Source: Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures

Examine human impact on ocean ecosystems and identify the need for a sustainable management plan for the world's oceans. Learn how scientists collect data and track marine movement and understand how they use this data to educate the public.

Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8

Subjects: Science & Tech

Topics: Ecology. Oceanography.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Dragonfly TV

Explore an underwater kelp forest to determine the kind and size of animals living there, examine how organisms depend on the plants where they live, identify factors that determine an animal's choice of habitat and design a plant investigation.

Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8

Subjects: Science & Tech

Topics: Ecology. Oceanography. Energy.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures

Investigate careers in oceanography and marine exploration. Create a report on the life, education and career of a member of the Ocean Adventures Expedition team and present it in a creative way.

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12

Subjects: Science & Tech, Social Studies

Topics: Oceanography. Careers.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Concepts Across the Curriculum

Explore ocean habitats, learn about the extreme weather of the ocean and examine environmental threats to the ocean. Conduct experiments on buoyancy and osmosis, and research sailing and ocean-based industry.

Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8

Subjects: Science & Tech, Social Studies

Topics: Animals: Fish. Oceanography. Geography.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Dragonfly TV

Examine factors that impact the health of a coral reef and identify the features of healthy and unhealthy coral reefs. Discuss the challenges of exploring a place that's hard to get to and design methods for doing so.

Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8

Subjects: Science & Tech

Topics: Ecology. Oceanography.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: American Experience

Research what scientists learned in the mid-19th century about the environment deep in the North Atlantic as they laid the transatlantic cable. Create a map of the cable's approximate route and explain why it was chosen.

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12

Subjects: Science & Tech, Social Studies

Topics: Communications & Computing. Oceanography. Geography. World History: 1750-1900.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth

Trace the path that waste water takes after it is used by people and discover the pollutants it contains by the time it reaches the world's oceans. Identify animals that are affected by waste water and think of ideas for reuse and treatment of the water.

Grade Level: 6-8

Subjects: Science & Tech, Social Studies

Topics: Ecology. Oceanography. Geography.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Scientific American Frontiers

Research the composition and physiology of coral by measuring and converting measurements of the cells, temperature and sizes of polyps. Use this information and simulate how an ancient earthquake could have caused the parting of the Red Sea.

Grade Level: 6-8

Subjects: Math, Science & Tech

Topics: Functions and Algebra. Measurement. Animals: Invertebrates. Geology & Natural Disasters. Oceanography.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures

Locate ocean basins and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) on a map. Identify positive and negative impacts humans have on the ocean and the NWHI and propose ways to lessen the negative impacts and increase the positive impacts.

Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8

Subjects: Science & Tech

Topics: Ecology. Oceanography.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Dragonfly TV

Examine the factors that make a waterslide more fun, determine where the waves are better for surfing and understand how to use data to draw conclusions.

Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8

Subjects: Science & Tech

Topics: Motion & Forces. Oceanography.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project