Links

Activity 1: Explore the Blue Unknown

Immersion Learning’s Blast from the Past [interactive game]
JASON's Digital Learning Resource: The Commander of the Nautilus [interactive game]
JASON’s Digital Learning Resource: The Commander of the Nautilus [interactive game
National Geographic's Atlantic Ocean Geophysical Map
National Geographic’s Explorers-in-Residence Program
National Geographic’s Underwater Exploration
Nautilus Live's Imaging Shipwrecks [video]
Nautilus Live's Kolumbo Volcano [video]
Nautilus Live's Seafloor Mapping [video]
NOAA Ocean Explorer’s Maps
NOAA Ocean Explorer’s Multimedia Discovery Missions
NOAA Ocean Explorer’s To Boldly Go… [PDF]
NOAA’s Ocean Floor Features
Scripps Institution of Oceanography 's Plate tectonics: Seafloor spreading [video]
Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Plate tectonics: Subduction [animation]
Sea Research Foundation's Introduction to Nautilus Live [video]
Smithsonian Institution's Watered Down Topo Map [lesson plan]
Smithsonian Institution’s Deep Ocean Exploration
Smithsonian Institution’s Seamounts: Underwater Oases
TED's Robert Ballard on exploring the ocean [video]
TED’s Robert Ballard on exploring the ocean [Video]
The Mariners' Museum's Exploration through the Ages

Activity 2: Buoyancy Challenge

BBC's Digger and the Gang: Float and Sink [interactive activity]
Brain Pop: Sink or Float [video]
Discovery: MythBusters: Let's Talk Buoyancy [video]
Immersion Learning's My ROV [interactive game]
Nautilus Live's Hercules
Nautilus Live's Imaging Shipwrecks [video]
NOAA Ocean Explorer's Technology
PBS NOVA's Buoyancy Brainteasers
Questacon’s The Scislands Sink or Swim
Sea Research Foundation's Launching ROVs [video]
Sea Research Foundation's ROVs Hercules and Argus [video]
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Underwater Vehicles

Activity 3: Underwater Exploration Tools

Immersion Learning's Mapping Shipwrecks! [interactive game]
Immersion Learning's My ROV [interactive game]
Nautilus Live's Hercules
Nautilus Live's Imaging Shipwrecks [video]
Nautilus Live's Manipulator Arm at Work [video]
NOAA Ocean Explorer’s ROVs and AUVs
NOAA Ocean Explorer’s Submersibles
NOAA Undersea Research Program's Undersea Technology: Tools for Research
Sea Research Foundation's Launching ROVs [video]
Sea Research Foundation's ROVs Hercules and Argus [video]
Smithsonian Institution’s Call to Arms [lesson plan]
Smithsonian Institution’s Deep Ocean: Tools and Technology
Smithsonian Institution’s I, Robot, Can Do That! [lesson plan]
Smithsonian Institution’s Scientists Explore the Ocean in Alvin [Video]
Wessex Archaeology's Seafloor Explorer Game [interactive game]
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Dive and Discover: Underwater Research Vehicles
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Alvin

Activity 4: What's Up With Water?

Nautilus Live’s The Black Sea [video]
BBC's Digger and the Gang: Float and Sink [interactive activity]
Immersion Learning's Mapping Shipwrecks! [interactive game]
Institute of Nautical Archaeology’s Interactive Video: Ancient Shipwreck off Kizilburun, Turkey (Aegean Sea) [video]
NASA GES DISC’s Science Focus: Dead Zones
National Geographic’s Ballard and the Black Sea: The Search for Noah’s Flood
National Geographic’s Clues from the Black Sea [lesson plan]
Nautilus Live's 2011 Black Sea Summary [video]
Nautilus Live's 2011 Shipwrecks Summary [video]
Steve Spangler Science’s Density Tower—Magic With Science [hands-on activity]
University of Delaware’s A Black Sea Journey: Exploring Ancient Mysteries
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Dive and Discover: Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins (DHABs)

Activity 5: Searching With Sonar

National Geographic's Scientists "See" Ocean Floor via Sonar [video]
Nautilus Live's 2011 Aegean Sea Summary [video]
Nautilus Live's 2011 Black Sea Summary [video]
Nautilus Live's 2011 Shipwrecks Summary [video]
Nautilus Live's Imaging Shipwrecks [video]
Nautilus Live's Multibeam Mapping
Nautilus Live's Seafloor Mapping [video]
NOAA Ocean Explorer's Sonar and the Mendocino Ridge [video]
NOAA Ocean Explorer’s Sonar
NOAA Ocean Service Education’s Sea Floor Mapping [interactive activity]
NOAA Ocean Service Education’s Sounding Box Activity [hands-on activity]
NOAA Office of Coast Survey's Multibeam and Sidescan Sonar Animations [video]
NOAA Office of Coast Survey's Multibeam Echo Sounders
NOAA Office of Coast Survey’s Sidescan Sonar
NOAA's NOAA Ship RUDE: Technological Advances 2002
Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s How Sonar is Used in Marine Science [animation]
Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Sea Floor Science: Tools and Instruments
Smithsonian Institution's Watered Down Topo Map [lesson plan]
Smithsonian Institution’s Mapping the Ocean Floor [lesson plan]
Wessex Archaeology's Seafloor Explorer Game [interactive game]

Activity 6: Ancient Mysteries

BBC’s Primary History Ancient Greeks: The Greek World
British Museum's Ancient Greece: Underwater Archaeology [interactive activity]
Enchanted Learning’s Color an Ancient Greek Amphora [interactive activity]
Immersion Learning's Mapping Shipwrecks! [interactive game]
National Geographic Education’s Sleuthing for a Lost Ship [lesson plan]
National Geographic’s Ancient Greek Wreck Found in Black Sea
National Geographic’s Ballard and the Black Sea: The Search for Noah’s Flood
Nautilus Live's 2011 Aegean Sea Summary [video]
Nautilus Live's 2011 Black Sea Summary [video]
Nautilus Live's 2011 Shipwrecks Summary [video]
Nautilus Live's Eregli E Shipwreck Highlights [video]
Nautilus Live's Hercules
Nautilus Live's Imaging Shipwrecks [video]
The British Museum’s Ancient Greece: Underwater Archaeology [interactive activity]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Ancient Greek Colonization and Trade and their Influence on Greek Art
The University of Rhode Island’s Museum of Underwater Archaeology

Activity 7: Seeping Sea Floor

Immersion Learning’s Mud Volcanoes
National Geographic's Atlantic Ocean Geophysical Map
Nautilus Live's Hydrothermal Vents [video]
Nautilus Live's Mud Volcanoes [video]
PBS NOVA's Into the Abyss
Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Plate tectonics: Subduction [animation]
Smithsonian Institution's Submarine Volcanoes and Hydrothermal Vents [video]
Smithsonian Institution's Submarine Volcanoes Erupting [video]
Smithsonian Magazine's Underwater Volcano [video]
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Dive and Discover: Hydrothermal Vents

Activity 8: Critters of the Ocean

Census of Marine Life's Video Gallery: Background: A Journey Through Habitats [video]
Census of Marine Life's Video Gallery: Science: Deepwater Animals Live [video]
NASA’s Life As We Didn't Know It
National Geographic’s Photo Gallery: Deep-Sea Creatures
Nautilus Live's 2011 Biology Summary [video]
NOAA’s Deep-Water Corals
PBS NOVA's Into the Abyss
PBS NOVA’s Inside a Tubeworm
Smithsonian Institution's A Mosaic of Ocean Habitats: A Video by National Geographic and the Census of Marine Life [video]
Smithsonian Institution's Sea Creatures from the Deep: A Video by National Geographic and the Census of Marine Life [video]
Smithsonian Institution’s Coral Gardens of the Deep Sea
Smithsonian Institution’s Deep Ocean: Cool Stuff
Windows to the Universe’s Ocean Biome
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Dive and Discover: Hydrothermal Vents
JASON Learning: A Partnership of Sea Research Foundation and National Geographic