Olympic Peninsula Teacher Websites
By Lisa Eschenbach, Pacific Education Institute
Thanks to funding from the Puget Sound Partnership &
Russell Family Foundation
Aug, 2012
Olympic Education Service District 114
http://164.116.5.2/community/
OESD educators now have a place where they can come to get the most current
information about professional development and other opportunities. And, to connect
with each other in discussions about professional practice. Spend some time exploring
this site, and let us know what you think!
Feiro Marine Life Center
http://feiromarinelifecenter.org/
The Feiro Marine Life Center (FMLC) is an educational and scientific organization promoting
marine education and conservation and is located on the City Pier in Port Angeles. The FMLC is
fondly known in the community as “the jewel of the waterfront”. It hosts public exhibits
representative of the marine life inhabiting the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The FMLC provides
classroom space for marine science related programs, and it has a small laboratory for studies.
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Students apply their academic skills to studying the environment and a sustainable future.
Through science and social science inquiry, investigations, students are making real
contributions to their communities. Go to resources for the Field Investigation Guide, &
Project Based Learning model. Plus, you can follow us on twitter and facebook.
www.pacificeducationinstitute.org
Olympic Peninsula Resources
National Buoy Data & NANOOS
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/maps/Northwest.shtml
Regularly updated sea temperature, current and wind information. Great data-sets.
NANOOS
http://www.nanoos.org Go to Data Explorer and NVS, then select “View all assets”
Clallam County StreamKeepers
Volunteers monitor streams throughout Clallam County. Chcck with StreamKeepers about
mentors, resources and restoration work.
http://www.clallam.net/SK/
Dungeness River Center
This beautiful Center on the west side of Sequim offers a number of in-class educational
programs for your students.
http://www.dungenessrivercenter.org/SchoolPrograms.html
E3 Washington
www.e3washington.org
E3 Washington coordinates environment and sustainability resources for teachers, access to
community resources. Students can post their projects online.
Facing the Future
Middle School Curriculum: http://bit.ly/lEnavm
High School Curriculum: http://bit.ly/oHfVxi
Water, Science, and Civics: Engaging Students with Puget Sound, is a series of five lessons
available in PDF and SMART Board format. This engaging unit leads your students through an
exploration of the significance of Puget Sound and the impact humans have on this valuable
resource. Students creatively use technology throughout the unit and the culminating lesson is an
action project and contest in which students create a digital public service announcement to
educate others about the significance of the Sound and ways to address pollution.
Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
http://www.nwifc.org
Find fisheries and tribal natural resources information. I have found this site really useful,
especially with tribal students. It has great data sets for students to analyze.
Washington NatureMapping
http://naturemappingfoundation.org/natmap/
NatureMapping provides protocols for citizens and students to collect data on wildlife species,
streams, and beaches. Field guides and data sheets make things easy for teachers and students.
NatureMapping Nearshore Resources: http://naturemappingfoundation.org/natmap/marine/
Pacific Marine Environmental Lab
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/
PMEL has great resources to explain and explore ocean acidification and ocean chemistry. What
do shellfish need for healthy water? Easy to read charts and pictures.
Puget Sound Partnership
http://www.psp.wa.gov/
Send your students here to research our Puget Sound. You’ll find videos, pictures, research and
background information on the Sound.
NatureBridge in Olympic National Park
http://www.naturebridge.org/olympic-national-park
Ancient forests, alpine terrain, coastal marine habitats, and the largest river restoration in U.S.
history make Olympic National Park a quintessential living laboratory. NatureBridge offers
school & group Field Science as well as professional development for teachers.
Salish Seas Expedition
http://salish.org/
Salish Seas offers 3-day class trips. Some scholarship money is available. They are also planning
student leadership programs for this coming spring for outstanding students. Salish Seas is also
very generous in offering teacher sails. Check their website for opportunities.
Washington Audubon
http://bit.ly/qLU24F
The Puget Sound Seabird Survey (PSSS) collects long-term baseline shore-based density
estimates for seabirds in central and south Puget Sound.
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Washington Sea Grant http://www.wsg.washington.edu
Find local research, educational resources and ocean policy information. Sea Grant’s is affiliated
with NOAA & the University of Washington.
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife http://wdfw.wa.gov/
The source of salmon curriculum, the WDFW site provides free online viewing of Wild Watch
Cams, plus an Image Gallery. Students can practice observations & data collection with the cams.
Ocean Literacy Sites
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
www.noaa.gov
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has resources for ocean and weather
related science and education. These pages are organized according to the different departments
rather than having all the oceanography or coastal information in one site. So prepare to search.
On the other hand, this is a great place to send students for reliable information.
NOAA Education
http://www.education.noaa.gov/ The NOAA education site.
NOAA Ocean Services
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/resources.html 6-12 grade tutorials on ocean processes
are interesting and fairly in depth.
National Marine Sanctuary Program
http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov Compare the Olympic Coast Sanctuary to other Sanctuaries.
Marine Debris
http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/ This site has resources on marine debris throughout the U.S.
The Bridge
http://web.vims.edu/bridge
This site brings the resources of NOAA, SeaGrant, National Aquatic Marine Educators and the
Virginia Institute of Marine Science. It offers great background and tangible lessons on
everything from plankton to deep-sea hydrothermal vents. This is a really deep site with a lot of
materials. Lessons are tested and reviewed by teachers.
Start with: The Bridge Home/ Lesson Plans/ data series archives/ search for your topic.
http://www.oceanmotion.org/index.htm
Census of the Oceans http://www.coml.org/
This bold initiative has worked with partners around the world to collect information on marine
biodiversity over the past ten years.
National Geographic Ocean Maps
http://natgeomaps.com/conservation
See the contours of the ocean floor. Compare the Puget Sound compare with the WA Coast?
Ocean Conservancy
http://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/PageServer?pagename=program_marinedebris_ICC
Beach Clean ups of marine plastics are coordinated by the Ocean Conservancy around the
country. OC has data sheets that they use to collect data on marine plastics.
Google Earth http://www.google.com/earth/index.html
3-D maps and images of our planet. Your students can ask and answer a lot of questions with
Google Earth maps.
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