Ocean Planet
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 6–12
- Subjects
- science (environmental science, oceanography)
- Provider
- Smithsonian and NASA
- Special requirements
- MPEG movies are available for download and require a viewer such as QuickTime.
Legal
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Ocean Planet premiered at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History from April 1995 to April 1996, where it attracted nearly two million visitors. This electronic online companion exhibition contains all of the text and most of the panel designs and images found in the traveling exhibition. The exhibit encourages visitors to consider all of the ways in which humans are dependent on the oceans. The site also includes numerous lesson plans based on the exhibit.
Students can read about people who are striving to save the oceans in the Hero's section of the site. Oceans in Peril covers marine pollution, habitat destruction, fishing issues, and global changes. Sea Peoples discusses how oceans shape the lives of seafarers and shore dwellers.
