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This coastal acidification animation is intended to support teachers who are educating students about the causes and effects of ocean acidification...
+ More Get LessonWhy teach about estuaries? This suite of estuary education resources help educators bring estuarine science into the classroom through hands-on learning, experiments, fieldwork, and data explorations. These specially designed lessons, activities, data explorations, animations and videos can be used independently or as a supplement to existing curricula and can be adapted to meet any grade level.
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This animation demonstrates how estuaries remove toxins, sediment, and nutrients as water flows from land to sea. An interactive pollution game hel...
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Direct students to the glossary if they encounter words or terms they are unfamiliar with as you are executing estuary lessons and activities in yo...
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Esta animación demuestra cómo los estuarios eliminan toxinas, sedimentos y nutrientes a medida que el agua fluye de la tierra al mar. Un juego inte...
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This Estuaries Tutorial is an overview of estuarine habitats, the threats facing them, and efforts to monitor and protect estuaries nationwide.
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Utilice este cuestionario como prueba previa para evaluar la base de conocimientos actual de sus estudiantes sobre los estuarios y los conceptos de...
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Learn in-depth details about estuary organisms that reside in various regions around the country.
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Use this quiz as a pre-test to gauge the current knowledge base of your students around estuaries and estuary concepts.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
Data in the Classroom is an online resource for K-12 teachers interested in using real scientific data in their teaching. This website is the curre...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Our goal for this site is to provide 5th-12th grade teachers with in-class and outdoors hands-on lessons for their students. Our vision for this pr...
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Grades: 5, 6-8, 9-12
This activity introduces students to the diversity within an estuary, focusing on adaptations. Students will access a list of species that live in ...
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Grades: 5, 6-8, 9-12
In this exercise, students will take an online quiz to check their initial estuary knowledge and watch an introduction video. They will explore why...
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Grades: 6-12
One of the most pressing issues facing estuaries today is climate change. Climate extensions help students understand why and how climate change is...
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Grades: 6-8
In this activity, students will construct plankton nets. If possible, students will test out their nets to practice one method of collecting plankton.
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Grades: 6-8
In this activity, students will compare and contrast the estuary mouth closures taking place at the Los Peñasquitos Lagoon and Tijuana River Resear...
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Grades: 6-8
In this activity, students explore long-term data to recognize changes over time to an estuary habitat. Students will also make predictions about t...
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Grades: 6-8
In this activity, students will practice problem solving using science and engineering methods to design and build plankton models that will test v...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students will apply knowledge of estuary organisms to explore food webs and energy flow in an estuary ecosystem using a food pyramid. Students will...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Students examine the form and function of different horseshoe crab anatomical features.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
From oyster health to wildfire predictions and water quality, work with your students to explore real events using the System-Wide Monitoring Progr...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
NOAA Smart Buoys collect and transmit real-time weather, water conditions, and water quality data, as well as interpret key points along the John S...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
In this exercise, students will apply problem solving skills to improve the environment of a local estuary, wetland, or waterway through participat...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
In this activity, students investigate the range of conditions that selected animal and plant species need to survive in an estuary. They examine d...
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Grades: 6-9
In this activity, students learn about tides and salinity in estuaries. They observe time-lapse models of tides and salinity distribution in the Yo...
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Grades: 8-12
The purpose of this class is to create an understanding of Old Woman Creek’s watershed, how the processes operate within it, and how to ensure its ...
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Grades: 9-12
In an estuary, human interference can cause drastic changes and lead to population die offs, such as fish kills. Students investigate what could ca...
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Grades: 9-12
Although jubilee events may occur in other areas of the world, Mobile Bay is probably the only body of water on Earth where this phenomenon occurs ...
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Grades: K-12
When students can’t get to a National Estuarine Research Reserve for an estuary education experience, the reserves can bring estuary education to s...
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Grades: K-2
It’s never too early to start teaching your students to read graphs, and then they can make a work of art!
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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
NOAA’s Marine Debris Program has many engaging activities and publications to learn about marine debris and actions we can take to become part of t...
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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
In this activity, students create a model of a watershed, create farms and urban areas within it, add pollution to some areas, and watch how “rain”...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Lessons from My Reserve: This curriculum is intended to complement a visit to the Padilla Bay Research Reserve but is also appropriate for students studying estuaries anywh...
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Grades: 6-12
Lessons from My Reserve: On July 16, 2016, a large, severe thunderstorm moved through northern Wisconsin. The next morning, residents of the region woke up to see images of...
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Grades: 6-12
Lessons from My Reserve: The Sentinel Site Lesson Plan Booklet is a grades 6-12 curriculum module that explores the Reserves’ role as sentinel sites for understanding impac...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Lessons from My Reserve: The Virginia Scientists and Educators Alliance, a network of graduate students, teachers, and informal educators, has the goal of transferring scie...
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Grades: 9-12
Lessons from My Reserve: The Bringing Wetlands to Market research studies located in Falmouth and Mashpee on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, examine the relationship between salt ...
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Grades: 9-12
Lessons from My Reserve: Students will work in groups to survey a mock, locally relevant, marsh habitat that includes dominant plant community types. Students will use elev...
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Grades: 9-12
Lessons from My Reserve: This interdisciplinary high school curriculum is designed to educate students about the valuable Tijuana River Estuary’s natural and cultural resou...
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Grades: K-12
Lessons from My Reserve: Explore our new curriculum guide for K-12 classrooms. These inquiry-based, multi-component STEM education units are a guide for teachers and studen...
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Grades: K-2
Lessons from My Reserve: Children in kindergarten through second grade will learn about estuaries and some of their inhabitants through this fun coloring book.
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Grades: K-2
Lessons from My Reserve: Learn fun facts about the salt marshes of the southeastern United States through word searches, coloring pages, and activities.
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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Lessons from My Reserve: These lessons have everything from salt marsh skits to fish shape investigations. Your students will have fun learning about estuaries with these a...
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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Lessons from My Reserve: These activities offer a variety of learning opportunities for students and anyone who is interested in learning more about nature. Get ideas for a...
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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Lessons from My Reserve: These activities for kids and families will get you started on some Neighborhood Nature adventuring.
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Grades: PK-12
Lessons from My Reserve: Bring 10 percent of earth’s freshwater into your classroom! This curriculum is aligned with the Great Lakes Literacy principles and searchable by t...
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