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A "Bit" of Engineering

Audience:

Grades 5-8

Keywords:

ocean drilling | JOIDES Resolution | engineering | drilling tools | drill bit
A Bolt from the Blue

Audience:

Grades 9-12 | Undergraduate

Keywords:

gas hydrates | clathrate structure
A Reader's Guide to Climate Change

Audience:

Grades 9-12

Keywords:

Ocean Drilling Program | global warming | Earth history | climate change
A Rocky Timescale 1

Audience:

Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Keywords:

paleomagnetism | magnetostratigraphy | magnetic reversal | magnetic north pole | declination
A Tale of Two Teeth: A Hands-On Discussion about Climate Change

Audience:

Grades 5-8

Keywords:

seasons | sea level | inquiry | glaciers | fossils | evidence | climate change
A World of Physics: Extracting Physics from the Earth and Sea

Audience:

Grades 9-12 | Undergraduate

Keywords:

seismic waves | paleomagnetism | geophysics | earth's magnetic field
Abrupt Events of the Past 70 Million Years - Evidence from Scientific Ocean Drilling

Audience:

Grades 9-12 | Undergraduate

Keywords:

stable isotopes | rapid climate change | paleoceanography | mass extinction | global warming | Earth history
All Caged Up

Audience:

Grades 9-12

Keywords:

molecular structure | methane | hydrogen bonding | gas laws | gas hydrates
An Expedition to the Seafloor - Using Google Earth and Ocean Cores to Analyze Seafloor Spreading

Audience:

Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Keywords:

sediment | seafloor spreading | plate tectonics | Mid-Atlantic Ridge | Google Earth | basement rock
Blast from the Past

Audience:

Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Keywords:

Chicxulub crater | asteroid
Changes over Time - Microfossils in Blake's Nose: November 2007 Activity of the Month

Audience:

Grades 5-8

Keywords:

microfossils | Geologic Time | evolution | data | activity of the month
Citizen Scientists and Decision Making - A Case Study from IODP Expedition 312

Audience:

Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Keywords:

science journalism | public affairs | press release | media | internet
Climate and Sediment

Audience:

Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Keywords:

sediment | cores | climate change | climate
Continents and Currents

Audience:

Grades K-4 | Grades 5-8

Keywords:

plate tectonics | sea floor spreading | Pangaea | ocean currents
Core Description and Lithostratigraphy

Audience:

Grades 9-12 | Undergraduate

Keywords:

visual core description | stratigraphy | sedimentology | ocean cores | lithology
CORKS in the Crust

Audience:

Grades 9-12 | Undergraduate

Keywords:

vents | seismic events | ocean observing | Juan de Fuca | formation pressure | earthquakes | CORKs
Don't Try This at Home

Audience:

Grades 9-12

Keywords:

methane | gas laws | gas hydrates | chemistry
Gumby Suit Coloring Page

Audience:

Grades K-4

Keywords:

survival suit | life preserver | JOIDES Resolution
HardCORE Writing - Leg 158 Pencil

Audience:

Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Keywords:
HardCORE Writing - Leg 171 Pencil

Audience:

Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Keywords:

impact | crust | core sample
High Resolution Marine Ice Core and Marine Sediment Records:Archives of Orbital Oscillations (Milankovitch Cyclicity) in Climate

Audience:

Grades 9-12 | Undergraduate

Keywords:

precession | oxygen isotopes | obliquity | Milankovitch cyclicity | insolation | eccentricity | climate change
How Old is It? Part 1 - Biostratigraphy

Audience:

Grades 9-12 | Undergraduate

Keywords:

relative age | micropaleontology | extinction | biozones | biostratigraphy | absolute age
How Old is It? Part 2 - Magnetostratigraphy (Paleomagnetism) and the Geomagnetic Polarity Timescale

Audience:

Grades 9-12 | Undergraduate

Keywords:

paleomagnetism | magnetostratigraphy | magnetic reversal | Earth history | declination
How Small? How Big? How Much? - April 2008 Activity of the Month

Audience:

Grades K-4 | Grades 5-8

Keywords:

size | measurement | math | foraminifera
Impact Craters and the K/T Boundary

Audience:

Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12 | Undergraduate

Keywords:

meteorites | K/T boundary | impacts | cores | asteroids
Inquiry into High-Resolution Ice Core and Marine Sediment Records: Archives of Suborbital (Millennial) Oscillations in Climate

Audience:

Grades 9-12 | Undergraduate

Keywords:

climate change
Inquiry into Sediment Cores

Audience:

Undergraduate

Keywords:

marine sediments | inquiry | cores | composition
Insolation and Sediment

Audience:

Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Keywords:

upwelling | solar radiation | sediment | insolation | cores
Introduction to Physical Properties and Downhole Logging

Audience:

Undergraduate

Keywords:

physical properties | marine sediments | geochemistry | downhole logging
It's a Small World After All

Audience:

Grades K-4 | Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Keywords:

JOIDES Resolution | geography | flags | countries of the world
It's Not Just the Core that Tells the Story - Activity of the Month February, 2008

Audience:

Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Keywords:

technology | logging
It's Sedimentary, My Dear Watson

Audience:

Grades 5-8

Keywords:

sediments | microfossils | Google Earth | core samples
JOIDES Resolution Coloring Page

Audience:

Grades K-4

Keywords:

ships | scientific ocean drilling | JOIDES Resolution
Magnets at the Core - January 2008 Activity of the Month

Audience:

Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Keywords:

poles | magnetism | magnetic field
Measure for Measure

Audience:

Grades 5-8

Keywords:

scale measurement | ratios | proportions | JOIDES Resolution | fractions
Microfossils: the ocean's storytellers

Audience:

Grades K-4 | Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12 | Undergraduate

Keywords:

microfossils
Modeling Plate Tectonics - Activity of the Month June 2008

Audience:

Grades 5-8

Keywords:

seafloor spreading | plate tectonics | models
Mohawk Guy and his Band of Neogene Planktic Foraminifer Friends

Audience:

Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Keywords:

sediment cores | microfossils | forams | foraminifera | climate change
Nannofossils Reveal Seafloor Spreading Truth!

Audience:

Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Keywords:

sea-floor spreading | plate tectonics | Mid-Atlantic Ridge | microfossils
Plate Tectonics and Contributions from Scientific Ocean Drilling - Going Back to the Original Data

Audience:

Grades 9-12 | Undergraduate

Keywords:

sea-floor spreading | plate tectonics | Mid-Atlantic Ridge | Deep Sea Drilling Project
Science Picture Explorations

Audience:

Grades K-4

Keywords:

ocean | observation | JOIDES Resolution | drilling | core samples
Secrets of the Sediments - Using Marine Sediments to Study Climate Change

Audience:

Grades 9-12

Keywords:

sediment core | oxygen isotopes | microfossils | climate change
Sediment Deposition Supports Seafloor Spreading - Using Google Earth and Ocean Cores to Analyze Seafloor Spreading

Audience:

Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Keywords:

seafloor spreading | seafloor sediments | plate tectonics | Juan de Fuca Ridge | Google Earth | core samples
Sedimentation Rates on Shatsky Rise - December 2007 Activity of the Month

Audience:

Grades 5-8

Keywords:

sedimentation rates | plate tectonics | graphing | cores
Subduction Zone Conditions - Activity of the Month, September 2007

Audience:

Grades 9-12

Keywords:

plate tectonics | subduction zones | japan
The "Hole" Story About Ocean Cores

Audience:

Grades 9-12 | Undergraduate

Keywords:

core samples
The Race is On . . .with Sea Floor Spreading! - Activity of the Month, October 2007

Audience:

Grades 9-12

Keywords:

Seafloor spreading rates | paleomagnetism
What on Earth is a Core?

Audience:

Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12 | Undergraduate

Keywords:

sediment | rocks and minerals | drilling | core
What You See is What You Get

Audience:

Grades K-4 | Grades 5-8 | Grades 9-12

Keywords:

visual core description | rocks and minerals | core
Where in the World - Activity of the Month March 2008

Audience:

Grades K-4 | Grades 5-8

Keywords:

metadata | maps | longitude | latitude
Why Did They Drill There?

Audience:

Grades 9-12 | Undergraduate

Keywords:

scientific ocean drilling | grant proposals | Geologic Time | drill site
Window on Arctic Coring

Audience:

Undergraduate

Keywords:

coring | climate change | arctic

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