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Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Estuary Food Pyramid
Students learn about the feeding relationships in an estuary ecosystem with this interactive energy pyramid activity. A second activity involves research and a video clip to elaborate the learning.
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Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Hooray for Horseshoe Crabs
Learn about the anatomy and ecological relationships of the horseshoe crab.
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Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Seasonal Swings
Students use an interactive map to compare environmental conditions in different estuaries around the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. A second activity allows students to use the Graphing Tool to find, select, and graph data...
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Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: The Great Oyster Mystery
Like a canary in a coal mine, oyster health and oyster abundance can tell us about changing conditions in an estuary.
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Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Water Going Up, Water Going Down
In this interactive learning module, students discover the effects of the changing tides on the life and health of an estuary ecosystem.
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Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Where Rivers Meet the Sea
A complete learning module where students watch an introductory video, take an estuary quiz, learn about landforms related to the environment, and use maps and real-time data to study estuary ecosystems in the United States.
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Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: The Jubilee Phenomenon
Learn about the unusual jubiliee phenomenon that occurs regularly in Mobile Bay, Alabama. Includes teacher resources with learning exercises and vocabulary terms.
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Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Port to Port
Many people depend on the estuary to earn a living. Meet a Louisiana man who makes his living by harvesting crabs and shrimp, and is worried about the health of the estuary. Includes downloadable teacher guide and student materials.
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Noaa: Oil Spill Resources
An excellent collection of resources and activities for exploring oil spills and chemical disasters.
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Noaa: Ocean Service Office of Response and Restoration: Response Tools
Listed is information to support effective and safe responses to oil spills in the coastal environment. Links provide access to software & data sets, publications and web portals.
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Noaa: National Climatic Data Center
Search the world's largest archive of weather data or click on the links to learn about extreme weather. Look up weather information about your city or town.
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Noaa: Center for Tsunami Research
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's site for tsunami research of improved measurement technology, development and implementation of improved models and improved methods to predict tsunami impacts on the population and...
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Noaa: Florida Keys: Coral Reefs
This effective site provides interesting information on the third largest coral reef system in the world. Physical requirements needed for coral reefs to survive are included in this site. Growth and Reproduction, coral reef types, and...
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Noaa: National Ocean Service: Education: Currents
Illustrated tutorial explains the numerous factors which shape ocean currents. Animations help students visualize how these aspects constantly affect the water movement in the ocean and how scientists use this information to study ocean...
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Noaa: Homepage
This is the homepage and online publication of National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which provides weather and environmental-related news from around the world.
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Noaa: Education Resources
Links to earth science sites, including safety tips, fun activities, general earth science information, and daily weather reports and more.
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Noaa: Tying Knots to Solve Problems [Pdf]
Learn how to tie different types of knots and discover how they are useful in everyday experiences.
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Noaa: Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System: Data in the Classroom
NOAA Smart Buoys collect and transmit real-time weather, water conditions, and water quality data. Chesapeake Exploration gives teachers and their students unprecedented access to lessons designed around real-time observational data from...
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Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Biodiversity in an Estuary
This activity introduces students to the amazing biodiversity of an estuarine environment, focusing on the habitats in the Rookery Bay National EstuarineResearch Reserve, Florida. They begin by exploring the estuary using Google Maps....
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Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Dissolved Oxygen in an Estuary
In this activity, students focus on the relationship between dissolved oxygen, plant growth, chlorophyll-a and temperature using SWMP water quality data from monitoring stations in the Narragansett Bay Estuarine Research Reserve and the...
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Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Extreme Weather and Estuaries
Students investigate how hurricanes can affect National Estuarine Research Reserve System estuaries. This activity consists of 2 parts which help deepen understanding of estuarine systems: Investigating an Estuary and Impact of Extreme...
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Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Human Impact on Estuaries
Students will make a model of a pollution spill that occurred at Bangs Lake, a tidal lake within the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Mississippi, in April 2005, and measure water quality parameters in their model....
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Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Salinity and Tides in York River
In this learning activity, students explore tides and salinity from tidal freshwater to high salinity conditions along the York River estuary. They learn how salinity changes with an incoming and outgoing tide, observing the dynamics of...
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Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Survival in an Estuary
This activity introduces students to the nature of estuaries, estuarine environmental factors, and four important abiotic factors-pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen, and salinity-and how they vary in estuaries. A PowerPoint presentation,...