This article and video highlights a sustainable aquaculture practice in Hawaii, through returning unsold oysters. This promotes recuperation time and helps stabilize the population.

This website covers a wide range of severe weather and how to stay safe in the summer months.

This video helps students understand the difference between weather and climate and discuss how global climate is monitored by taking the ocean's temperature.

This resource explains and visually shows the difference between high and low tide.

Students discover benefits to ocean exploration. Students will work collaboratively to research the topic and prepare an oral report. Students will also construct Learning Shapes to summarize modern reasons for ocean exploration and will use their creations to play a competitive "Ocean Exploration Bowl" game.

This video explains a tsunami-monitoring device called DART, which alerts scientists to tsunami warnings.

Students sort trash that has been left in an estuary ecosystem by determining what can be recycled.

This video provides an overview of what a tsunami is, and the role energy plays.

This interactive resource allows students to click on a state and examine the different climates.

This activity allows students to explore tides and practice answering questions about them.

Students analyze maps of shipping lanes and whale sightings to propose a new shipping lane through the Stellwagon Bank National Marine Sanctuary to minimize ship strikes on whales. Students will read background information and conduct additional internet research to gather information. Then students will take on roles of the key stakeholders in this issue and work collaboratively to develop new a new plan, discussing problems and possible solutions. One representative from each group will share the plan with the rest of the class.

This video shows seals migrating by seasons. This also highlights the decline in their species due to human activity.

Students find out how people and animals affect each other as they work through the simulation, helping protect Loggerhead sea turtles and their habitat, so they can survive.

This game occurs inside the ecosystem of an estuary on the west coast of the United States. Following a young girl named Valerie, players interact with Oscar the sea otter, and the fictional Claminator, a geoduck clam. To succeed, players must learn about the factors that produce healthy estuaries, food webs, and why estuaries are essential to both ocean life and to humans.

Students will describe how climate change is affecting sea ice, vegetation, and glaciers in the Arctic region, explain how changes in the Arctic climate can produce global impacts, and will be able to provide three examples of such impacts. Students will also explain how a given impact resulting from climate change may be considered ?positive? as well as ?negative?, and will be able to provide at least one example of each. Students will work in collaborative groups to research this issue and gather information to participate in a large-group discussion. In an optional extension activity, students create a photocube display with images of the Arctic region.