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2016 Global Ocean Science Education Workshop
09.13.2016    

The first Global Ocean Science Education (GOSE) Workshop in June 2015 brought together ocean scientists and education professionals from 15 nations. Panels discussed ocean science education across the K-12 pipeline, undergraduate and graduate education, and public education. Working groups discussed the future of global ocean science education, opportunities and steps for building international collaborations, and establishing a global network of networks.

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Scientific Process in Practice, an Activity Based Seminar for Beginning Ocean Science Majors
11.07.2012    

Scientific Process in Practice was a 2 hour long, weekly seminar designed to complement a field course for incoming oceanography majors (sophomores and juniors). Through hands-on activities, this seminar aimed to help students succeed in the field and later science courses.

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Aquarius/SAC-D Mission: U.S. and Argentina Working Together to Understand Our Oceans
03.14.2012    

The Aquarius mission is brimming with educational content that hits all four areas of STEM: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This poster, presented at the 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting, summarizes available educational products and opportunities.

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The Psychology of Climate Change Communication
09.11.2011    

Intended for anyone who communicates about climate change, the guide’s purpose is to assist communicators in reaching two key audiences - the general public and decision makers from government and business - more effectively.

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Geoscience Education and Diversity: Vision for the Future and Strategies for Success - Report of the 2nd Geoscience Education Working Group
01.08.2009    

The second Geoscience Education Working Group's report that includes a discussion of the overall status of the of the geoscience education and diversity community, recommendations for how the community can best promote improvements in geoscience education, and a set of strategies for strengthening geoscience education and diversity programs.

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Can You Be Science Literate Without Being Ocean Literate?
01.07.2009    

The Ocean Literacy Campaign is changing the way educators and the public think about ocean sciences education: teaching ocean sciences is not just enrichment, but is essential to science literacy. Read about how the Ocean Literacy Campaign is bringing about a paradigm shift in the way educators and the public think about Ocean Sciences Education.

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Communicating Ocean Sciences: A Course That Improves Education & Public Outreach
01.07.2009    

Together educators and ocean scientists have developed and teach a university course entitled Communicating Ocean Sciences that is now being taught in several institutions of higher education nationwide. The course is designed for undergraduate and graduate science students interested in improving their ability to communicate about complex science concepts. This paper focuses on the content, outcomes, and potential of the Communicating Ocean Sciences course.

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Mapping the Oceans – Helping Students Make Connections
10.31.2008    

COSEE-OS concept maps are designed to help teachers and their students understand the connections and relationships between climate & oceanography. These maps are created through discussion and collaboration and are ideal instruments in revealing their authors' understanding of a topic. For scientists, concept mapping helps them share their understanding of connections in the earth system. For educators, concept maps can be powerful tools for exposing and clarifying topics in the classroom.

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Temperature and Deep Ocean Circulation
04.06.2008    

This lesson explores the relationship between density and ocean currents. Deep ocean currents are caused by differences in water temperature and salinity (density). In this experiment, the students will hypothesize the cause of ocean currents and then develop a model to help explain the role that temperature plays in deep ocean currents.

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Too Many Blankets
02.24.2008    
 
Muir Glacier

This learning activity is part of an overall series entitled "The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change". This series of three activities demonstrates some effects of rising levels of greenhouse gases on climate.

The first activity, "How Does the Make-up of the Atmosphere Affect Temperature?", asks students to construct a model to address the matter of increasing levels of greenhouse gases and their relationship to increasing atmospheric temperatures. The second activity, "How Do Higher Temperatures Affect the Water Cycle?", will demonstrate how an increase in temperature will speed up the water cycle, resulting in higher rainfall amounts followed by increased evaporation and subsequent drought. The final activity, "What Will Happen if Climate Variability and Change Cause Glacier and Polar Ice Cap Melting?", will show how the melting of ice can lead to a rise in sea level and subsequent flooding of coastal areas.

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Tracking World Aerosol Hazards
01.08.2008    

This lesson plan investigation allows students to see how geography and a spatial perspective are useful in addressing global challenges. Data gathering and organization skills are emphasized as students create maps of global aerosol hazards. In small groups, students collect either long-term or short-term data showing the distribution of global aerosols and convert the data into a map. Groups then compare their maps to identify patterns and sources of aerosols around the world.

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Excavating Your Recycling Bin: Model of the Fossil Record
12.13.2007    

Scientists use layers of rock with embedded fossils to glean information about the past. These layers of rock are called strata. This simple activity simulates how scientists study the past (using a paper recycling bin and worksheet) to make the connection with students that fossil layers were deposited in a known order (deepest records are oldest), and that the collection of accurate data is critical.

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Potential Effects of Amazon Deforestation on Tropical Climate
11.03.2007    

This report describes the results of a study in which climate modeling was used to examine the effects of deforestation in the Amazon basin. The study concluded that changes in land surface properties (loss of forest cover) cause changes in the mean surface wind stress in the tropical Pacific, which in turn results in increased variability of El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events.

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Dead Zones: Why are the Waters Dying?
10.28.2007    

This lesson explores the effects of pollution, in particular nitrogen pollution, on marine ecosystems. Students can brainstorm the effects of pollution on marine life, examine the sources and causes of nitrogen pollution, discuss possible solutions, and apply their knowledge to specific actions in their own lives.

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Carbon Stabilization Wedge Game
10.23.2007    
 
Global carbon dioxide

The Carbon Stabilization Wedge game, a unique, hands-on learning tool, helps students learn the impacts of different strategies for reducing greenhouse gases. To emphasize the need for early action, this activity strives to drive home the scale of the carbon mitigation challenge and the tradeoffs involved in planning climate policy. It uses the the concept of 'stabilization wedges' - 25 billion ton "wedges" that need to be cut out of predicted future carbon emissions in the next 50 years to avoid a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide over pre-industrial levels.

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Communicating and Learning About Global Climate Change (Teacher Guide)
10.23.2007    

This teacher guide created by AAAS is designed to give you a brief overview of Project 2061's recommendations for the relevant ideas and skills that all students should learn to understand the science of climate change, the process of scientific inquiry, and the trade-offs and constraints implicit in making choices about technology.

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Diffusion at Work: An Interactive Simulation
09.15.2007    

This hands-on Oceanography article describes an activity that helps students better understand the nonintuitive concept of diffusion and introduces them to a variety of diffusion-related processes in the ocean. As part of this activity, students also practice data collection and statistical analysis (e.g., average, variance, and probability distribution functions).

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Getting to the Core of Climate Change
06.28.2007    

How can we use ice core data from the polar regions to investigate changes in Earth's climate past, present, and future? Students investigate climate changes going back thousands of years by graphing and analyzing ice core data from Greenland and Antarctica.

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Climate Change and Ecosystems
06.28.2007    

The Curriculum Guide activities engage students in an exploration of the impacts of global climate change on ecosystems and natural resources, on community, and on individuals and society.

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Thermal Expansion and Sea Level Rise
06.28.2007    

Students will use a lab activity to describe the change in water level when the water is exposed to heat, differentiate between thermal expansion and melting snow and ice fields as they relate to sea level rise, and predict the impact of rising sea level on coastal areas.

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Make Convection Currents!
06.28.2007    

Students observe convection in water due to temperature differences and describe the pattern of water movement with words and pictures. During a class discussion students learn that the same process happens in both the oceans and the atmosphere.

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