An essential component of NOAA Ocean Exploration’s mission is to enhance ocean science literacy and understanding of why it is important to explore our little-known ocean world. To help fulfill this mission, NOAA Ocean Exploration offers several professional learning opportunities for educators to dive deeper into ocean science and exploration topics.
Learn how to bring deep-sea topics alive in the classroom at one of our professional development workshops for educators (grades 6-12). Workshops introduce participants to ocean exploration tools and technologies, demonstrate a variety of hands-on lessons and student investigations designed to guide students’ sensemaking of deep-sea phenomena, and explore additional free, online ocean exploration education resources. Our professional development workshops are offered around the country in cooperation with our Education Alliance Partners. Learn more about our current workshops below:
Exploring the Deep Ocean with NOAA
Professional Development for Educators of Grades 6-12
Join our team and fellow educators at an Education Alliance Partner site nearest you for a full-day, in-person professional development workshop to learn about why and how we explore the deep sea. Together we will dive into hands-on lessons and activities, explore additional online resources to use in your classroom, and discuss implementation strategies to bring the excitement of ocean exploration into your classroom.
Deep Dives with Ocean Explorers are 90-minute, online professional learning events that are open to educators, students, and the general public to learn more about ocean exploration topics and careers.
May 2024
Join a team of experts this May for a Deep Dive into Maritime Heritage/Archaeology. Come learn more about the wonders of and the tools used for exploring maritime heritage sites including shipwrecks, paleo-landscapes, and the biological communities that thrive in such places! This program will include a live Q&A session with our experts, and a brief guided tour of free, online education materials.
This 90-minute live event will be offered twice in various time zones to engage educators, students, and the interested public across all U.S. time zones:
-
Tuesday, May 14, 5:30 pm PT / 4:30 pm AKT / 2:30 pm HT
(6:30 pm MT / 7:30 pm CT / 8:30 pm ET)
Register Here -
Thursday, May 16, 5:30 pm ET / 4:30 pm CT / 3:30 pm MT
(2:30 pm PT / 1:30 pm AKT / 11:30 am HT)
Register Here
Connect
Stay up-to-date on current professional development offerings, educational materials, upcoming events, and more:
Follow us on Facebook and join our network of ocean educators and explorers from around the world.
Contact us:
Have questions about Professional Development opportunities? Contact the NOAA Ocean Exploration Education Team at oceanexeducation@noaa.gov.