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These activities teach concepts related to ocean acidification, pH, carbon dioxide,
coral reefs, mixing.
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Getting the Big Picture:
Reading the Ocean Stories Satellites Tell
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Students learn how satellite images can be used to learn about ocean conditions and phytoplankton
and learn to generate questions about ocean conditions, processes, and life. |
| Subject: Ocean Physics, Ocean Biology,
Ocean Chemistry, Inquiry |
Grade: 6 - 12 |
Duration: 1 to 3 x 50 min |
| Ocean Literacy Principle: #3, #5, #7 |
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Got Seaweed?
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Learners explore seaweed samples. They use different criteria to sort the seaweeds, and then are
guided to sort the seaweed based on color. Visitors also may observe what happens when powdered seaweed
is mixed with water, and predict why we might add such seaweed products to food found in our cupboards.
They then find out which foods do contain seaweed by checking the ingredients lists of some
common foods. |
| Subject: Ocean Biology, Ocean Chemistry, Human Impact |
Grade: K - 12 |
Duration: 30 - 45 min |
| Ocean Literacy Principle: #5, #6 |
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Improving Oil
Spill Response: Plotting the Currents in Prince William Sound
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Students find and use data from the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) to plot the tracks of
drifters used by scientists as real-time data to compare with computer predictions during a field
experiment to test a circulation model for Prince William Sound, Alaska. They apply their knowledge
to predicting the path of an oil spill and search & rescue. |
| Subject: Ocean Physics, Ocean Chemistry, Human Impact |
Grade: 6 - 8 |
Duration: 3 x 45 mins |
| Ocean Literacy Principle: #1, #7 |
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Litter Matching Game
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By matching descriptions to images, students identify marine debris items, leading to discussion
about the effects of marine debris and how it can be reduced. |
| Subject: Ocean Biology, Ocean Chemistry, Human Impact |
Grade: 5 - adult |
Duration: 20 - 30 min |
| Ocean Literacy Principle: #1, #6, #7 |
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My Place in Puget Sound
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In this investigative questions curriculum, students explore the relationship between their
everyday practices and chemicals in the local waters. |
| Subject: Ocean Chemistry, Human Impact |
Grade: 7 - 8 |
Duration: 2 x 50 min |
| Ocean Literacy Principle: #1, #6 |
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The Carbon Cycle Game
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A kinetic game in which students take a trip through some of the reservoirs of the carbon cycle.
Students visit stations representing stops along the carbon cycle, collecting beads along the way.
They then diagram and compare their journeys, learning about biogeochemical processes, photosynthesis
and respiration. |
| Subject: Ocean Chemistry |
Grade: 8 - 12 |
Duration: 20 - 45 min |
| Ocean Literacy Principle: #2, #3 |
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What is in the Water?
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Students will use open inquiry to learn about
the process of science as well as gain experience regarding the Law of Conservation of Mass, dissolution,
and density. |
| Subject: Ocean Physics, Ocean Chemistry, Inquiry |
Grade: 4 - 8 |
Duration: 45 - 90 min |
| Ocean Literacy Principle: #1, #6 |
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What is Light?
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| This activity explores proprieties of
light that occur within marine ecosystems - incandescence, fluorescence, phosphorescence, and
chemo-luminescence - using light sticks, flashlights, fluorescent markers and stickers, and
Pyrocystis fusiformis dinoflagellate culture. |
| Subject: Ocean Physics, Ocean Biology, Ocean Chemistry |
Grade: 6 - 8 |
Duration: 60 - 90 min |
| Ocean Literacy Principle: #5 |
