Oregon Coast STEM Hub
Here are lesson plans and resources for learners developed by the state’s leading marine educators. The Oregon Coast STEM Hub is centered at OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport and serves the entire Oregon coast region.
http://oregoncoaststem.oregonstate.edu/about-us/stem-hub
Marine Debris STEAMSS
Want to go deeper into marine debris? Here are hands-on activities for learners in grades 4 through 12, harnessing the power of STEAMSS: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math, and Social Studies.
http://oregoncoaststem.oregonstate.edu/marine-debris-steamss
Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
Part of the Marine Activities, Resources, and Education (MARE) program and National Science Foundation’s Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education
https://oimb.uoregon.edu/k-6/curricula/open-ocean-fifth-grade/
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration education resources
http://www.noaa.gov/education/education-resource-collections
This is an amazing government science agency with a ton of education resources available online, organized by themes and common teaching topics.
NOAA Ocean Explorer education materials
Follow scientists into the field! Ocean Explorer provides direct access to lesson plans developed by scientists and educators during Ocean Explorer field seasons. These lessons are geared toward students in Grades 5-12. Presented here as Web-based education materials, each lesson plan corresponds with a specific ocean exploration and can be supplemented with daily logs prepared by scientists and educators during each mission at sea.
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/lessonplans/lessonplans.html
NOAA Marine Debris Tracker app
https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/partnerships/marine-debris-tracker
The Marine Debris Tracker mobile application allows you to make a difference by checking in when you find trash on our coastlines and waterways. Anyone picking up marine litter can easily track and log items from a list of common debris items found on the shoreline or in the water.
NOAA videos
https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/discover-issue/trash-talk
TRASH TALK is a 15-minute special feature on marine debris, produced for World Ocean Day. Several more short videos introduce the problem of marine debris to middle and high-school students.
NOAA games
This arcade offers games and interactive activities focused on ocean themes and environmental stewardship.
https://games.noaa.gov/about.html
The Incredible Carbon Journey game
Trash Smash
https://games.noaa.gov/trash_smash/
Water Life: Where Rivers Meet the Sea
https://games.noaa.gov/oscar/foreducators.html
Ocean Challenge puzzle
https://www8.nos.noaa.gov/oequizx/
Understanding Marine Debris (activity book for younger kids)
https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/publications-files/MDP_ActivityBook.pdf