Specially for Kids - These items are designed especially
for children (grades K-5) and provide fun activities for kids to
explore the planet they live on.
• Sea Floor Mapping
Join Cobalt, the Sea Floor Detective, and Saftey Seagull as they explain how scientists map the ocean floor, what nautical charts are and how their used, and why this information is so important. This interactive multimedia Web site is designed for children at the 3rd through 5th grade level and contains animations, movies, fun facts, and much, more! http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education_new/seafloor-mapping
• NOAA Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory - This web page allows you to view, copy or download 3 different educational activity books developed by the lab's education staff. How do biologists research and keep track of sea turtle populations in order to save them? Learn about wildlife and why caring for their wetland habitat is not just about them. Think like a shrimp fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico -- there is more to learn about these decapod crustaceans than you think!
http://galveston.ssp.nmfs.gov/kidstuff/index.html
• Coastal North Carolina Activity Book - This book for young children provides information on Coastal North Carolina coasts and organisms and gives them the opportunity to color, connect the dots, solve mazes, try word searches and more.
http://www.coastalscience.noaa.gov/education/ncbook.pdf
• Salish Sea Activity Book - This book for young children provides information on the Salish Sea and gives them the opportunity to color, connect the dots, solve mazes, try word searches and more.
http://www.coastalscience.noaa.gov/education/ssbook.pdf
• Chesapeake Bay Activity Book - This book for young children provides information on the Chesapeake Bay watershed and gives them the opportunity to color, connect the dots, try word searches and even make recipes.
http://www.coastalscience.noaa.gov/education/cbbook/cbbook.pdf
• Mobile Bay Activity Book - This book for young children provides information on Coastal North Carolina and gives them the opportunity to color, connect the dots, solve mazes, try word searches and more.
http://www.coastalscience.noaa.gov/education/mbbook.pdf
• Why is Hawaii's Ocean Important? - A Keiki Activity Book - This book for young children provides information on Hawaii, its fish and its ocean. The booklet provides children with the opportunity to color, make a mobile, play the migration game, try word searches and more.
http://www.coastalscience.noaa.gov/education/hibook.pdf
• Kohola and Kolea - The Whale and the Plover
- This coloring book is
written in both Hawaiian and in English.
www.education.noaa.gov/books/whlplvr/whlplvr.htm
• Marine Debris Coloring Book
- This coloring book helps kids understand
how to recognize the hazards of throwing junk into the ocean and
overboard from boats.
www.education.noaa.gov/books/debris/debris1.htm
• Pacific Coral Reef Coloring Book
- This coloring book lets kids see the
beauty and value of coral reefs.
www.education.noaa.gov/books/paccoral/pacreef.htm
• Puffy the Puffer Book of Fun Fish Facts
- A coloring book for kids that
highlights marine trivia, games, mazes, a quiz and more.
www.education.noaa.gov/books/puffy/puffy.html
• Adopt A Buoy Activity Book
- There are two pages to color on this site
and the site focuses on the activities of the data buoys that provide
information about the oceans surrounding the United States and its
territories.
www.education.noaa.gov/books/adopt/adopt0.html
•
Tsunami for Kids -
the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program works to reduce the
impact of tsunamis. "Tsunami, the Great Waves" is a site for kids to
learn about tsunamis, the long ocean waves
which are frequently caused by underwater volcanoes.
www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/kids.html
• Habitats of North Pacific Marine Fish - This coloring exercise teaches how
fish prefer different parts of the ocean. Temperatures vary in different parts of
the ocean, and different fish are adapted to live in these different temperatures.
Students color in a map of the North Pacific and then add stickers of different
fish species based upon information provided on where the fish like to live.
The teacher version, at www.pfeg.noaa.gov/research/publications/PDF/PFELfishteacher.pdf,
includes a key showing a correctly completed version. The link provides a
downloaded, color printable version of the exercise and "print your own" fish stickers
in Adobe Acrobat format. This page takes at least 90 seconds to download. The fish
stickers are printed on Avery laser labels, style #5160.
www.pfeg.noaa.gov/research/publications/PDF/PFELfishkids.pdf
• Arctic & Antarctic Activity Book – In celebration of the 2007/8 International Polar Year, this book for young children provides information on the arctic and Antarctic, their similarities and differences, and gives them the opportunity to color, connect the dots, solve mazes, try word searches and more
http://www.coastalscience.noaa.gov/education/aabook.pdf
• Coastal Louisiana Activity Book – This book for young children provides information on Coastal Louisiana and gives them the opportunity to color, connect the dots, solve mazes, try word searches and more.
http://www.coastalscience.noaa.gov/education/labook.pdf
Specially for Students - These items are designed especially
for students (grades 6-12) to provide a way of learning about the earth in a
fun and informative way.
• Marine Careers - The site includes overviews of the fields of marine
biology, oceanography, and ocean engineering; a look at what the future
is likely to hold for careers in these fields; links to a wide range of
additional resources; information on salaries in various marine science
fields; and other great stuff. This site is a project of the National
Sea Grant College Program and is based on the publication Marine
Science Careers: A Sea Grant Guide to Ocean Opportunities. (This is a not a U.S. Government website. NOAA is not responsible for the content of external internet sites).
www.marinecareers.net
• Office of Response
and Restoration
- This site for students helps teach about how NOAA and other agencies respond
to oil spills and hazardous chemical accidents. It also contains some
experiments to try.
response.restoration.noaa.gov/kids/kids.html
• Spuzzled for Kids
- This site takes NOAA images and offers students the chance to put those images into
the correct order while also learning more about the environmental work of the Agency.
There are four spuzzles in this section: Charting and Navigation, Coasts, Oceans, and
Fisheries.
scijinks.jpl.nasa.gov/noaa/spuzzled/index.shtml
• Estuaries -
Where Rivers Meet the Sea
- This site has two purposes:
1. Provide information on National Estuaries Day activities, such as
Estuary Live and local National Estuarine Research Reserve and
National Estuary Program events.
2. Serve as a long-term resource for information on the importance of
estuaries and the need to protect them. This is an interagency Web
site intended to provide students, educators and the general public
with information on a variety of estuarine issues.
estuaries.gov
•
Viewing Protected Marine Species in the Wild -
This web page helps the public understand its responsibilities to marine mammals
in the wild. The National Marine Fisheries Service is reponsible for managing and
protecting whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and sea lions, and it has regulations
prohibiting feeding these marine mammals in the wild. There are also restrictions
as to how close we can get to these animals.
www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/MMWatch/MMViewing.html
•
LEARN ABOUT BRAIN-EATING SEA SQUIRTS AND MORE AT HAWAII'S FUN SITE -
Interesting and useful information abounds on Hawaii Sea Grant's
award-winning Sea Squirt website. First, visitors learn that "after
finding a suitable rock or place to call home, juvenile red sea squirts
no longer need their brains, so they eat them. Shaka the shark doles out
advice for kids visiting the
beach. "Don't stand on coral reefs," and "Use the restroom, not the
ocean," are two of his points. Downloads include a marine activity
workbook, several coloring and activity books and marine life icons for
your computer. Links for teachers, kids and parents, a quiz to test
knowledge of Hawaiian sea life and a virtual aquarium are more features
on the site. (This is a not a U.S. Government website. NOAA is not responsible for the content of external internet sites).
www.soest.hawaii.edu/SEAGRANT/kids/indexkids.html
•
Science with NOAA Research - This web page provides middle
school students with research and investigation experiences using on-line
resources. Even if you do not have much experience in using web-based
activities in science, the directions here are easy to follow. Ocean
topics include ocean temperatures, currents, fisheries, and the Great
Lakes.
www.oar.noaa.gov/k12/
•
The NOAA Ship and the Student Connection - the NOAA Ship TOWNSEND
CROMWELL conducts fishery and living marine resource research in support
of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), from the Honolulu
Laboratory in Hawaii. The ship normally operates in the
Pacific in and around the Hawaiian Island Archipelago. It collects fish
and crustacean specimens using bottom trawls, longlines, and fish traps.
Fish larvae, eggs and plankton are also collected using plankton nets
and surface and midwater larval nets. The CROMWELL maintains a web site
titled Student Connection. The web site utilizes the Internet and
Inmarsat (satellite communications), to provide twice weekly communication
between students and the research ship. Through this web site, students can follow the
vessel's daily operations through regularly posted pictures and
write-ups.
www.pmc.noaa.gov/tc/index.htm
• National Marine Sanctuaries 'For Students' - National marine sanctuaries are living classrooms that can be explored in person or through interactive digital labs and activities. In the NOAA National Marine Sanctuary Prorgam's "For Students" section, you will find games, online story books, marine life encyclopedias, information on marine careers, activities, free materials and other cool stuff.
http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/students/
