Links to Educational Resources in Oceanography & Earth Sciences

Most links are external; privacy policies of these sites may differ from NGDC's.

• American Geological Institute - Investigating Earth Systems
• American Museum of Natural History - Science Bulletins
• Aquarius-World's Only Underwater Laboratory
• Bridge Ocean Science Education Resource Center
• Classroom Exploration of Oceans 2005
• Classroom at Sea (European Union/EUROSTRATAFORM)
• Climate Timeline Information Tool
• Coast - Consortium for Oceanographic Activities for Students and Teachers
• Deepest Place in the Ocean
• Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)
• Dive & Discover, Expeditions to the Seafloor from WHOI
• Dive! to an Active Submarine Volcano! - NOAA's NEMO
• Dynamic Earth - Smithsonian Institution
• Earth Exploration Toolbook
• Earth History Illustrations by Douglas Henderson
• Earth Like a Puzzle from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Earthquakes! IRIS Education and Outreach
• Educational Discovery Kits from NOAA's Ocean Service
• Education Resources from NOAA
• Exploratorium Coolest Earth Science Web Sites (timeout last check)
• Exploring the Ocean Basins with Satellite Altimetry
• Into the Abyss from NOVA
• Joint Oceanographic Institutions - School of Rock & JOI Learning
• K-12 Resources at UC Berekeley Museum
• Marine Sediments: What Can We Learn from Mud?
  
  (Ocean Drilling Distance Learning Program)
• Marsh Mission
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Kids page
• National Science Foundation Geosciences Links for Kids
• Norwegian Team Discovers Northernmost Vent Fields in the World
• NOAA 200th Anniversary - for Kids and Educators
• NOAA Ocean Explorer
• Ocean Drilling Program Earth Science Curriculum
• Ocean Link - a Marine Science Information & Interaction Site
• Oceans Alive - Looking at the Sea - Physical Features of the Ocean
• Paleoclimate Primer from NOAA
• Project Oceanography, Univ. of S. Florida
• Rutger's Cool Classroom
• Signals of Spring(teaching students and teachers to analyze real-time NASA Earth imagery to explain animal migrations)
• Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) K-12 Education Site
• Southampton Oceanography Centre - Seafloor Science...
• This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics (USGS)
• Venture Deep Ocean
• Virtual Ocean - Microscopic Life Forms
• Visions of the Past - Dinosaurs & More from PALEONET
• Voyage to the Deep - Univ. Delaware
• Volcano Expedition from SIO
• Volcano World, Univ. N. Dakota
• What is a Hydrothermal Plume? from NOAA
• Why Study Seafloor Composition?

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