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Click here for curriculum, a five part video series and Kid Science shows associated with the Navigating Change project. Curriculum are standards-based lesson plans with activities.

NOAA's Ocean Explorer put together some excellent lesson plans for Grades 5-12 during mapping and deep-sea expeditions to the NWHI in 2002. Click here to go to their site.

reefED - The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has put together a wonderful education site full of activities and multimedia educational components about coral reef ecosystems. Click here to go to their site.

A large volume of background information for creating your own curriculum can be found in a package put together by Bishop Museum for a 2002 Teachers Workshop on the NWHI. You can download this guide here (PDF format, 777 KB)

The Albatross Project - Wake Forest University put togther a site to track the amazing travels of Albatross around the world. Lesson plans and activites can be found here.

NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program. Now in its 12th year, the program has enabled more than 360 teachers to gain first-hand experience of science at sea. Teachers can enrich their classroom curricula with a depth of understanding made possible by living and working side-by-side, day and night, with those who contribute to the world's body of scientific knowledge.

Click on one of the links below for lessons about the subject.

Marine Biology - Green Sea Turtles

Marine Biology - The effect of pollutants on Corals.

Geology - The life of an island

Oceanography & Environment - Marine debris

Scientific Inquiry - Ecological Assessment