Island Explorer Lesson Plans: http://www.usc.edu/org/seagrant/Education/IELessons/IELessons.html Grades 4th-6th Hands on marine science activities correlated with the California Science Framework focus on Southern California and Catalina Island coastal environs. Program can include a field trip to the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina and other optional field activities.
Island Explorer Parent Child Education Program: A short course for parent/child teams in marine and environmental science that focuses on the urban /ocean connection, geared toward students in 4th-6th grades and their parents. http://www.usc.edu/org/seagrant/Education/ParentChildEdu/ParentChildEd.html
OceanGLOBE - Beach research project for Grades 4-12 students, field guides to marine organisms, classroom marine science activities for grades 4-12, ocean sciences PowerPoint slide shows.
18 marine science lectures presented between October 2002 and April 2003: http://www.msc.ucla.edu/sswims/powerpoints.htm The lectures are downloadable as Powerpoint slide shows and as PDF files. They are password protected and may be used only for educational purposes. To request the password, e-mail Peggy Hamner @ phamner@ucla.edu and explain how you will use the lectures.
marine science lesson plans for grades 4-12 created by teachers participating in SSWIMS: http://www.msc.ucla.edu/sswims/Implementationplans.htm (The lesson plans are downloadable as PDF files. No password is required.
Santa Monica Bay Observatory Teachers’ Portal - This web page now contains 3 lesson plans developed in 2005-‘06 by teachers participating in an outreach project funded by a National Science Foundation (USA) grant to UCLA researchers. The lesson plans, for middle and high school students, incorporate data collected by the Santa Monica Bay Observatory (SMBO), operated by UCLA. Lesson plans now being created by 2006-’07 participant-teachers will be posted in the summer of 2007. Links on this page access most of the data collected by SMBO and also will send the viewer to other relevant websites.
The Santa Monica Bay Observatory (SMBO) is an element of theSouthern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS). It consists currently of an oceanographic mooring located about 10 miles offshore within Santa Monica Bay, a shorebased station at the Santa Monica Pier, and observations taken bi-weekly from UCLA's oceanographic research vessel (SeaWorld UCLA). The data from this interdisciplinary project aims to document the physical, chemical, and biological variations in Santa Monica Bay, and most of the data collected by the various platforms are made available to the public through the SMBO website.
Teacher's Domain - Featuring public television content, Teachers' Domain provides multimedia classroom resources and professional development online multimedia courses to K-12 educators. Resources include video clips, graphics, lesson plans, and activities. A catalog of online courses is available.
