Chikyu Chronicles: Comics from IODP Expedition 405
Climb aboard Chikyu, a giant Japanese research ship, and follow a team of scientists from around the world as they…
Virtual Expedition to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
This lesson uses microfossils from drill sites on both sides of the Mid-Atlantic ridge. For each site, students will use…
Plunging Plates
Students will investigate one type of convergent plate boundary (subduction zones) by using a hands-on model and analyzing ocean drilling…
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…
Where the Pacific, Cocos, and Nazca Meet
In this lesson, students will calculate rates of sea floor spreading using magnetic anomaly data taken from sediment cores collected…
Investigating Seafloor Spreading Using Nannofossils
This lesson focuses on determining the age of oceanic crust at ocean ridges using nannofossils. Students will model seafloor spreading,…
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…