Play on! This site holds over two dozen games put together from by variety of sources including US Fish and Wildlife, National Geographic, PBS, and NOAA. Each of the games holds an educational component emphasizing the importance of science and the natural environment. Venture up to Kure Atoll and help clean up the beaches for the monk seal and green sea turtle populations, or accompany Jack Cousteau as your team tries to capture video clips of gray whale behaviors.
This flash-based application allows users to explore concepts and their relationships through a variety of assets - videos, images, news articles, and teaching resources - within a profile that gives breadth and depth to the learning experience. The Ocean Climate Interactive, when used in conjuction with our Concept Map Builder, constitutes part of the COSEE-OS suite of ocean-climate multimedia known as the Concept Linked Integrated Media Builder.
In 2007, a group of participants at COSEE NOW (including scientists, classroom educators and designers) collaborated on an interactive module to highlight the 7 essential principles of the Ocean Literacy Initiative. This interactive represents the public beta of this new Ocean Literacy Interactive.
This resource explores Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the largest structure on Earth built by living organisms. It demonstrates the types of relationships among living things that have contributed to this incredible biodiversity and elaborates on some of the adaptations that have enabled species to survive and reproduce in this unique habitat.
