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The Oceanography Society recently published the Teaching Physical Concepts in Oceangraphy: An Inquiry Based Approach. This education supplement was supported, facilitated and funded by one of our fellow COSEE centers COSEE-Ocean Systems. This supplement to Oceanography magazine focuses on educational approaches to help engage students in learning and offers a collection of hands-on/minds-on activities for teaching physical concepts that are fundamental in oceanography. These keyconcepts include density, pressure, buoyancy, heat and temperature, and gravity waves.
The activities described in this supplement were developed as part of a Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence-Ocean Systems (COSEE-OS) collaboration between scientists and education specialists, and they were implemented in two undergraduate courses that targeted sophomores, juniors, and seniors (one for marine science majors and one including both science and education majors) and in four, week-long workshops for middle and high school science teachers.
You can access the supplement click here. Or to request single printed copies contact The Oceanography Society at info@tos.org
Movie: The Important Little Life of Dylan Diatom
"Watch this 3D animation of Dylan, a centric diatom in the Arctic Ocean. A floating plant at the bottom of the food chain, Dylan's hunted by copepods, terrorized by the elements, plagued by a warming Arctic, but triumphs in this slice of life. "
