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Teaching Physical Concepts in Oceanography: An Inquiry Based Approach

Category: For Educators, Lesson Plans, Media, and Collaborative Research, Ocean and Climate Literacy, For Graduate Students
Resource Type: Book
Date Posted: 09/01/2009

Tested in University of Maine semester courses and summer workshops, this supplement to Oceanography magazine focuses on educational approaches to help engage students in learning and offers a collection of hands-on/minds-on activities for teaching physical concepts that are fundamental in oceanography.

Written by COSEE-OS scientists and educators, "Teaching Physical Concepts in Oceanography: An Inquiry Based Approach" is now available in hardcopy and online.

Karp-Boss, Lee, E. Boss, H. Weller, J. Loftin, and J. Albright, 2009. Teaching physical concepts in oceanography: An inquiry based approach. J. Oceanogr. 22(3), Supp.

LINK (http://tos.org/hands-on/teaching_phys.html) >>

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant # NSF OCE-0707385. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

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