Unearthing What’s Under the Sea
This activity allows students to use images of sediment cores taken from the ocean floor to practice analyzing data and…
Tiny Giants: Microfossils Preserve Earth’s Secrets
This is an introductory lesson focusing on biostratigraphy of ocean floor sediment. Students will build a model of a sediment…
Time Capsules of the Deep: Exploring Earth’s History through Foraminifera Extinction and Evolution
In this lesson, students will use data on microfossils recovered from the ODP Leg 130, site 806, to be able…
A Technician’s Guide to Ocean Sediment Core Descriptions
This lesson has students make Visual Core Descriptions of ocean sediment cores to mimic the work of technicians on board…
Plunging Plates
Students will investigate one type of convergent plate boundary (subduction zones) by using a hands-on model and analyzing ocean drilling…
Picture Journey: Introducing Ocean Coring
This series of mini lessons is designed to introduce students to and encourage exploration of a variety of subjects related…
Which Way is North?
This lesson has students use an interactive that will demonstrate how a compass reacts to Earth’s magnetic field at different…
Measuring Up: The Story of Rock Veins
This lesson is focused on the types and formation of rock veins that are found in ocean sediment cores. Part…
Layer by Layer: Ocean Sediment Reveals Earth’s Past Climates
First, students will use a self-created map of important events in a year of their own life as an analogy…
The Impression of Impact Craters
In this lesson, students investigate meteorite impact craters and analyze evidence for the K/Pg (formerly known as K/T) boundary impact…