its Interactions (27)
- PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions (3)
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- PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer (6)
- Adopt a Drifter Program (1)
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- At Home with Galveston Bay (1)
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- CIRES/NOAA Science@Home webinar (1)
- CIRES/NOAA Serie La Ciencia-en-Casa (1)
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- Climate change in Alaska video series (1)
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- Deep-sea dialogues (5)
- Diving Deeper podcast (2)
- Do you NOAA? (1)
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- Estuary Education website (2)
- Explore remote sensing (1)
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- Finding fish hotspots and mapping coral reefs (1)
- FishWatch sustainable seafood database (1)
- FishWatch sustainable seafood video gallery (1)
- Florida Seafood at Your Fingertips (1)
- Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (1)
- Fun facts about sea life (1)
- GOES-R infographics (1)
- GOES-R printable materials (1)
- GOES-R satellite video collection (2)
- GPS educational resources (1)
- 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 (9)
- Making Waves podcast (4)
- Marine Careers: A Sea Grant guide to ocean opportunities (1)
- Marine Debris at-home collection (1)
- Marine Debris Program posters (1)
- Marine Debris STEAMSS (4)
- Marine Debris Toolkit (1)
- Maritime Archaeology (1)
- Microworlds (1)
- MOSAiC: Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate videos (1)
- MOSAiC: Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate virtual reality tours (1)
- National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) (3)
- National Geodetic Survey (3)
- National Geodetic Survey geodesy and mapping videos (1)
- National Marine Ecosystem Status (1)
- National marine sanctuaries coloring pages and puzzles (2)
- National Marine Sanctuaries Webinar Series: Archived webinars (7)
- National Severe Storms Laboratory learning resources (1)
- National Weather Service (1)
- NOAA and the Octonauts podcast (1)
- NOAA Boulder Labs: Meet our team (1)
- NOAA Boulder scientists explain science (1)
- NOAA Boulder Virtual 8th Grade Science Days (1)
- NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps (1)
- NOAA Digital Coast (2)
- NOAA Enrichment in Marine Sciences and Oceanography (NEMO) curriculum (1)
- NOAA Fisheries YouTube (1)
- NOAA Fisheries: Find a species (1)
- NOAA Live! 4 Kids (1)
- NOAA Live! Alaska (1)
- NOAA Marine Debris Program (5)
- NOAA Ocean Podcast (1)
- NOAA Office of Education student opportunities (1)
- NOAA Satellites infographics (1)
- NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer: Education materials collection (1)
- Ocean Acidification Communication Toolkit: Dungeness crab case study (1)
- Ocean Exploration careers (2)
- Ocean Exploration educational materials (11)
- Ocean Exploration facts (2)
- Ocean facts (3)
- Ocean Today
(263)
- Ocean Today: Danger zone (27)
- Ocean Today: Deeper dive (1)
- Ocean Today: Exploration (27)
- Ocean Today: Fix the ocean (21)
- Ocean Today: Go fish (9)
- Ocean Today: Marine life (45)
- Ocean Today: Research (40)
- Ocean Today: The future of ocean farming (1)
- Ocean Today: Trash talk (1)
- Ocean Today: Tsunami science and safety (2)
- Octonauts Corner (1)
- Oregon Marine Scientist and Educator Alliance (ORSEA) (1)
- Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay modules (1)
- Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory El Niño theme page (1)
- Pacific Tsunami Warning Center animations and short videos (1)
- Raindrop to Sea video series (1)
- Salmon Heroes (1)
- Sanctuaries 360 virtual dives (7)
- Sanctuaries LIVE Interactions (1)
- Sanctuaries media gallery (1)
- Sanctuaries resource collection: Coral reef ecosystems (1)
- Sanctuaries resource collection: Ocean sound and impact of noise (4)
- Sanctuaries resource collection: Whales (1)
- Satellite meteorology learning modules (3)
- Science On a Sphere catalog (12)
- SciJinks (15)
- Sea Grant podcasts (5)
- Sea-Earth-Atmosphere (SEA) resources (1)
- Severe weather 101 (1)
- Severe weather event summaries (1)
- Signals of Spring ACES (Animals in Curriculum-based Ecosystem Studies) (1)
- Solar physics and terrestrial effects curriculum guide (5)
- Space weather videos (1)
- Storm surge videos and brochures (1)
- Sustainable fisheries video gallery (1)
- Sustainable seafood video galley (1)
- Teacher at Sea (14)
- Teaching Great Lakes science (1)
- The GLOBE Program (3)
- UCAR teaching boxes (1)
- Underwater robot education theme (1)
- Weather 101 (1)
- Women in science profiles (1)
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This series of standards-aligned lesson plans explores issues related to marine debris and environmental stewardship. Each of these lessons focus on experiential, project-based learning to support student engagement and action. Each of these lessons are also available in Spanish or in a virtual format.
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Learn more about the many applications of environmental data from NOAA and our partners, including how data can be transformed into visualizations to tell a story.
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Environmental hazards — such as wildfire, flood, and drought — are increasingly affecting communities in Colorado. With this rise in hazardous events, there is a pressing need for communities to become more resilient through education, preparation, and planning. The Hazard Education, Awareness, and Resilience Task Force (HEART Force) lessons and education resources engage rural Colorado middle and high school students, teachers, and communities to take proactive steps in preparing for and responding to natural hazards.
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Enjoy this short coloring book from the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve.
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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.
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Follow along with NOAA Teachers at Sea as they participate in NOAA research voyages. Teachers and educators spend several weeks on a NOAA Ship and are part of the research crew while on board! Past blogs go back to 2003. Some blog posts are in Spanish.
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These "tiny tutorials" are designed to break the ice and get you started. These simple animations walk you through our data visualizations step by step. From there, each data portal offers many variables and dimensions to explore. So roll up your sleeves, fire up your browser or phone, and start exploring the ocean and atmosphere. Explore tiny tutorials on auroras, historical climate, magnetic fields, environmental response, fire weather, and hurricane data products from NOAA.
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Dive into tutorials on corals, estuaries, global positioning, pollution, ocean currents, and tides. Learn the basics about these topics and how they are a part of NOAA's work.
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Produced by the Teacher at Sea Alumni Association offsite link and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation offsite link, these videos feature unique stories of how teachers have found and nurtured their inner explorer.