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…
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…
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…
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…
Mapping an Underwater Volcano
This lesson has students analyze bathymetric maps (comparing them to topographic maps) to understand how scientists study underwater volcanoes at…
The Evidence is Piling Up… On the Seafloor
This lesson has students use or observe models to understand turbidite formation. Students then analyze data from cores and sediment…
Understanding Oceanic Crust Using Density
This lesson focuses on density, relating it to various factors that can affect the behavior of rocks and tectonic plates….
Collecting Cores from the Seafloor
In this lesson, students will analyze images from the International Ocean Discovery Program to understand the process of how cores…
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….