OCEANS & OCEAN LIFE PATHFINDER
Keywords:
Ocean, sea, sea life,
coral reef,
PRINT RESOURCES:
Call Numbers:
Many books about
oceans are located at 551.4 and 574.72
Books about ocean animal life are located at 597 and 594
Reference Books:
Kids and
Science Encyclopedia - REF 570.21 KID
Biomes of the World - REF 577.21 BIO
Ultimate Panoramic Atlas - REF 912 ULT
WEBSITES:
MR. HOFFMANN'S ASSIGNMENTS:
National Ice Center
http://www.natice.noaa.gov
http://www.rdc.uscg.mil/iippages/faq/faq8.html
http://www.usc.uscg.mil/lantarea/iip/home.html
(This
third one is the one that works)
FISH FAQS Activity
http://www.wh.whoi.edu/homepage/faq.html
Mrs. Block's - "CURRENT" HISTORY WEBSITE
Mrs. Weigel's - Coral Reef Project
STUDENT RESOURCE CENTER,
which you can access via Rosa Online
Resources, connects you to six overview essays and 45 magazine and newspaper
articles when you search for coral reefs.
NOAA's
Coral Reef Home Page
This
is certainly the place to start with this project. NOAA provides
current information on our underwater rain forests, has an extensive collection
of photos, and provides links to other reliable information.
NOAA's Paleoclimatology Home Page
This site describes the connection
important questions between global climate and the use of coral
reefs. The site was part of the 1997 celebration of the International Year of
the Reef (IYOR).
NOAA's
25 Best Reasons to Save Coral Reefs - NEW!
Recommended by Tiffany Swander.
The title says it all!
Smithsonian Institute's Coral Reef
The Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystem Program in Belize is a research project of
the Smithsonian Institution to study and monitor these communities. This
is another reliable source of information about coral
reefs.
KidsClick's
Coral Reefs Sites
As
usual, you can rely on the search results of KidsClick! They connect you
to three great sites.
Reef
Ecosystem - NEW! Recommended by Alex
Goldman.
This site give information from a video series that is
about the various animals and corals that are part of the Australian
coral reef.
Sea World's Reef Ecosystem - NEW! Recommended by Victoria Long and her friend. This site has information about the animals what they eat.
GENERAL OCEANIC WEBSITES:
NOAA's
Home Page
This is the place to start for studying the oceans.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warns of dangerous weather, charts our seas and skies, guides
our use and protection of ocean and coastal resources, and conducts research to
improve our understanding and stewardship of the environment which sustains us
all.
NOAA is an organization of the Department of Commerce, and is comprised of the National Ocean Service, National Weather Service, National Marine Fisheries
Service, National Environmental Satellite Data, and
Information Service, and Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.
Aquarius
Explore Aquarius, the world's only underwater laboratory operational
in our world's oceans which is located adjacent to a coral reef in the
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary .Aquarius is owned and funded
by the NOAA and is operated by the University of North Carolina.
Photo
Lab of NOAA
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Photo
Collection has been in
existence since 1970, and
includes over 10,000 digitized photos. This site includes images of marine life, weather phenomena,
instrumentation, ships, ocean scenes and much more.
Museum
of Natural History Virtual Tours
Explore our
Ocean Planet of Search for Giant Squid at the Museum of Natural History's Online Exhibits website.
Get to Know our Planet Ocean.
Since its launch into orbit in August 1992, the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite has mapped 95% of the ocean's
surface topography, noting liquid hills and valleys. From its vantage point 826 miles above us,
TOPEX/Poseidon can measure sea surface height within two inches. The birth of El Niņo can be seen in Pacific Ocean snapshots
from the fall of 1994 that show both increases and decreases in normal sea height.
The
Tide Pool Page
This interactive virtual tour web page, from
MIT, is devoted to the type of tide pool found in the Pacific
Northwest. Tide pools are created where rocky shores are covered and uncovered daily by the ocean.
The Evergreen Project
This website
lets you explore the shoreline, the temperate oceans, and tropical oceans. Each ecosystem is a self-containing
world with a complex food chain and many organisms.
Oceanic
This site
maintains a searchable list of schedules and characteristics for deep-water scientific research
vessels.