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NOAA Ocean Service Education and NOAA Fisheries are excited to announce Modeling Marine Ecosystems with Virtual Reality, a new series of educational modules that help high school students explore how scientific models work.
These educational modules help high school students learn how scientist use models, or data rich representations of systems, to better understand and predict changes in environmental processes in the ocean, the weather, and climate.
Three themed modules — Ocean Food Webs, Observations and Models, and Predators and Prey — contain 21 interactive investigations that are aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) offsite link. In these investigations, students use scientific data and models — the same ones NOAA scientists use — to explore human-caused changes in ocean ecosystems and the impacts these changes have on the animals in those ecosystems. The modules also include resources for educators, including student worksheets, NGSS alignment, and presentation graphics.
Models, or data-rich representations of systems, help scientists better understand and predict changes in environmental processes in the ocean, the weather, and the climate. The new modules feature the Virtual Ecosystem Scenario Viewer (VES-V), an interactive virtual reality model that NOAA scientists use to visualize changing ocean ecosystems, especially fish populations.
