Full Resource Guide

Curriculum/Lesson Plans

NEMO: NOAA Enrichment in Marine Science and Oceanography

NEMO is a comprehensive curriculum on ocean science provided by NOAA, originally developed to enrich learning for students in Washington, DC. It covers all the primary topics of included in the NOSB competition, making it a superb resource for any team. New NOSB teams and ocean science clubs will find it especially useful. NEMO is also a great teaching resource for high school science teachers.

NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration & Research, Educational Materials

The NOAA Ocean Exploration program provides a variety of learning and teaching tools designed to engage broad audiences and enhance America’s environmental literacy through the excitement of ocean discovery. The available tools include hundreds of lesson plans written by teachers for teachers, lessons built around specific ocean exploration expeditions across the globe, multimedia packages on specific ocean science topics, the Learning Ocean Science through Ocean Exploration curriculum, and a collection of background information and lessons associated with the Gulf of Mexico and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Also available are educational materials that were developed to encourage educators, students, and citizen scientists to become personally involved with the voyages and discoveries of America’s first Federal ship dedicated to Ocean Exploration:

NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Education Materials Collection

Volume 1: Why Do We Explore?

Volume 2: Why Do We Explore?

NOAA Education Resources for Educators concerning the Gulf Oil Spill

Deep Earth Academy (DEA) Information for Educators

DEA Lesson Plans for Grades 9-12

DEA Lesson Plans for Undergraduates

MPA Facts and Tools for Ocean Literacy

The MPA Center has created a new publication on marine protected area resources and concepts for teaching Ocean Literacy. The document melds the “Ocean Literacy: Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts” developed by the National Geographic Society, NOAA and partners for K-12 curricula with resources from MPA Center that illustrate those principles. The information is intended to help educators improve ocean literacy by highlighting MPA Center resources on marine protected areas and conservation. For more information on MPA Education, visit www.mpa.gov.

Books

Any ONE of these textbooks will address the breadth of topics covered in an NOSB competition. Purchasing information is provided below, but as a teacher you may be able to request a complimentary copy. You may find earlier editions of these texts by the same authors in the library. Generally, any edition published since 1990 will be adequate.

Moran, Joseph, Ed. Ocean Studies: Introduction to Oceanography, 2nd Edition, 2008.
ISBN: 187822090X
American Meteorological Society

AMS Ocean Studies Investigations Manual:2010-2011 & Summer 2011
American Meterological Society

Sverdrup, Keith and Virginia Armherst. Introduction to the World’s Oceans, 10th edition, 2008
ISBN: 00733767701
McGraw-Hill Publishers

Garrison, Thomas. Oceanography: An Invitation to Marine Science, 6th edition, 2006.
ISBN-13: 9780495112860
Brooks Cole Publishing

Life on the Ocean Planet
ISBN# 978-1-878663-34-4
Current Publishing

Pinet, Paul R. Invitation to Oceanography, 4th Edition, Colgate University, 2006.
ISBN-10: 0763745103
Jones & Bartlett

Segar, Douglas A. Introduction to Ocean Sciences, 2nd edition, Dec. 2006.
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92629-3
W.W. Norton & Co.

Thurman, Harold V. & Burton, Elizabeth. Introductory Oceanography, 9th ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2001.
ISBN: 0-13-857061-2
Prentice-Hall Publishing

Garrison, Tom. Essentials in Oceanography, 5th ed. Brooks Cole Publishing Company, 2008.
ISBN: 978-0-49555-531-5
Brooks Cole Publishing

Other Books

These books cover fewer topics, but the coverage is more in-depth. They have been designed for secondary grade levels. These would be good supplemental texts to any of those listed above.

Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems. Robert G. Wetzel. Academic Press.

Curriculum Research and Development Group. The Fluid Earth: Physical Science and Technology of the Marine Environment, 3rd ed. U. Hawaii, Honolulu, 1996.
ISBN: 0-937049-58-1.

Curriculum Research and Development Group. The Living Ocean: Biology and Technology of the Marine Environment, 3rd ed. U. Hawaii, Honolulu, 1996.
ISBN: 0-937049-75-1

Greene, Thomas F. Marine Science, 1998.
ISBN: 0-87720-071-8
AMSCO order code: R 451 P
AMSCO Publishing

Niesen, Thomas. The Marine Biology Coloring Book, 2nd Edition.
ISBN: 0064603032

Periodicals

The following periodicals are all good sources of information regarding the oceans. Students need only be concerned with information that has been published from the last five years.

Click on the title to visit a web site associated with the magazine. Some web sites have more information than others, such as complete articles on line, topic summaries, etc. All have online subscription information. Your local public library or school librarian should be able to provide more information on where these sources are located in your area.

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National Geographic
Nature
Oceanography
Oceanus (the semi-annual report of current research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Scientific American
Science
Science News

CD-ROMS

Tasagraph’s “The Theory of Plate Tectonics”
Cost: $59 for first CD, $38.35 thereafter (plus s/h).
Contact: Tasa Graphic Arts, Inc.
Tel: (800) 293-2725
E-mail: TasaGraph [at] aol [dot] com
Website: http://www.tasagraphicarts.com/progplate.html

Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s “A Visit to an Ocean Planet”
Cost: $0 for first CD (order on-line)
Contact: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Tel: (818) 354-4321
E-mail: podaac [at] podaac [dot] jpl [dot] nasa [dot] gov for multiple copies
Website: http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/ for a single copy

Websites

There is a lot of good information on the World Wide Web on the oceans. However, there is also no quality-control mechanism. For this reason, we are restricting our recommendations to U.S. Government web sites and “The BRIDGE”. Once you leave the government domain via a “link”, there is no certainty that the information you find there is valid. These sites are offered as starting points and, therefore, these URLs are the most general ones for each agency. In some cases, particular pages of note within an agency’s web site are listed as well. These sites are a treasure trove of information, but as with most treasures it takes some time to find what you are seeking! We recommend that you use these sites mostly for studying about ocean-related current events.