Discovery Under the Ocean Floor
This lesson has students analyze ocean sediment cores to understand how scientists use this evidence to reconstruct the geologic history…
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….
Crustal Clues: Investigating Seafloor Spreading
This lesson focuses on how sediment deposition and thickness on the ocean floor evidence for seafloor are spreading. Students will…
Put a CORK in It: Monitoring Conditions Under the Seafloor
This lesson has students interpret data from monitoring equipment installed within holes in the ocean floor from which sediment cores…
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…
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…
Oceanic Crust and Age
Earthquakes and Plate Boundaries
From the Mountains to the Ocean
In 2004, a magnitude >9 earthquake struck North Sumatra and the Andaman-Nicobar islands leading to a huge tsunami. In order…