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…
How to Read a Rock, Vol. 2: A Free Graphic Novel
How to Read a Rock Vol. 2 follows up on How to Read a Rock Vol. 1, the nonfiction graphic novel…
Using Image Data to Explore Paleoclimate
Cores for Kids
How to Read a Rock, Vol. 1: A Free Graphic Novel
For the scientists of the International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), the rocks and sediment in the cores drilled by the…
Measuring Cores: Practice Using Rulers
Into the Crater of Doom: A Free Children’s Book
Into the Crater of Doom introduces kids to the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that caused dinosaurs and many other…
Antarctic Log Comic – Expedition 379: Amundsen Sea
A team of 116 ship crew, scientists, technicians, and communicators took to the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica’s fastest-warming sea aboard the…