Teach It!
Classroom Activities:
Activity of the Month (and archive)
Activities by Grade Level:
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Grades K-4
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Grades 5-8
- A “Bit” of Engineering
- A Rocky Timescale I
- A Tale of Two Teeth: A Hands-On Discussion about Climate Change
- An Expedition to the Seafloor
- Blast from the Past
- Changes Over Time – Microfossils in Blake’s Nose
- Citizen Scientists and Decision Making – A Case Study IODP Expedition 312 What Lies Beneath the Upper Crust?
- Exploring Ocean Science Careers
- Get Onboard the JR Using the JOIDES Resolution Website
- HardCORE Writing – Leg 171 Pencil
- It’s Sedimentary, My Dear Watson
- Legacy of Scientific Ocean Drilling Poster Activities
- Measure for Measure
- Modeling Plate Tectonics
- Mohawk Guy and his Band of Neogene Planktic Foraminifer Friends
- Nannofossils Reveal Seafloor Spreading Truth
- Secrets of the Sediments
- Sediment Deposition Supports Seafloor Spreading
- Sedimentation Rates on Shatsky Rise
- Tagging a Microbe
- Tracking the JOIDES Resolution Around the Globe
- What You See is What You Get
- Where in the World?
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Grades 9-12
- A World of Physics: Extracting Physics from the Earth and Sea
- All Caged Up
- Don’t Try This at Home
- Impact Craters and the K/T Boundary
- It’s Not Just the Core That Tells the Story
- Magnets at the Core
- Plate Tectonics and Contributions from Scientific Ocean Drilling
- Subduction Zone Conditions
- Tagging a Microbe
- The Race Is On… with Seafloor Spreading!
- What is a Core?
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Undergraduate
- A Reader’s Guide to Climate Change
- A Science Reader’s Guide to CORKS
- Abrupt Events of the Past 70 Million Years – Evidence from Scientific Ocean Drilling
- Core Section Curation
- Core Understanding – Core Description and Lithostratigraphy
- CORKS in the Crust: Part 1
- CORKS in the Crust: Part 2
- Density of Oceanic Crust
- Drilling Rates through Oceanic Crust
- High-Resolution Marine Ice Core and Marine Sediment Records Archives of Orbital Oscillations (Milankovitch Cyclicity) in Climate
- How Old is It? Part 1 – Biostratigraphy
- How Old is It? Part 2 – Magnetostratigraphy (Paleomagnetism) and the Geomagnetic Polarity Timescale
- Inquiry into High-Resolution Ice Core and Marine Sediment Records – Archives of Suborbital (Millennial) Oscillations in Climate
- Inquiry into Sediment Cores
- Like a Bolt from the Blue
- Mineralogy and Petrology of Oceanic Crust
- The “Hole” Story About Ocean Cores
- Visual Core Description
- Why Did They Drill There?
- Window on Arctic Coring
Note: Activites are in Adobe PDF format.
