Curriculum, Lesson Plans and Activities
 Coral Cores: Ocean Timelines (pdf, 1.7MB)
An activity describing the natural and scientific processes involved in paleoclimate research using coral cores obtained from the Flower Garden Banks.
 Coral Spawning Globe (pdf, 144 KB)
Create a model of the mass coral spawning that occurs annually, seven to ten nights after the full moon in August and/or September.
 Navigating Change Curriculum
A Teacher's Guide to Navigating Change: An educational voyage to motivate, encourage, and challenge us to take care of our land and sea. The Navigating Change Teacher's Guide is a 4th-5th grade standards aligned curriculum focused on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
 Game of Life (pdf, 128K)
What does overfishing mean? What are the effects of overfishing on fish stocks? This grade 6-8, standards-based lesson plan tackles these difficult questions.
 Empty Oceans (pdf, 132K)
How does the human population affect the population of marine species? What can citizens do to sustain seafood populations? Have your students learn more by conducting this grades 6-8, standards-based lesson plan.
 Sharkmobile
Bring this exciting program on shark biology to your school. The Sharkmobile is a free one-hour classroom program that explores the biology of sharks from around the world. Appropriate for grades 4-6 in the San Francisco Bay area.
 Stetson Bank Monitoring Activity
This activity from the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary is designed to give students a sense of the real-life science being used to conduct long-term monitoring of habitats in the sanctuary.
 Mock Shipwreck Lesson Plan
This maritime heritage-based lesson plan generates excitement among students and peaks their curiosity about the people who lived and worked along our coasts and the events that shaped who we are today.
 National Marine Sanctuary Lesson Plan
Explore our national marine sanctuaries and learn about habitats and human impacts with this internet research activity.
 From Shore to Sea: Exploring
California’s Channel Islands
Explore California’s Channel Islands with a multi-disciplinary curriculum and digital labs
 Rapid Ecological Assessment Lesson
Students will conduct an ecological assessment of a small area on school property and apply findings to the greater area.
 Using GIS to Experience Sanctuaries
Channel Islands, Florida Keys, Gray’s Reef and Stellwagen Bank national marine sanctuaries have joined forces to develop three lesson plans that combine geographic information systems and national marine sanctuaries to teach students about the oceans.
 The Land-Sea Connection
This curriculum will increase your students understanding of science and geography.
 Marine Debris Lesson Plan
Students will perform experiments to examine if debris will float, or blow in the wind. The effects of these characteristics on the marine debris are then discussed.
 Become an Ocean Explorer!
Through a National Science Foundation grant, the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary presents Ocean Explorers. Ocean Explorers empowers California teachers to involve their students in original research on issues of interest. The program also helps teachers create ocean-themed, inquiry-based learning activities that meet federal, state and local standards.
 Geodesy Discovery Kit
Geodesy is the science of measuring and monitoring the size and shape of the Earth. Learn more about geodesy through this educational discovery kit.
 Tales of Whales, Turtles,
Sharks, and Snails
An elementary level education handbook.
 Seamounts in Monterey Bay
Learn about these mountains under the sea; explore images of seamount critters and tie it all together with educational lesson plans.
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