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SELECTED MARINE EDUCATION SITES

The following sites contain a tremendous amount of material for K-12, college and general marine education. Please send us your suggestions.




MARINE SCIENCE EDUCATION

Alaska Sea Grant Marine Sites

Bridge: Ocean Sciences Teacher Education Resource Center
Where teachers will find a selection of the best online resources for marine science education (Virginia Institute of Marine Science).

EE-Link - World Wide Web site for environmental education
Part of the National Consortium for Environmental Education and Training (NCEET). Its mission is to spread information and ideas that will help educators explore the environment and investigate current issues with students. Material from various Sea Grant College programs are available from this web site.

GLIN - Great Lakes Information Network

GSENET - The Garden State Environet (New Jersey)

The JASON Project
An international, interdisciplinary program that uses state-of-the-art technology such as the Internet and satellite feeds to enable 4th-8th grade students to see and talk with scientists and researchers doing field work in remote locations in the world.

The Learning Web
Par of the U.S. Geological Survey web site dedicated to K-12 education, exploration, and life-long learning.

Maryland Sea Grant Marine Education

MIT Biology Hypertextbook
Part of the MIT Experimental Study Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)

NOAA: Education Resources
NOAA's many educational activities are distributed across the agency. This site is designed to help students, teachers, librarians and the general public access the many educational activities, publications, and booklets that have been produced.

NOAA: Sustainable Seas Expeditions
Produced by the National Geographic Society and NOAA's National Marine Sanctuary Program, provide visitors with up-to-the-minute information on the status of the expeditions and reports from expedition participants.

NOAA: National Marine Sanctuaries
Additional material for the Sustainable Seas Expeditions. NOAA is engaged in numerous scientific, educational, and technical projects within the expeditions. All of these projects and activities are reported and regularly updated on this site.

Oceanography lesson plans, part of the Encarta Schoolhouse

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library site (La Jolla, CA)

Virtual Marine Education Center
Part of Virginia Institute of Marine Science (Gloucester Point, VA)

WhaleNet
Focusing on whales and marine research, WhaleNet is dedicated to interdisciplinary education and foster excitements about learning and the environment. It is a collaborative project of the biology departments at Wheelock and Simmons Colleges (Boston, MA)


AQUARIA & MUSEUMS

National Aquarium (Baltimore, MD)

Smithsonian Institution. If this site is busy, visit its mirror site.
Ocean Planet, a Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History exhibit

Tailing The Whales, part of the Hatfield Marine Science Center site (Newport, OR)

Virginia Marine Science Museum OnLine (Hampton Roads, VA)


LINKS, LINKS, LINKS

Chesapeake Bay sites (Maryland Sea Grant)

Education World (tm) Search Engine

The Need To Know - Ecology and Environment
Part of The Need to Know Library, which includes K-12 Education Sources for Students and Teachers

WWW Virtual Reference Sites - Environment
Part of an extensive web site that contains over 2,000 links to the most popular information reference locations.