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Understanding instructional strategies.
Within special categories, there is an expandable filter called “instructional strategies.” This includes special filters that are applicable for some lessons, activities, and units, including things like “outdoor education” and “uses data.”
- B-WET grantee (10)
- Data in the Classroom (6)
- Deep-sea dialogues (5)
- Diving Deeper podcast (2)
- ELP grantee (5)
- Exploring Ocean Mysteries: From Dynamic Shores to the Deep Sea (17)
- JetStream: An online school for weather (9)
- Making Waves podcast (4)
- Modeling Marine Ecosystems with Virtual Reality (4)
- National Marine Sanctuaries Webinar Series: Archived webinars (7)
- Ocean Odyssey Educators Guide (9)
- Ocean facts (3)
- Ocean Today
(263)
- 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 (40)
- Ocean Today: The future of ocean farming (1)
- Ocean Today: Trash talk (1)
- Ocean Today: Tsunami science and safety (2)
- Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay modules (4)
- Sanctuaries 360 virtual dives (7)
- Sanctuaries resource collection (6)
- Science On a Sphere catalog (12)
- (-) SciJinks (15)
- Sea Grant podcasts (5)
- Teacher at Sea (19)
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A video from SciJinks on how tornadoes form.
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How does a satellite stay up in space without falling back to Earth? How is a weather satellite able to take pictures or measure surface temperatures from space? How does a satellite communicate with Earth? Learn with this booklet!
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NOAA SciJinks inspires and engages students to learn about weather, satellite meteorology and Earth science. Their page includes background reading, videos, activities, crafts, and more!
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NOAA SciJinks inspires and engages students to learn about weather, satellite meteorology and Earth science. Dive into their video collection!
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This collection of weather games and online activities covers snow, hurricanes, tornadoes, precipitation, rainbows, lightning and more.
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Try out these four fun weather and satellite pumpkin carving templates!
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Color and learn about weather with these printable coloring pages, brought to you by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites — R Series weather satellites.
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Explore resources from NOAA SciJinks about satellites and technology.
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A video from NOAA SciJinks about clouds. All clouds are made up of basically the same thing: water droplets or ice crystals that float in the sky. But all clouds look a little bit different from one another, and sometimes these differences can help us predict a change in the weather.
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The trade winds are winds that reliably blow east to west just north and south of the equator. The winds help ships travel west, and they can also steer storms such as hurricanes, too.