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The Green Room: Mass Extinctions in the Ocean
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue offers classroom activities that focus on marine extinctions.
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Real-Time Ocean Data in the Classroom
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To apply students’ savvy internet skills in the science classroom—as well as capture their interest in science and investigation, and provide opportunities for authentic research—introduce them to real-time data from…
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Join us on Thursday, March 13, 2025, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET, to learn about ocean acidification. The ocean acts like a sponge, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Increased absorption by the ocean causes…
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Idea Bank: Monitoring the Oceans from the Classroom
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Major disasters such as the tsunami of 2004 and hurricanes of 2005 have emphasized the need for an organized global network of ocean observing systems. As a result, Observing System Education has been identified as one…
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Ocean Acidification: Hands-On Experiments to Explore the Causes and Consequences
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Ocean acidification is one of the most serious environmental issues facing the planet (e.g., Doney 2006; Guinotte and Fabry 2009). It is caused by excess carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Human activities such as…
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Science 101: Why are oceans salty and lakes and rivers not?
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For starters, lakes and rivers do contain salt, just not as much as the oceans. A large portion of those salts and minerals washes downstream into other rivers, or through the outlet stream or river of a lake, and…
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The Ocean Platform Engineering Design Challenge: Flooded With Stem Content and Practices
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Design and build a floating structure that can withstand the motion and forces at play in the ocean.
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Exploring the Complexity of Ocean Acidification: An Ecosystem Comparison of Coastal pH Variability
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Use authentic data to compare pH variability in three different coastal marine ecosystems.
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