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Marine Worlds
Expose your students to marine environments using these web resources.
Most marine worlds are situated near oceans. Telecommunications allows inland students to visit these environments and serves as a remote supplement to offline investigations in heartland schools.
Monterey Bay Aquarium
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/
At the Monterey Bay Aquarium expanded space for its renowned jellyfish collection and display of the complex ecology of its region (mbayaq).
MBARI
MBARI is the Research Institute for the Monterey Aquarium. You will see images of the canyon beneath Monterey Bay there.
Students can participate in experiments first-hand and possibly control sensors for planned dives. Keep an eye on the site for their latest plans.
Scripps Institute of Oceanography at UC San Diego(aqua)
The Scripps Institute of Oceanography (aqua) offers a field research seagoing environment for children and, in tandem with the JASON project, presents programs on cable (via Mind Extension University, a distant learning organization). Occasionally free satellite links are provided.
Woods Hole of Institute
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has links to many servers and is great for research.
Channel Islands Marine Center (cinms) at nos at NOAA
http://channelislands.noaa.gov/
The Channel Islands Marine Center (cinms) demonstrates through a Java applet how mammal sightings are recorded and tracked, courtesy of NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration).
Gulfspecimen at Adsul
Gulfspecimen depicts sea life around the Florida panhandle.
A nice comparison can be made even from far away of life around Florida's diverse sea regions.
MARE
http://lawrencehallofscience.org/mare/
MARE, developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, is not an online project.
However, MARE is included here because it is designed specifically for limited-English speaking students to transition to English and includes comprehensive staff development and even community participation components.
It demonstrates the value of developing a common explore among families for whom learning together is not a traditional expectation.
The list of skills and variety of presentation methods will give you some good ideas, too.
Great Barrier Reef
For another unique marine sealife setting look at the Great Barrier Reef.
The site includes the relevant information, though it is not technically interesting.
Safari Touch Tank
http://www.miamisci.org/tank/html/tank.htm
Similarly, Safari Touch Tank, a clickable undersea aquarium, is well-done but does not approach the real thing or the MBARI site.
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution
The Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution's scientists study rare sea creatures, including jellyfish and sharks.
While physically based in Florida, its ships explore the world's oceans.
North Carolina Aquariums
North Carolina Aquariums contains excellent lesson plans.
Halifax Harbor
http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/halifax/index-eng.php
Halifax Harbor is the largest ice-free harbor on the planet.
Today, we may take for granted transportation via bodies of water but this domain illustrates the interconnectedness of the world.
National Aquarium, Baltimore
Aqua is the aquarium in Baltimore - a bay environment.
Mote Marine Laboratory
Mote's SeaTrek features real scientists inside a shark tank.Other fields include aquaculture, ecotoxicology and more.
