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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition

Oysters are powerhouses of water filtration. In a single day, one oyster can filter...

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An App Helps Scientists Combat Illegal Fish Trade

Relationships often begin with the locking of eyes. For Yvonne Sadovy, it was a...

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On the Trail of DNA in the Ocean

DNA is everywhere—it can be found in hair, saliva, blood, bones, feces or even...

Lesson Plan

Expedition to the Poles

Students will use NASA satellite data to...

Lesson Plan

Is Climate Change Good For Us?

In this activity students are encouraged to consider how climate change could...

Lesson Plan

It’s Not Just the Core that Tells the Hole Story

Students read about “down-hole logging” technology, in which instruments are...

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Head to Foot

The lesson begins with a broader introduction on new species discovered around...

Lesson Plan

Do You Know the Fish You're Eating

Students design and conduct research to discover firsthand what type of fish is...

Lesson Plan

Fish and Kids

A package containing lessons, worksheets, and activities to teach young students...

Lesson Plan

Game of Life

The goal of this game is to illustrate to the students what happens to a fish stock...

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Net Results

Students will study and replicate a model of the factors affecting fisheries...

Personal Perspectives

Comics at Sea: An Antarctic Logbook

For five years, I've had a photograph of Palmer Station, Antarctica, tacked up over...