MarineQuest
Ocean education and marine environmental education programs providing "hands-on, feet-wet, high-tech" experiences for K-12 students.
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- Race Rocks Virtually visit the Strait of Juan de Fuca between Washington state and Vancouver, Canada by viewing video, both real-time and archived. Race Rocks is Canada's first Marine Protected Area established under the Oceans Act.
- OceanLink This website is dedicated to ocean education. Throughout these pages, students will find all kinds of interesting information about things like: the biggest sea animals, marine biology careers, answers to common ocean/animal questions, and more!
- Oceans for Life A portal for educators to find all ocean related products and resources produced by the National Geographic.
- Lesson plan: Marine sanctuaries Students learn about the national marine sanctuaries found in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and off the coast of American Samoa.
- Lesson plan: Taking care of our oceans Students consider why so many people live near the coast and learn about the impacts of this trend on ocean animals.
Related pages
- Sea Grant North Carolina: With a variety of research and outreach programs, this organization provides several educational opportunities for marine science educators including workshops, marine science and environmental education curriculum development, research opportunities and grants, and field trips.
- Fort Fisher State Recreation Area: The Fort Fisher program introduces students to the habitat and life history of "colonial-nesting coastal birds." The program also focuses on endangered, threatened and special-concern bird species.
- Masonboro Island: One of the four sites of the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve. Interpreter led field trips must be reserved two seasons ahead. This is a favorite field trip for many teachers.
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- Learn more about New Hanover County, North Carolina, adaptations, aquariums, barrier islands, biology and life science, eco-explorers, environmental science, genetics, marine life cycles, marine science, maritime forests, ocean plants, oceanography, rocky intertidal, science, turtles, and water quality.
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For the past 25 years, UNC-Wilmington has provided ocean education and marine environmental education programs for school groups, all of which are correlated to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. The Marine Explorers and Coastal Encounters programs are designed for teachers to bring their students to the UNCW Center for Marine Science (CMS). Programs are tailored to the age of the students. These include salt marsh expeditions, boat trips on the research vessel The Cape Fear, beach studies, lectures and hands-on lab work.
"MarineQuest also has Coast to Classroom programs which are designed to bring a taste of the NC coast to school classrooms. MarineQuest instructors bring a selection of local animals, give a short presentation about the areas in which they are found and their adaptations, and field questions about the ocean from students."
MarineQuest is located at the UNCW Center for Marine Science, 5600 Marvin Moss Lane, in Wilmington, North Carolina. For more information, contact MarineQuest at 910-962-2386 or marinequest@uncw.edu.
