Web-based Resources for Teaching the Ocean System

This is a general collection of web sites that relate to teaching oceanography at the undergraduate level. Please let us know about your favorite oceanographic web sites.


Results 31 - 40 of 391 matches

Predicting Patterns: What Does La Niña Look Like? part of CLEAN Collection

This is an activity designed to allow students who have been exposed to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation to analyze the La Niña mechanism and predict its outcomes in a case study format.
CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
Learn more about this review process.

Exploring Patterns: ENSO on the Global Stage part of CLEAN Collection

In this activity, students analyze data maps of sea surface temperature anomalies for a 14-year interval and create an ENSO time line in a case study format. Based on their findings, students ...
CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
Learn more about this review process.

El Niño and La Niña Explained part of CLEAN Collection

This short video illustrates the phenomena of El Niño and La Niña: their relationships to tradewinds and surface water temperatures, and their effects on precipitation in North America.
CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
Learn more about this review process.

Data in the Classroom: Understanding Sea Level part of CLEAN Collection

This module contains five activities, in increasing complexity, that focus on understanding how to interpret and manipulate sea level data, using real data from NOAA. Students first need to ...
CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
Learn more about this review process.

Fluid Earth Viewer part of CLEAN Collection

This interactive online visualization allows the user to view a variety of weather patterns including temperature, wind, and wave action over time.
CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
Learn more about this review process.

MONASH Simple Climate Model part of CLEAN Collection

This climate model simulates the Earth's climate system by allowing users to toggle different influences on climate (e.g. oceans, atmospheric gases) based on model version used.
CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
Learn more about this review process.

Acid Test:3 Minute Science of Ocean Acidification part of CLEAN Collection

This short video is an excerpt from the longer video Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification, produced by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC). This short version summarizes ...
CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
Learn more about this review process.

Windy part of CLEAN Collection

This is a full color, worldwide, animated weather map using GIS interface showing current and projected wind and other weather conditions for any location in the world. Data can be viewed at ...
CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
Learn more about this review process.

Climate Change and the Oceans part of CLEAN Collection

This activity covers the role that the oceans may play in climate change and how climate change may affect the oceans. It is lesson 8 in a nine-lesson module Visualizing and Understanding the ...
CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
Learn more about this review process.

Effects of El Niño/La Niña on Phytoplankton and Fish part of CLEAN Collection

This video shows 15 years of data obtained via Polar-orbiting satellites that are able to detect subtle differences in ocean color, allowing scientists to see where there are higher concentrations ...
CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
Learn more about this review process.