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…
Tiny Giants: Microfossils Preserve Earth’s Secrets
This is an introductory lesson focusing on biostratigraphy of ocean floor sediment. Students will build a model of a sediment…
Time Capsules of the Deep: Exploring Earth’s History through Foraminifera Extinction and Evolution
In this lesson, students will use data on microfossils recovered from the ODP Leg 130, site 806, to be able…
The Scale of Past Climate Events
This lesson has students analyze oxygen isotope and ice rafted debris (IRD) data to identify major climate fluctuations, correlating those…
Plunging Plates
Students will investigate one type of convergent plate boundary (subduction zones) by using a hands-on model and analyzing ocean drilling…
Oxygen Isotopes Reveal Ancient Climates
In this lesson, students will join scientists as they explore how deep ocean sediment cores are used to study microfossils,…
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…
Mapping an Underwater Volcano
This lesson has students analyze bathymetric maps (comparing them to topographic maps) to understand how scientists study underwater volcanoes at…