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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.
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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.
Exploring activities, lessons, and units.
Activities, lessons, and units are bundled together under resource type. You can expand to filter for only one type. Activity/demonstration refers to straightforward activities with little or no classroom strategy or pedagogy. Lesson refers to structured activities that are intended for a classroom audience. Module/unit refers to a collection of lessons that can build upon each other over multiple class periods or times of instruction; some people might call this a curriculum.
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.”
- ESS2: Earth’s Systems (2)
- ESS3: Earth and Human Activity (2)
- ETS1: Engineering Design (2)
- LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics (6)
- LS3: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits (1)
- LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity (2)
- PS1: Matter and Its Interactions (2)
- PS3: Energy (1)
- PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer (1)
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Through role-playing, teamwork, and a little fate, this activity provides students with an opportunity to get an "insider's" view of what it takes to be an active stakeholder in a commercial fishery. Whether a boat owner, dockside buyer, processing plant owner, distributor, or retail seafood store operator, each student will get a deeper sense of the complex factors that determine the viability of a commercial fishery. Students will learn to understand the real costs that contribute to eventual market value, as well as experience some of the unanticipated gains or losses that can occur at any stage along the way.
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Take a 30 minute tour of the free videos and resources available from NOAA’s Ocean Today program, focusing on the Deep Sea Dive collection.
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Follow along with the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer as its crew study deep sea ecosystems and animals. During live stream periods, you can listen along as scientists comment on what they are seeing and identify animals and deep sea features in real time.
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An oil spill science communicator for the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium shares her experiences as a resident of the Gulf of Mexico during Deepwater Horizon, and what she’s learned since then.
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Meet the bizarre deep sea creature known as the Anglerfish!
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Bioluminescence, the production of light by living organisms, is an incredible natural phenomenon that occurs in several deep-sea organisms (as well as those on land, although less common). This video interview features PhD candidate Rene Martin, who studies the evolution of deep-sea fishes and the "why" and "how" behind bioluminescence. Video courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration.
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Underwater robots play a big part in deep sea exploration. This video features interviews with experts in underwater robot engineering and operations, providing a window into who builds and operates them, the engineering design process, and what the future of ocean exploration may look like. Video courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration.
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In the United States, NOAA is the only federal agency with an ocean exploration program. We go into these areas that nobody has ever been before to try to find out what is there. Follow along!
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NOAA scientists need your help to count fish and improve data used in management of the Hawaiʻi “Deep 7” bottomfish fishery! NOAA's Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center deploys camera systems on the seafloor to help monitor populations of deep-water snappers and groupers. Each camera can record tens of thousands of images! Human observers annotate the images to count and measure each species. This can take months using only a small team of researchers. With your help, we can speed up the work and train machine vision algorithms to improve our analysis. This will make us one step closer to improving fish stock assessments, which are used by fishery managers.
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An interview with scientist Sarah Purkey about her deep ocean warming research.