Climate Fluctuations Recorded in Seafloor Sediment
This lesson has students evaluating oxygen isotope data from different sediment cores and correlating fluctuations in the data with ice…
Climate Diaries of the Deep: Research on Ancient Environments
This lesson focuses on the use of data to study how Earth’s climate has changed over time. Students use foraminifera…
Climate Data from Arctic Coring
These short activities reveal that data on past climates can be obtained from ice and sediment cores. A subset of…
Oh Brother, Is It Hot!
This lesson has students analyze data on cores taken from Brothers volcano, the site of IODP Expedition 376. The data…
A Bit of Drilling
This lesson provides an opportunity for students to look at ocean drilling through the eyes of engineers as they test…
Deep Dive into Biodiversity Below the Seafloor
This lesson has students build a model analogous to Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridization (FISH), which microbiologists can use to identify microorganisms….
Beyond the Surface: Earth’s Magnetic Memory Revealed in Seafloor Cores
Students will use paleomagnetic data taken from ocean floor drilling Site 1208 to understand that magnetic reversals have occurred throughout…
Analyzing Earth’s History Using Sediment Cores
Students will practice the skill of interpreting scientific data by describing and finding patterns in ocean sediment core samples that…
Expedition 398: A Story Told in 34 Cores
Welcome to a story about the formation of volcanoes! This book is a compilation of 34 very detailed photographs of…
3.9.2 Haiku
3.9.2.haiku captures exploration and discovery as it took place hundreds of kilometers off the coast of Cape Town, in the…