Activity 1: The Ocean in Motion

COSEE West's Ocean Tube: Movies and Animations: Phytoplankton Video

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's Education and Research: Testing Hypotheses: Coastal Processes: Upwelling Case Study

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

NOAA Fisheries’ Coastal Upwelling

NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries' Ecosystems: Connected by the Currents

NOAA National Ocean Service's Currents Lesson Plans

NOAA Ocean Explorer's Sanctuary Quest: Upwelling

NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research's El Niño

OceansLive Teachers' Oceans for Life: Biodiversity

The Weather Doctor's Weather Phenomenon and Elements: Of Shoes and Ships and Rubber Ducks and a Message in a Bottle

Windows to the Universe's Currents of the Ocean

Activity 2: What's in Your Watershed?

Elkhorn Slough

Environmental Protection Agency's Adopt Your Watershed: Storm Drain Stenciling Project Guidelines

Environmental Protection Agency's Exploring Estuaries

Environmental Protection Agency's Surf Your Watershed: Locate Your Watershed

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary's Citizen Watershed Monitoring Network: Current Events & Reports (includes Snapshot Day reports)

NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserve System

USGS's Primer on Water Quality

USGS's Water Resources of the United States

Activity 3: Intertidal Survivor

Enchanted Learning's Intertidal Animal Printouts

LiMPETS (Long-term Monitoring Program & Experiential Training for Students)

LiMPETS' Species

Linda Arnold’s Hold On or Go With the Flow

Marine Discovery Centre's Intertidal Rocky Shores Interactive Database

Monterey Bay Aquarium's Online Field Guide

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries' Encyclopedia of the Sanctuaries

NOAA National Ocean Service Education's Tides and Water Levels

Oceans for Life: Biodiversity Video

Race Rock's Taxonomy

U.S. Department of the Interior’s Tidepool Math [PDF]

Activity 4: Forests of the Sea

Kelp Forests of Monterey Bay Video

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Monterey Bay Aquarium's Teachers & Kids: Classroom & Learning Resources: Learning Activities

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Kelp Management Report

National Geographic's Sustainable Seas Expedition: Monterey Bay: Kelp Forest Virtual Dive

NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries' Ecosystems: Kelp Forests

NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries' Encyclopedia of the Sanctuaries

NOAA’s Ocean Life: Underwater Forests [Video]

Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN)

Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN)’s Kelp Forests

Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Kelp Forest, Ghost Forest [Video]

Activity 5: Otters and Urchins

American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation: Biodiversity in Crisis: Food Web

Friends of the Sea Otter

Kelp Forests of Monterey Bay Video

Monterey Bay Aquarium's Sea Otter Research and Conservation

Monterey Bay Aquarium's Underwater Kelp Cam

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries' Ecosystems: Kelp Forests

QUEST: What's Killing the Sea Otters? Video

Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN)

Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN)'s Special Status Species: Southern (California) Sea Otter

Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN)’s Kelp Forests

Science News for Kids' Sea Otters, Kelp, and Killer Whales

Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Kelp Forest, Ghost Forest [Video]

Sea Otter Alliance's What's Killing California Sea Otters?

Activity 6: In the Deep, Dark Sea

American Museum of National History's They Glow

BBC's Blue Planet Challenge: Alien Planet

Deep-Sea Scyphozoan Jellyfish Video

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's Bioluminescence and Biodiversity Expedition 2007

Monterey Bay Aquarium's Exploring Monterey Canyon Program and the Deep Sea

Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Dive Into the Deep Sea [PDF]

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN)

Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN)'s Submarine Canyons Overview

Sea and Sky's Monsters of the Deep

Terrain Magazine's The Deep Next Door: Life in the Darkness of Monterey Canyon

The Bioluminescence Web Page's Photos of Luminous Organisms

WHOI Sea Grant Program and NH Sea Grant Program's Marine Careers: George I. Matsumoto

Activity 7: Surveying the Seas

American Cetacean Society

BBC's Blue Planet Challenge: Travel the World

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's EARTH: Pelagics on the Move

Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Critter Cards: Marine Mammals

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

NOAA Fisheries Service's Alaska Fisheries Science Center: National Marine Mammal Laboratory: Marine Mammal Education Web: Education Species Index

NOAA Fisheries Service's Southwest Fisheries Science Center

NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries' Encyclopedia of the Sanctuaries

Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN)

Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN)'s Open Ocean

Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP)

Activity 8: Who's Who at the Sanctuary

Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE)'s OceanCareers

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

NOAA Careers

NOAA Ocean Explorer's OceanAGE Careers

Peter Brueggeman's Careers in Oceanography, Marine Science & Marine Biology

Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN)

The WHOI Sea Grant Program and NH Sea Grant Program's Marine Careers