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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).
- 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)
- EE-Link - Teacher Resources
- This site has a lot of resources for the classroom. Students should check out their student programs.
- Education World (tm) Search Engine
- WWW Virtual Reference Sites - Environment
- Part of an extensive web site that contains over 2,000 links to the most popular information reference locations.
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