REVIEW
This National Ocean Service site offers teachers a wealth of resources about oceans, coasts, and charting and navigation. There are three main categories of materials: Kits, Stories, and Classroom. The Kits describe the scientific principles underlying the applied science and activities of NOAAs National Ocean Service (NOS). Each kit includes: a tutorial, including photographs, videos, illustrations and interactive graphics; a roadmap to resources via a collection of comprehensively annotated links; and lesson plans that contain background information and resource material and are correlated to National Science Education Standards. The kits cover such topics as corals, currents, estuaries, geodesy, nonpoint source pollution, and tides and water levels. The stories are case studies drawn from the research of NOS and provide students an opportunity for inquiry based learning. They include student and teacher guides, interactive quizzes, exercises with real data and interviews with NOS scientists. In the classroom, teachers will find a collection of standards based lesson plans based on the major thematic areas of the National Ocean Service (NOS). Each lesson includes focus questions, objectives, background information, evaluations, and extensions.

• Science: Earth Science
• Teachers: Methods & Strategies