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This time of year IBP (Institute for Broadening Participation) tries to remind students of upcoming graduate fellowship and undergraduate scholarship deadlines. Many programs have application deadlin   MORE >>
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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 th   MORE >>
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Connecting students with STEM funding and opportunities, such as paid summer research, graduate fellowships, and graduate programs.   MORE >>
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Based on the recently released National Research Council report Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, this book summarizes a rich body of findings from the learning sc   MORE >>
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A portion of his webinar talk about the connections between ocean salinity, the water cycle, and global climate, Dr. Ray Schmitt talks about how conventional water cycle diagrams need a larger focus o   MORE >>
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Elizabeth Burakowski (scientist) and educators Bryan Field, Maddy Kelly, and Polly Wilson Save map to CMB: Scientist Map | Consensus MapDownload (pdf): Scientist Map | Consensus Map Dr. Burakowski's i   MORE >>
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Colin Roesler (scientist) and educators Kaitlin Fielder, Sharon Gallant, and Gineen Rhodes Save map to CMB: Scientist Map | Consensus MapDownload (pdf): Scientist Map | Consensus Map In the original "   MORE >>
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    Scientist mapConsensus map What Are Aerosols and How Do They Affect Climate Change? Hui Feng (scientist) and educators Carrie Armbrecht and Kate Leavitt Save map to CMB: Scientist Map |   MORE >>
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Climate Literacy Principle 7D: The chemistry of ocean water is changed by absorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.     Scientist mapConsensus map What Key Concept is Important for   MORE >>
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Janet Campbell (scientist) and educators Jill Denniston and Julianne Mueller-Northcott Save map to CMB: Scientist Map | Consensus MapDownload (pdf): Scientist Map | Consensus Map Dr. Campbell says, 'e   MORE >>
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Kari Heinonen (scientist) and educators Bethann Balazsi, Colin Lawson, and Margaret Tower Save map to CMB: Scientist Map | Consensus MapDownload (pdf): Scientist Map | Consensus Map Dr. Heinonen's map   MORE >>
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David Avery (scientist) and educators Kristen Andrews, James Backus, and Kim Martino Save map to CMB: Scientist Map | Consensus MapDownload (pdf): Scientist Map | Consensus Map Dr. Avery started by ma   MORE >>
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Michael Sieracki (scientist) and educators Paul McGuinness, Margo Murphy, and Susan Richman Save map to CMB: Scientist Map | Consensus MapDownload (pdf): Scientist Map | Consensus Map The challenge in   MORE >>
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Linda Kalnejais (scientist) and educators Marjorie Inderbitzen, Linda McIntosh, and Gary Neilsen Save map to CMB: Scientist Map | Consensus MapDownload (pdf): Scientist Map | Consensus Map Since Dr. K   MORE >>
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    Scientist mapConsensus map How Can Robotic Sensors Help Us Understand Climate Change & the Ocean Carbon Cycle? Benjamin Twining (scientist) and students Susie Arnold, Beth Campbell, Ker   MORE >>
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Ocean Literacy Principle 3F: The ocean has had, and will continue to have, a signicant influence on climate change by absorbing, storing, and moving heat, carbon and water.     Scientist ma   MORE >>
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    Scientist mapConsensus map Modeling the Ocean-Climate System Fei Chai (scientist) and educators Virginia Brackett, Heather Sinclair, and Rebecca Shuman Save map to CMB: Scientist Map | C   MORE >>
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Eighty six percent of global evaporation and seventy eight percent of global precipitation occur over the oceans. Sea surface salinity is a key variable in understanding how fresh water input and out   MORE >>
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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 sem   MORE >>
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Microbes account for more than 90% of ocean biomass and constitute a hidden majority of life that flourishes in the sea. This site contains a variety of educational and supporting materials for stude   MORE >>
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Though climate change isn't new, the study of how human activity affects the earth's climate is. The exploration of climate change encompasses many fields, including physics, chemistry, biology, geol   MORE >>
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Follow scientists in this excellent interactive website looking for life in the seemingly hostile hot springs of the Russian Far East. There are four units to explore: getting to Kamchatka by helicop   MORE >>
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  Most people understand that significant climate changes are predicted in the next century, but they may not be aware that these changes will likely vary regionally. Using climatological data f   MORE >>
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Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases has two objectives: to introduce students to major concepts related to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and to convey to students the relations   MORE >>
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This excellent tutorial addresses questions about ocean acidification, and the ocean's carbonate chemistry.   MORE >>
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This online textbook chapter from Rediscovering Biology supports and extends the content of Unit 5: Emerging Infectious Diseases video, which can be accessed online at the URL listed. This is course   MORE >>
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What are red tides? Red tide is a phenomenon caused by algal blooms (Wikipedia definition) during which algae become so numerous that they discolor coastal waters (hence the name "red tide"). This t   MORE >>
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Environmental conditions, interacting with the biology of disease agents, can exert profound effects. Changes in how land is used affect the distribution of disease carriers, such as rodents or insec   MORE >>
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  The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science is a course for high school teachers and undergraduate students in environmental science. Course components include 13 half-ho   MORE >>
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Want to make salinity and its connections to the water cycle, ocean circulation and climate come alive for your students? NASA Aquarius Education and Public Outreach has teamed up with COSEE-OS to co   MORE >>
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The 2008 North Atlantic Bloom Experiment (NAB08) was a collaborative effort to observe an entire phytoplankton spring bloom. To broadly disseminate results and contribute to the public's understandin   MORE >>
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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   MORE >>
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COSEE-OS External Evaluator Dr. Ted Repa, representing four COSEE Centers (California, NOW, Ocean Systems and West), shared end-of-workshop evaluations from the Faculty/Graduate Student Collaborative   MORE >>
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After a successful launch in June of 2011, the Aquarius/SAC-D satellite has begun collecting global salinity data - but it is not without challenges. Learn from NASA scientists what it took to design   MORE >>
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This NMEA Special Report on the Ocean Literacy Campaign featuring the Ocean Literacy Scope and Sequence highlights the work of dozens of agencies and hundreds of individuals to bring ocean sciences in   MORE >>
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Graduate students in the sciences who both teach and conduct research show greater improvement in their research skills than do those who focus exclusively on laboratory work, says a report to be publ   MORE >>
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Edward Maibach, M.P.H., Ph.D. and Director of the Center for Climate Change Communication (4C) lists five guiding principles in educating the public about the state of our oceans.   MORE >>
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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 bus   MORE >>
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  Hydrothermal vents are one of the most spectacular features on the seafloor. Water seeps through cracks in the seafloor and is heated by molten rock deep below the ocean crust to as high as 40   MORE >>
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In many educator professional development workshops, scientists present content in a slideshow-type format and field questions afterwards. The Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence - Ocean   MORE >>
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Discover a powerful visual tool to help your students and audiences' no matter where they live - improve their understanding of ocean and climate interactions. COSEE-OS has developed a suite of inter   MORE >>
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  Last March, Amy Holt Cline of COSEE-OS and UNH, along with Perrin Chick of the Seacoast Science Center in Rye, NH and Author/Illustrator Karen Romano Young, presented the connections between ar   MORE >>
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  The Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) is a national network with the collective mission to engage scientists and educators and transform ocean science education. As a the   MORE >>
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COSEE-OS creates and evaluates tools and processes that broaden understanding of the ocean's role in the climate and earth systems. To promote systems thinking, COSEE-OS applies the technique of conc   MORE >>
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Since 2005, COSEE-OS has been creating & testing models of collaboration, particularly with respect to reaching rural and inland audiences, engaging ocean researchers, and creating transferable activi   MORE >>
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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 collect   MORE >>
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A case study describing how Robert (Bob) Khederian, a faculty member who teaches oceanography at the New England Institute of Art in Brookline, MA, uses the COSEE-OS multimedia tools in his oceanograp   MORE >>
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The COSEE-OS Concept Map Builder is a web-based tool that allows users to create customized concept maps linked to videos, images, news, and resources. The resulting maps can be exported as XML data   MORE >>
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The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is a seesaw in atmospheric pressure between the subtropical high-pressure system over the Azores Islands and the subpolar low-pressure system over Iceland. Users   MORE >>
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Dr. Martin Visbeck's online slide show about the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is intended for older high school or undergraduate audiences. It gives background on the NAO, its impacts (temperatur   MORE >>
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This interactive learning demo includes two videos (ocean energy sources and global impacts) and supplementary resources. The ocean energy sources described and explained are tidal energy, ocean ther   MORE >>
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The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) may pale against El Nino's press, but this climate pattern can kick up a commotion all over the Northern Hemisphere. Lately, scientists have been discovering why.   MORE >>
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This website has a poster that shows several different images of microfossils, taken through microscopes, as well as activities for students simulate the identification and use of these microfossils t   MORE >>
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This Webcast is an expert lecture by Dr. Kevin Trenberth of NCAR's Climate and Global Dynamics division published on June 14, 2004. The presentation includes evidence that the atmosphere is changing,   MORE >>
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The episode Hot Zones shows just how closely human health is dependent on that of the environment. With the outbreak of thirty previously unknown diseases in the last two decades, the film examines t   MORE >>
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This is an animation showing the feeding habits of Nanomia cara (a pelagic, or mid-water, colonial jellyfish also known as a siphonophore). Nanomia feeds on small oceanic crustaceans including the ve   MORE >>
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An open source on-line textbook for upper-division college students and graduate students in oceanography, meteorology, and ocean engineering.   MORE >>
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It's always one of the first questions that everyone asks about deep ocean rock cores. Scientists studying paleohistory (past history of the Earth) need to know the answer to this question because it   MORE >>
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This interactive flash animation allows students to compare the sizes of the smallest organisms we know of on our planet. Starting with the head of a pin at 2 millimeters in diameter, students can us   MORE >>
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This resource includes animations that illustrate how the greenhouse effect works.   MORE >>
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As part of a high school course on astronomy, Newtonian mechanics, and spaceflight by Dr. David P. Stern, this webpage chapter explores the link between the tilt of the Earth's axis to the ecliptic an   MORE >>
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Exploring the Environment' (ETE) is a series of interdisciplinary, problem-based learning (PBL) modules for high school students. The project engages student teams in addressing real-world problems r   MORE >>
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This animated lesson focuses on ocean currents. Some of the topics covered include: gravity- and wind-driven currents, the Coriolis Effect, El Nino, longshore currents, upwelling, and the global conv   MORE >>
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Geodesy is the science of measuring and monitoring the size and shape of the Earth and the location of points on its surface. Geodetic data are used for navigation, communication systems, and mapping   MORE >>
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This scientific report addresses questions on climate change and public health. Can we use climate and weather forecasts to predict infectious disease outbreaks? Under the Weather evaluates our curr   MORE >>
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From this web page you can access graphic presentations of predicted and observed water levels, air and water temperatures, wind speed and direction, and air pressure in real time from U.S. coastal an   MORE >>
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The Tides and Water Levels Tutorial is an overview of the complex systems that govern the movement of tides and water levels.   MORE >>
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This website is a collection of Images and notes from a workshop presented to grade 5-12 science and math teachers, suggesting how SeaWiFS data can be incorporated into the curriculum. One of the mod   MORE >>
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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   MORE >>
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This multimedia CD-ROM provides a virtual microscope, build your own phytoplankton bloom, special topics such as upwelling, and background information in the study of primary productivity and phytopla   MORE >>
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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 propertie   MORE >>
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The Currents Tutorial is an overview of the types of currents, what causes them, how they are measured, and how they affect people's lives. It is made up of of 6 primary "chapters" or pages that can   MORE >>
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This video animation shows how oceanic rock and sediment cores are scientifically analyzed by a variety of techniques and archived in cold storage for future study. This animation covers how biologic   MORE >>
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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   MORE >>
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This is a 12-minute video on climate change made by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which can be viewed online as RealVideo or Windows Media. Some of the nation's top clim   MORE >>
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The Earth's climate is cyclical - that means that there is a regular pattern of change over time. Scientific ocean drilling has been the tool in reconstructing virtually every climate record from 500   MORE >>
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  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 a   MORE >>
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However, the Earth's history has also included events of abrupt change. At other times, the global climate system gradually moves closer to a breaking point, at which time abrupt change occurs. Scie   MORE >>
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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   MORE >>
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The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is a seesaw in atmospheric pressure between the subtropical high-pressure system over the Azores Islands and the subpolar low-pressure system over Iceland. Using   MORE >>
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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   MORE >>
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Interactive maps of surface conditions can be clicked on this tool to create in-water profiles of salinity, temperature, or density. Sources include interpolated atlas data or actual measurements fro   MORE >>
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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   MORE >>
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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   MORE >>
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In this activity, students will construct models of water molecules in the three physical states. By completing this activity, students will understand that matter can be found in three forms or phas   MORE >>
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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   MORE >>
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In this lesson, students build upon their previous investigations of water and its different forms by learning about the water cycle. Students begin by reviewing previous knowledge about water and ho   MORE >>
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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.   MORE >>
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This resource explores Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the largest structure on Earth built by living organisms. It demonstrates the types of relationships among living things that have contributed t   MORE >>
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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 stud   MORE >>
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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   MORE >>
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  This learning activity is part of an overall series entitled "The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change". asks students to construct a model to address the matter of increas   MORE >>
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In this lesson, students use observations, activities, and videos to learn basic facts about the Sun. For example, students will understand that the Sun is a star and that its radiation provides Eart   MORE >>
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This guide provides basic information for scientists who wish to engage in education and public outreach (EPO). Engaging in EPO can be an excellent way to address funding agencies' requirements that   MORE >>
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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 colla   MORE >>
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This fun webpage about microbes that help cows digest their food is part of a larger website called Microbe Zoo. On this page, students can find out how cows have a special type of stomach called a r   MORE >>
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A case study describing how Jennifer (Jenn) Bowdoin, a first-year teacher and science faculty member at Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts, uses the COSEE-OS multimedia tools to introduce the comp   MORE >>
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A case study describing how Bryan Field, a veteran teacher of 12 years and science faculty member at Conant High School in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, uses the COSEE-OS multimedia tools to help his studen   MORE >>
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This flash-based application allows users to explore concepts and their relationships through a variety of assets - videos, images, news articles, and teaching resources - within a profile that gives   MORE >>
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Contributed by COSEE-OS staff, this article addresses research and development of concept mapping techniques and related multimedia software by COSEE-OS. These tools, developed over the past three ye   MORE >>
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In the past year, COSEE-OS has run a series of model workshops that bring together teams of researchers and educators in order to synergistically improve communication of complex science topics using   MORE >>
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In response to interest from graduate students and research faculty, COSEE-OS has adapted its 'scientist-educator collaborative' workshop model to focus on graduate student professional development, a   MORE >>
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UMaine graduate student Carrie Armbrecht shares her secrets for a successful teaching experience.   MORE >>
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Teaching resources about the American Lobster including alignment with learning standards.   MORE >>
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Academic scientists have a number of avenues through which they can participate in education and outreach (E/O) programs to address the mandate for broader impacts. During this presentation, the auth   MORE >>
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Climate Literacy Climate Literacy is an understanding of the climate's influence on you and society and your influence on climate. A climate-literate person: Understands the essential principles of a   MORE >>
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Ocean Literacy Ocean literacy is an understanding of the ocean's influence on you and your influence on the ocean. An ocean-literate person: Understands the essential principles and fundamental conce   MORE >>
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COSEE-OS has completed its initial rounds of the educational resource review process using teams that each included a scientist, a classroom teacher, and an informal educator. Futhermore, all "COSEE-   MORE >>
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