USEFUL LINKS/ RESOURCES
FREE and AWESOME ONLINE RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS & STUDENTS
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC offers a number of opportunities for Educators! From Professional Development courses, to Grants (yep, $!), to fantastic classroom resources. Definitely worth exploring their site! https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/ NASA offers lesson plans, games and materials here https://www.nasa.gov/stem/foreducators/k-12/index.html and check out this Citizen Science opportunity to get your students "working" for NASA while gaming called Nemo-Net. Also by NASA, Giovanni offers endless possibilities to educators who want to explore satellite data in the classroom! Resources to get started can be found here https://www.strategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/EducGuide_508Fin.pdf The Monterey Bay Aquarium MBARI also has an excellent hub for using satellite data for marine education https://www.mbari.org/satellite-resources/ with lesson plans and project ideas. NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency) also has a number of interesting resources in their site https://www.noaa.gov/education TED-Ed (a branch of the TED Talks Initiative) has launched a new program called TED Earth School that is definitely worth exploring https://ed.ted.com/earth-schooled.ted.com/earth-school PBS has a dedicated hub for marine science materials https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/marine-science/ca.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/marine-science/ And finally, check out some materials that I helped develop with Amigos de Bolsa Chica for educators and students interested in learning more about coastal wetlands www.amigosdebolsachica.org/video_educators.php www.amigosdebolsachica.org/virtual_educators.php |
ASSOCIATIONSNational Marine Educators Association
http://www.marine-ed.org Citizen Science Association http://citizenscience.org LISTSERVsCitSci-Discussion-L listserv
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/citscitoolkit/elist/discussion WATER-ED For educators conducting outdoor-based aquatic science, elementary, secondary, adult e-mail [email protected] with the message: subscribe WATER-ED UCLA’s Ocean Listserv http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oceanlist |
