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From the Top of the World...to the Bottom of the Food Web part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This resource, by the Bigelow Laboratory, is designed to help teachers and students discover linkages among marine ecology, phytoplankton, the behavior of light at the ocean surface, and ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Ecology:Food Webs:Microbial Food Webs, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Marine, Water Column, Biology, Microbiology
Resource Type: Activities
Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Activities
Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Toxic and Harmful Algal Blooms – Educational Activities part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Bigelow Laboratory site is designed to helps students and teachers discover information about toxic and harmful algal blooms (HABs). Five online standards, based educational activities, explore ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Ecology:Food Webs:Microbial Food Webs, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Marine, Water Column, Biology, Microbiology
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity
Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity
Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
The Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Science Museum of Minnesota interactive site is designed to teach elementary school kids about the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. It addresses the questions what is a dead zone, what causes it, and ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Marine, Water Column, Geoscience:Oceanography, Geology:Geochemistry, Biology:Ecology:Principles, Biology:Microbiology
Resource Type: Audio/Visual, Activities
Extreme Environments: Anoxic
Ocean Environments: Coastal and Estuarine
Grade Level: Middle (6-8), Intermediate (3-5)
Resource Type: Audio/Visual, Activities
Extreme Environments: Anoxic
Ocean Environments: Coastal and Estuarine
Grade Level: Middle (6-8), Intermediate (3-5)
Black Smokers part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This brief web article features black smokers and discusses the history of their discovery, the geologic processes creating black smokers, and the various life forms inhabiting this extreme ...Subject: Biology: Geoscience:Hydrology, Biology:Microbiology, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Geology and Geophysics, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geophysics, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Marine, Geoscience:Oceanography:Chemical
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Extremely Hot
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), General Public, Intermediate (3-5), Primary (K-2), Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Extremely Hot
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), General Public, Intermediate (3-5), Primary (K-2), Middle (6-8)
Black Smoker, Hydrothermal Vent part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website features an overview of the research of Dr. Craig Cary at the University of Delaware Graduate College of Marine Studies. Dr. Cary's research focuses on black smokers and the ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Microbiology, Geoscience:Hydrology, Oceanography:Biological, Biology:Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Marine
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Extremely Hot
Ocean Environments: Deep Sea Floor/Abyssal:Hydrothermal Systems, Mid-ocean Ridge
Grade Level: General Public, High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8), Intermediate (3-5)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Extremely Hot
Ocean Environments: Deep Sea Floor/Abyssal:Hydrothermal Systems, Mid-ocean Ridge
Grade Level: General Public, High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8), Intermediate (3-5)
Water Bear part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This National Geographic Kids site features a "far out" fact about tardigrades, or water bears, along with a comical illustration.Subject: Biology: Biology:Microbiology, Biology, Ecology:Metabolism
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Anhydrous
Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), Primary (K-2)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Anhydrous
Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), Primary (K-2)
Tardigrada (Water Bears) part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This reference page offers a brief description of Tardigrades, also known as water bears. It includes information about their physical appearance, an explanation of their name, likely habitats, ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Ecology:Metabolism, Biology:Microbiology, Biology, Evolution
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8)
Tardigrades part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This online article describes tardigrades and discusses how amateur microscopists can help scientists understand more about microscopic organisms called tardigrades, commonly known as water bears. ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Microbiology:Methods of Microbiology :Culturing Methods, Microscopy, Biology:Microbiology, Biology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Extremely Cold, Anhydrous
Grade Level: General Public, College Lower (13-14), Informal, High School (9-12), Middle (6-8), Intermediate (3-5)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Extremely Cold, Anhydrous
Grade Level: General Public, College Lower (13-14), Informal, High School (9-12), Middle (6-8), Intermediate (3-5)
Black Smokers! part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This webpage contains a brief introduction to the discovery of hydrothermal systems and black smokers. Within the webpage are links to information on gigantic tube worms, polychaete worms, oceans, ...Subject: Biology: Geoscience:Hydrology, Biology:Microbiology, Geoscience:Oceanography:Chemical, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Marine, Geoscience:Oceanography:Biological
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Extremely Hot
Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), College Lower (13-14), General Public, Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Extremely Hot
Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), College Lower (13-14), General Public, Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Australians Sweep up Black Smoker Chimney part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This brief web article features an Australian research team who dredged up a black smoker from the deep waters of the Bismark Sea. The article recounts the team's expedition and discusses the ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Microbiology, Ecology:Habitats:Marine
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Extremely Hot
Ocean Environments: Deep Sea Floor/Abyssal:Hydrothermal Systems
Grade Level: General Public, High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8), Intermediate (3-5)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Extreme Environments: Extremely Hot
Ocean Environments: Deep Sea Floor/Abyssal:Hydrothermal Systems
Grade Level: General Public, High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8), Intermediate (3-5)