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…
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….
Drilling Rates through Oceanic Crust
Composition, structure, fracturing, and other factors may influence the length of time required for drilling through oceanic crust. The drilling…
A “Bit” of Engineering
A revised and updated version of this lesson exists. Check out A Bit of Drilling! After the core is brought…
CORKS in the Crust
We made an updated version of this lesson! Check out Put a CORK in It: Monitoring Conditions Under the Seafloor! Since…
The “Hole” Story about Ocean Cores
Lab groups can work together to examine high resolution photos and data from four cores taken at various depths in…
A Site Survey Expedition to the Indian Ocean Poster
The Sea90E poster – written for middle and high school students – introduces what a site survey cruise is, what…
