Lesson Plan

Oil and Art

The students will generate a KWL focused around the BP oil spill. What do they...

Lesson Plan

Light in the Deep

How are deep sea animals adapted to their environment? Students will explore one...

Lesson Plan

Marine Environments

A series of lesson plans that help students understand the properties of the deep...

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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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Five Methods for Tracking the Ocean's Motion

From the time of Aristotle until the European Renaissance, a roughly 1,000-year...

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Fish Heart Out of Water

Under the lens of a microscope—in a shallow, glass well—spindly orbs pulse at...

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Deep Sea Dreamers

A dreamer is not only the term for someone with aspirations and goals, it is also a...

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Brittle Star Clings to Damaged Deep-sea Corals

In 2010, scientists from NOAA and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute found dead and...

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Pelicans Roost at Oil Spill "Ground Zero"

Two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, brown pelicans roost on a mangrove...

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Oil Drilling Platform in the Gulf of Mexico

Bonny Schumaker, cofounder of the nonprofit On Wings of Care, flies over the Gulf...

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Oily Marsh after the Oil Spill

Dark brown oil floods a marsh on the Mississippi Delta after the Deepwater Horizon...

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Dolphins Swim in Oily Waters

Striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) observed in emulsified oil on April 29,...