[Coral-List] New NOAA Curriculum on Remote Sensing and Coral Reefs
Jessica A. Morgan
jessica.morgan at noaa.gov
Wed Mar 8 09:33:15 EST 2006
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Coral Reef Conservation Program: Coral Reef Watch
** New Curriculum on Remote Sensing and Coral Reefs Now Available Online **
NOAA is pleased to announce the availability of a new curriculum unit on
remote sensing and its application to monitoring coral reefs. This set
of 7 lesson plans was designed for advanced fourth through sixth grade
students, but is also appropriate for many middle school classrooms.
Although the curriculum was designed to be taught in sequence, many of
the lessons can stand alone as individual classroom activities.
Topics include:
* Remote Sensing and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
* Altimetry
* Phytoplankton and Ocean Color
* Introduction to Coral Reefs
* Symbiosis and Coral Anatomy
* Sea Surface Temperature and Coral Bleaching
* Coral Reef Conservation
The unit was first presented at the national Satellites and Education
Conference in 2004. Now, the curriculum is available for a national
audience. NOAA Coral Reef Watch has made PDF versions of the lessons and
associated materials available on its website at
http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/education/reef_remote_sensing.html.
Users may choose a zipfile of the entire curriculum, or PDFs of
individual lessons.
For more information:
… on the entire suite of NOAA Coral Reef Watch satellite products, see
http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/.
… on the range of NOAA’s formal and informal education offerings related
to coral reefs, visit the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program Outreach
and Education page at http://www.coralreef.noaa.gov/outreach/welcome.html.
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Jessica A. Morgan
Operations Manager, NOAA Coral Reef Watch
IMSG at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/SOCD
E/RA31, SSMC1, Room 5309, 1335 East West Hwy
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3226
Phone: (301) 713-2857 x129 Fax: (301) 713-3136
Email: Jessica.Morgan at noaa.gov Web: coralreefwatch.noaa.gov
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