Disneynature's Oceans
Disneynature's big-screen movie, Oceans, will be released on Earth Day, April 22, 2010. Disney is teaming up with The Nature Conservancy for the initiative, See OCEANS, Save Oceans, with a portion of each ticket sold for the film's opening week (April 22-28, 2010) going to help establish new marine protected areas in the Bahamas.
An Educational Activity Guide and Educator's Guide are available for downloading from the website.
A book by Nathan Yau who writes for FlowingData, Visualize This is a practical guide on visualization and how to approach real-world data. The book is published by Wiley and is available for pre-order on Amazon and other major online booksellers. Available July 2011.
"This 5-part series featured in The Seattle Times Newspapers in Education, was created to help educators introduce the complex process of how seafood gets to market. Use the classroom guide (with a glossary and activities) plus the leading questions posed within the series to engage your students. "
- Welcome to the Global Warming Wheel Card Classroom Activity Kit (PDF) (2 pp, 2.4 MB, About PDF)
- Instructions for Making a Global Warming Wheel Card (unassembled) (PDF) (5 pp, 2.4 MB, About PDF)
- Guide for Teachers (including Teacher Notes on Activities) (PDF) (3 pp, 1.3 MB, About PDF)
- Frequently Asked Questions About Global Warming and Climate Change: Back to Basics (PDF) (8 pp, 1.6 MB, About PDF)
- Activity #1: Using the Global Warming Wheel Card (PDF) (2 pp, 1.4 MB, About PDF)
- Homework for Activity #1: Electricity Use and Carbon Dioxide (PDF) (1 pp, 1.3 MB, About PDF)
- Activity #2: What You and Your Community Can Do to Reduce Carbon Dioxide (PDF) (1 pp, 1.3 MB, About PDF)
- Activity #3: A Simple Energy Audit (PDF) (3 pp, 1.3 MB, About PDF)
How to Make Red Cabbage pH Indicator
By Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D., About.com Guide
"Red cabbage juice can be used to test the pH of common household chemicals."
Make your own pH indicator solution! Red cabbage juice contains a natural pH indicator that changes colors according to the acidity of the solution. Red cabbage juice indicator is easy to make, exhibits a wide range of colors, and can be used to make your own pH paper strips (watch the video).
1 The carbon dioxide system in seawater: equilibrium chemistry and measurements
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Basic chemistry of carbon dioxide in seawater
1.3 The definition and measurement of pH in seawater
1.4 Implications of other acid-base equilibria in seawater on seawater alkalinity
1.5 Choosing the appropriate measurement techniques
1.6 Conclusions and recommendations
2 Approaches and tools to manipulate the carbonate chemistry
3 Atmospheric CO2 targets for ocean acidification perturbation experiments
4 Designing ocean acidification experiments to maximise inference
5 Bioassays, batch culture and chemostat experimentation
6 Pelagic mesocosms
7 Laboratory experiments and benthic mesocosm studies
8 In situ perturbation experiments: natural venting sites, spatial/temporal gradients in ocean pH, manipulative in situ p(CO2) perturbations
9 Studies of acid-base status and regulation
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Fundamentals of acid-base regulation
9.3 Measurement of pH, total CO2 and non-bicarbonate buffer values
9.4 Compartmental measurements: towards a quantitative picture
9.5 Overall suggestions for improvements
10 Studies of metabolic rate and other characters across life stages
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Definition of a frame of reference: studying specific characters across life stages
10.3 Approaches and methodologies: metabolic studies
10.4 Study of early life stages
10.5 Techniques for oxygen analyses
10.6 Overall suggestions for improvements
10.7 Data reporting
10.8 Recommendations for standards and guidelines
11 Production and export of organic matter
12 Direct measurements of calcification rates in planktonic organisms
13 Measurements of calcification and dissolution of benthic organisms and communities
14 Modelling considerations
15 Safeguarding and sharing ocean acidification data
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Sharing ocean acidification data
15.3 Safeguarding ocean acidification data
15.4 Harmonising ocean acidification data and metadata
15.5 Disseminating ocean
The Ocean Conservancy
pdf document, 35 pages, 2005
20th anniversary International Coastal Cleanup
The Ocean Conservancy promotes healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems and opposes practices that threaten ocean life and human life. Through research, education, and science-based advocacy, The Ocean Conservancy informs, inspires, and empowers people to speak and act on behalf of the oceans. In all its work, The Ocean Conservancy strives to be the world's foremost advocate for
the oceans.
The International Coastal Cleanup engages people to remove trash and debris from the world's beaches and waterways, to identify the sources of debris, and to change the behaviors that cause pollution.
Introduction
How to Use This Book
Quick Tips
- Shoreline Cleanup
- Underwater Cleanup
Estimating Weights and Distances
The World of Marine Debris
Activities That Produce Debris
Sample Data Card
Items Listed on the Data Card
Debris Items of Local Concern
Potentially Hazardous Items
Stranded or Entangled Animals
Natural Items
Peculiar Items
Other Volunteer Opportunities
- National Marine Debris Monitoring Program
- RECON
- Storm Drain Sentries
- Ocean Action Network
- Ocean Wilderness
More Information
About the College Board Standards for College Success (CBSCS)
The College Board Standards for College Success (CBSCS) define the knowledge and skills students need to develop and master in English language arts, mathematics and statistics, and science in order to be college and career ready. The CBSCS outline a clear and coherent pathway to Advanced Placement® (AP®) and college readiness with the goal of increasing the number and diversity of students who are prepared not only to enroll in college, but to succeed in college and 21st-century careers. The College Board has published these standards freely to provide a national model of rigorous academic content standards that states, districts, schools and teachers may use to vertically align curriculum, instruction, assessment and professional development to AP and college readiness. These rigorous standards:
provide a model set of comprehensive standards for middle school and high school courses that lead to college and workplace readiness;
reflect 21st-century skills such as problem solving, critical and creative thinking, collaboration, and media and technological literacy;
articulate clear standards and objectives with supporting, in-depth performance expectations to guide instruction and curriculum development;
provide teachers, districts and states with tools for increasing the rigor and alignment of courses across grades 6-12 to college and workplace readiness; and
assist teachers in designing lessons and classroom assessments.
"The theme of the 175th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), "Our Planet and Its Life, Origins, and Futures," celebrated an enormous breadth of scientific accomplishments that transcends many subdisciplines of the natural and social sciences. It was intended to be both a reflection on what has been learned and a look forward to what must yet be better known if we are to make wise choices as stewards of our planet. The program committee saw this as an opportunity to examine how we have come to know and understand the coevolution of life with its interacting biological, biogeochemical, and physical environments. Further advances in this area are essential to develop scenarios that can be useful in guiding decisions to address some of society's most pressing problems. We must work toward a future that embraces the wise application of science to improve human health and well-being and to sustain the great diversity of life on our planet. "