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Seafloor Graveyard

Lesson Plan: Seafloor Graveyard

Links to the materials included in the lesson plan

• Definitions
  • Hypoxia - from PISCO at Oregon State University (pdf)
  • Upwelling - from NOAA National Ocean Service
• Resources
  • Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)
  • Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO)
• Pre-assessment
  • Pre-survey (pdf)
• Cause and Effect
  • Video: 2000 vs 2006 (link)
  • Student Worksheet #1 (pdf)(doc)
• Measuring Ocean Conditions
  • Student Worksheet #2 (pdf)(doc)
  • Reading: Ocean Observatories Initiative
  • Readings: Dissolved Oxygen and (pdf)
• Engineering Considerations for Monitoring Equipment
  • Student Worksheet #3 (pdf)(doc)
  • Photos and Data (pdf)
  • Descriptions and Challenges (pdf)
• Effects on the Ecosystem
  • Student Worksheet #4 (pdf)(doc)
  • Video: Hypoxia: Dead Zone
  • Reading: Hypoxia off the Pacific Northwest Coast (pdf)
• Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen
  • OOI Data Explorer
  • Student Worksheet #5 (pdf)(doc)
  • Student Worksheet #5 KEY (pdf)
  • Student Worksheet - Extension (pdf)(doc)
  • OOI Tutorial with Jonathan Fram
• Career Connections
  • Marine Careers handout (pdf)(doc)
  • Marine Careers
• Evaluation
  • Poster Instructions and Rubric (pdf)(doc)
  • Post-Survey (pdf)

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