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- (-) Adopt a Drifter Program (1)
- At Home with Galveston Bay (1)
- B-WET grantee (8)
- Bite-sized Science webinar series (1)
- Careers in hydrology (1)
- CIMSS weather and climate activities (1)
- CLEAN climate and energy education resource collection (1)
- Climate.gov (1)
- Data in the Classroom (1)
- Do you NOAA? (1)
- Earth Genius Program (1)
- ELP grantee (2)
- Estuary Education website (2)
- Faces of the National Weather Service (2)
- FishWatch sustainable seafood database (1)
- Florida Seafood at Your Fingertips (1)
- Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (1)
- Fun facts about sea life (1)
- GOES-R infographics (1)
- GOES-R satellite video collection (1)
- GPS educational resources (1)
- Great Lakes photo gallery (1)
- H.O.M.E.S. at Home webinars (1)
- Hurricane Hunters video collection (1)
- JetStream: An online school for weather (5)
- Making Waves podcast (1)
- Marine Careers: A Sea Grant guide to ocean opportunities (1)
- Marine Debris at-home collection (1)
- Marine Debris Program posters (1)
- Marine Debris STEAMSS (2)
- Maritime Archaeology (1)
- Microworlds (1)
- MOSAiC: Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate videos (1)
- MOSAiC: Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate virtual reality tours (1)
- National marine sanctuaries coloring pages and puzzles (2)
- National Marine Sanctuaries Webinar Series: Archived webinars (4)
- National Severe Storms Laboratory learning resources (1)
- National Weather Service (1)
- NOAA Boulder Labs: Meet our team (1)
- (-) NOAA Boulder scientists explain science (1)
- NOAA Digital Coast (1)
- NOAA Fisheries YouTube (1)
- NOAA Fisheries: Find a species (1)
- NOAA Live! 4 Kids (1)
- NOAA Live! Alaska (1)
- NOAA Marine Debris Program (4)
- NOAA Office of Education student opportunities (1)
- Ocean Acidification Communication Toolkit: Dungeness crab case study (1)
- Ocean Exploration educational materials (5)
- Ocean Today
(259)
- Ocean Today: Danger zone (27)
- Ocean Today: Deeper dive (1)
- Ocean Today: Exploration (27)
- Ocean Today: Fix the ocean (21)
- Ocean Today: Go fish (9)
- Ocean Today: Marine life (45)
- Ocean Today: Research (39)
- Ocean Today: The future of ocean farming (1)
- Ocean Today: Trash talk (1)
- Ocean Today: Tsunami science and safety (1)
- Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay modules (1)
- Raindrop to Sea video series (1)
- Salmon Heroes (1)
- Sanctuaries 360 virtual dives (1)
- Sanctuaries LIVE Interactions (1)
- Sanctuaries media gallery (1)
- Sanctuaries resource collection: Coral reef ecosystems (1)
- Sanctuaries resource collection: Ocean sound and impact of noise (4)
- Sanctuaries resource collection: Whales (1)
- Science On a Sphere catalog (7)
- SciJinks (13)
- Sea Grant podcasts (2)
- Sea-Earth-Atmosphere (SEA) resources (1)
- Signals of Spring ACES (Animals in Curriculum-based Ecosystem Studies) (1)
- Storm surge videos and brochures (1)
- Sustainable fisheries video gallery (1)
- Sustainable seafood video galley (1)
- Teacher at Sea (11)
- Teaching Great Lakes science (1)
- The GLOBE Program (3)
- Weather 101 (1)
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This website hosts a collection of lessons for 5th - 9th grades about the Adopt a Drifter Program, drifter buoys, and data collection. There are additional lessons for high school and undergraduate classes on buoys, data, ocean currents, and more.
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In NOAA Boulder's ask-a-scientist portal, scientists explain different weather and climate concepts, like weather in space all the way down to things we experience here on Earth.