This site provides access to the full suite of BATS oceanographic data sets, including some parameters not accessible via the Classroom BATS web pages.

This page contains links to many education sites related to earth and planetary sciences. Examples include links to NASA's Quest program, The Weather Underground, and the Franklin Institute Science Museum.

From this page you can order block models for oceanography, plate tectonics, topographic land forms, and geology. These block models allow students to get hands-on experience with various science concepts. Also available are Paleozoic marine life models appropriate for use with elementary school students.

"Ask Jake the Sea Dog," is a question-answering and referral service that contains accurate information about marine science.  The site also includes previously asked questions and answers, links to other sites, and a list of reading books that deal with Marine Biology.  This site can be used for children as well as adults.

Making Waves is a multimedia approach to studying ocean sciences aimed at middle school students. A team of scientists and teachers jointly publish ocean science articles on a regular basis in the InterActive Teacher magazine. The curriculum is designed to be a three-step process. First the students read the articles. Then they try the lessons for the curricular activities associated with each article. Lastly, they surf resources on the web using the links provided to learn more about individual topics. Options for classrooms that are not on-line are also available.

This page features online excerpts from exhibits at the Monterey Bay aquarium. Also present are electronic postcards with photos of marine animals. The Learning Center has a kids' section (in "kids' E-Q") with educational games such as habitat tic-tac-toe, printable marine coloring pages and crosswords, along with other activities. Also in the Learning Center is a teacher's section ("teachers' E-Q") that discusses youth programs as well as educator workshops that are available at the aquarium.

This site, Neptune's web, is hosted by the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command. While the page is focused on oceanography, it also has a distinctly naval bent. Of main interest are the "Teacher's Realm" and the "Student's Sea of Knowledge." The "Student's Sea of Knowledge" provides facts about the oceans, a quiz, and a set of pages about the ocean including information on the ocean floor, marine life, waves, tides and currents, and more. Also included are links to other pages on marine science and a discussion on careers in oceanography. All of information in the student section is also included in the "Teacher's Realm", with the addition of lesson plans about oceanography in math, science, creative arts, language arts, social studies, and P. E.

ONSET represents a collaborative effort between San Francisco Bay Area campuses of the California State University system, government agencies, non-profit organizations, community colleges, and K-12 schools to enhance ocean science education at all levels of the curriculum. ONSET is designed to assist K-16 faculty and students in efforts to integrate computer-based resources with investigative field projects for science education at the high school through undergraduate college level. The page most likely to be of interest of educators not located in the San Francisco Bay area is the Exercises page. This page contains many exercises on various topics ranging from general oceanography, plate tectonics, and marine life to current issues such as marine pollution and marine policy. Each exercise contains a worksheet (PDF) to be printed out and given to the students. Students then work through this worksheet at the same time as they work through the exercise online. The exercises contain audio (RealPlayer) and other multimedia objects. Onset also contains links to other resources and ocean science education projects.

This site is a list of Oceanographic and Marine Biology research and information centers and projects that are going on throughout the world.  Links include "The Center for Marine Studies," and "Coral Reefs and Mangroves: Modeling Management."

This site contains links to pages on pursuing careers in oceanography as well as links to job opportunities and internships in marine science. There are pages about careers in marine science in general as well as pages on more specific careers, such as aquaculture, ichthyology, and marine mammal science.

The Smithsonian's actual Ocean Science exhibit is traveling around the country, but the web-based version is very interesting as well. The exhibit starts with displays on sounds of the sea and sea people. The Sea Store is full of interesting information about commercial products and uses of the ocean. A section on Oceans in Peril discusses current threats such as pollution, habitat destruction, and overfishing. A large list of web-based oceanographic resources is also available.

This page is the home page for Roger Stryker's 5th grade class in Austin, Texas USA. This page shows some unique ways that science can be brought into the classroom through collaborative efforts. On this page are links to educational opportunities such as Passport to Knowledge and electronic field trips (live web-casts). Passport to Knowledge is an ongoing series of interactive learning experiences using broadcast TV, video, e-mail, and the World Wide Web.

This page is constantly updated with the most recent map of the ocean's surface temperature.

This page is constantly updated with the most recent map of global sea surface temperature anomalies. This shows how the ocean's present temperature departs from the value that would be expected based on the long-term climatic average.

This page contains a world map with current and forecasted global ocean winds, including direction.

This map highlights sea surface temperature anomalies that are greater than one degree above the maximum monthly climatological temperature. These areas are potential hotspots for coral-reef bleaching.

The Sustainable Seas Expedition is a three part program spanning 5 years. In part I, the expedition team will visit each of 12 U.S. marine sanctuaries, documenting each site's plants, animals, and habitats. In part II, new technologies will be used to study the ocean's "charismatic megafauna" such as marine mammals, sharks, rays, and turtles. In part III, the Sustainable Seas team will analyze and interpret the data. This web site is intended to provide readers with up-to-the-minute information on the status of the Sustainable Sea expeditions and reports from expedition participants. The principal offering on this site is the Mission Log, a day-to-day account of the adventures and discoveries of Dr. Sylvia Earle and other mission participants. This site also provides a detailed calendar of expedition events, and explanations of some of the exploration technologies being used in the expeditions.

A book that contains fun projects and activities for schools, science fairs, etc.  Through these activities students can learn how fish move in the water, how pollutants contaminate the ocean, how to map out the ocean floor, and much more.

Oceanarium is a living museum of coral reefs.  This book contains large visual images of life in the coral reef.  It also features valuable information about coral reefs and other life in the ocean.

This book contains extensive information about the ocean, including coral reefs.  The book also includes vivid photographs of various marine plants and animals.