In this lesson, students will use short video clips and other web resources to study the group of animals known as billfish and learn how ocean currents influence the eating habits of various fish. Students will also have the opportunity to shoot their own video to create a nature documentary to present in the classroom.

In this short video, accompanying activity, and readings, students learn about wetlands by exploring the wetlands at Haw River State Park.

Plastic bottles are used to simulate the link between land and sea. Students investigate some of the potential impacts increased nutrient use on land can have on the marine environment.

Students observe how chicken eggs can be used to simulate the potential effects of increasing ocean acidity on marine animals with calcium carbonate shells or skeletons, for example, bryozoans and cockles.

In this multimedia lesson, students learn about tides. Associated interactive activities include "Virtual Tidepool," where students explore a tidal pool habitat, "Predicting the Tides," where students consider factors that influence the tides, and "Life in the Intertidal Zone," where students learn about the specific habitats of the intertidal zones.

In this multimedia lesson, students learn about energy resources that can be harvested from the oceans. Associated interactive activities include "Wave Power," where students view the wave-energy generation process, "Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion," where students examine and compare two diagrams of OTEC facilities, and "Methane Hydrates," where students investigate the conditions that affect the stability of methane hydrates.

In this multimedia lesson, students learn about deep-sea coral reef ecosystems. Associated interactive activities include "Exploring Ocean Zones," where students use drag and drop techniques to label various ocean zones and a "Coral Crossword."

In this multimedia lesson, students learn about deep-sea ecosystems. Associated interactive activities include "Hydrothermal Vent Food Webs," where students reconstruct a hydrothermal vent fauna food web on a digital diagram and "Evolutionary Puzzle," where students investigate how evolutionary relationships support the theory of plate tectonics.

In this multimedia lesson, students learn about the deep-sea zone. Associated interactive activities include "Sunglasses in the Sea," where students analyze photographs to compare polarized and unpolarized views of marine life and evaluate how organisms uitlize tricks of light and lenses to communicate, hunt, and hide and "Bioluminescence - A Light in the Darkness," where students view a series of videos and answer associated questions.

Students analyze three broad ocean habitats, the characteristics and conditions of each, and research the animals of each zone and their adaptations.

Students discuss the information ocean maps can provide, examine a variety of ocean maps, and evaluate the purposes of each.

In this lesson, students identify some consumer goods that come from the ocean and classify these items into groups and identify their source. Students will then calculate the cost of buying such goods.

This series of lessons focuses on food production in ocean ecosystems. In Lesson Plan 15, "Being Productive in the Arctic Ocean," students will investigate how organisms make food, either through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. They will also identify factors that limit primary productivity and explain their effects. In Lesson Plan 16, "Chemosynthesis for the Classroom," students will observe the development of chemosynthetic bacterial communities in black mud and explain the relevance of chemosynthesis to biological cold-seep communities. In Lesson Plan 17, "Biochemical Detectives,' students will explore the energy-obtaining strategies of cold-seep organisms and study actual data from biochemical studies involving these organisms. Students will write brief essays summarizing each lesson as assessment.

In this activity, students are presented with a satellite image of ocean temperature, and examine the map to determine whether ocean temperature is influenced by latitude. Students graph each temperature value as a function of latitude and write a linear equation that best fits the points on their graph. A student worksheet is provided. Summary background information, data and images supporting the activity are available on the Earth Update data site. To complete the activity, students will need to access the Space Update multimedia collection, which is available for download and purchase for use in the classroom.

Through a literacy connection with Ocean! Waves for all by Stacy McAnulty and Illustrated by David Litchfield, students will engineer a solution to help the oceans and humans maintain balance given constraints.

This series of lessons focuses on the major ocean zones that would be encountered as a submersible moves through the water column on its way to the ocean floor. In Lesson Plan 13, "All That Glitters...," students will investigate how light and colors change during ocean descent and describe at least two adaptations of deep-sea organisms to low or no ambient light. In Lesson Plan 14, "Light at the Bottom of the Deep, Dark Ocean," students participate in a simulation activity to explain the impact of bioluminescence on finding food in the deep ocean.

Categorize sections of the oceans and understand their importance.

GeoInquiries are designed to be fast and easy-to-use instructional resources that incorporate advanced web mapping technology. Each 15-minute activity in a collection is intended to be presented by the instructor from a single computer/projector classroom arrangement. No installation, fees, or logins are necessary to use these materials and software.

This assessment is to be used with the lesson "An Ode to the Oyster." In this lesson, students will investigate the biological and economical importance of oysters and the oyster reef. Activities will include identification of reef organisms, exploration of the anatomy of the oyster, and role-playing exercises as biologists.

This presentation is to be used with the lesson "An Ode to the Oyster." In this lesson, students will investigate the biological and economical importance of oysters and the oyster reef. Activities will include identification of reef organisms, exploration of the anatomy of the oyster, and role-playing exercises as biologists.