WEBVTT 00:00:02.669 --> 00:00:07.500 The ocean, overall, is just exciting! For some students, they've never seen the ocean. 00:00:07.500 --> 00:00:14.280 As soon as you show them footage and pictures and videos of things they can barely even imagine, 00:00:14.280 --> 00:00:19.260 it gets them excited about science. I love deep-ocean science because 00:00:19.260 --> 00:00:24.540 it exists at the intersections of STEM. The deep ocean has lessons about physics, 00:00:24.540 --> 00:00:30.180 lessons about biology, ecology. They actually see that there is 00:00:30.180 --> 00:00:34.980 new discoveries happening all the time, which makes them then want to be part of the process. 00:00:34.980 --> 00:00:40.260 It makes them want to be the ones who ask the questions and try to solve the problems. 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:47.520 Using different resources and different platforms that connect us to these far off places, 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:52.380 it makes things real for students, and I think that's pretty powerful. 00:00:52.380 --> 00:00:57.900 NOAA Ocean Exploration has been around for 20 years, and ever since the beginning our 00:00:57.900 --> 00:01:02.100 role has been able to connect people, the general public, anybody, educators, 00:01:02.100 --> 00:01:07.800 to the deep ocean. We do that using deep-sea robots, high-tech mapping systems, and a 00:01:07.800 --> 00:01:13.080 telepresence system that beams images of the deep ocean right through the internet to classrooms. 00:01:13.080 --> 00:01:18.780 Schmidt Ocean Institute is an organization that works to boldly explore our unknown 00:01:18.780 --> 00:01:25.140 ocean by providing the research vessel Falkor (too) free of cost to scientists. 00:01:25.740 --> 00:01:30.780 Ocean Exploration Trust is a non-profit organization that owns and operates exploration 00:01:30.780 --> 00:01:36.300 vessel Nautilus and we broadcast 24 hours a day, so anyone interested in the ocean can be there, 00:01:36.300 --> 00:01:40.260 experience the excitement of discovery and learn about this incredible planet. 00:01:41.100 --> 00:01:45.480 All three ocean exploration organizations provide fantastic content to teachers and 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:49.500 students across this country. Those are great independently, but they're even better when 00:01:49.500 --> 00:01:54.300 we can pull those together from all three and fulfill a whole ocean curriculum essentially. 00:01:54.300 --> 00:01:59.280 The Deep Ocean Education Project was created through a partnership between NOAA 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:04.020 Ocean Exploration, the Ocean Exploration Trust, and the Schmidt Ocean Institute. 00:02:04.020 --> 00:02:09.420 And it started with some seed money from NOAA's Office of Education as well as a partnership 00:02:09.420 --> 00:02:14.160 with the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. We've been working with NOAA Ocean Exploration 00:02:14.160 --> 00:02:19.860 for more than 20 years on developing education products, so helping put the pieces together, 00:02:19.860 --> 00:02:25.200 from staffing to development, hosting and maintenance, for the Deep Ocean Education 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:30.300 Project website was a very natural fit for us and we are happy to foster that program. 00:02:33.180 --> 00:02:38.100 Educators can access the Deep Ocean Education Project website for a free 00:02:38.100 --> 00:02:43.080 account and from there they can cultivate lesson plans that best fit their curriculum 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:47.880 and be able to share that with other educators. So one of the primary features is a resource hub, 00:02:47.880 --> 00:02:53.340 so that includes things like lessons, fact sheets, background information, and a lot of 00:02:53.340 --> 00:03:00.000 high-quality multimedia on deep-ocean topics. You can sort and search by content area, 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:05.700 or by the type of information that you're looking for, or the type of activity that you want. 00:03:05.700 --> 00:03:11.040 As I sort through the website and look at things, I can save them where I want them to be. 00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:15.780 One of my favorite parts of the website is the vessels page, where you can track all 00:03:15.780 --> 00:03:20.940 three of our organization's ships, whether that is Falkor (too), Okeanos Explorer, 00:03:20.940 --> 00:03:25.680 or exploration vessel Nautilus and see where these ships are in the world and jump right in 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:30.000 to be part of making discoveries live. And then the last really exciting 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.760 feature is an educator opportunity page which features our professional development events, 00:03:36.600 --> 00:03:40.380 webinars, and internship opportunities for both students and teachers. 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:45.540 So I was there from the very start. I was one of the teachers that they consulted with. From the 00:03:45.540 --> 00:03:51.300 get-go I knew that this was going to be something that I wanted to engage in as an educator. 00:03:51.300 --> 00:03:55.500 If you teach something already about the ocean, if you touch on the deep ocean, 00:03:56.220 --> 00:04:01.500 there's no better resource out there than this. But if you don't teach about the ocean typically, 00:04:01.500 --> 00:04:07.440 this could be applied in anything, whether they are creative and imaginative, if they're 00:04:07.440 --> 00:04:11.400 interested in design, if they're interested in science, if they're interested in art, there 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:16.020 are so many links that come back to the ocean. How many people get to go to the very bottom 00:04:16.020 --> 00:04:20.520 of the ocean? What this program is doing is making something that was very, very, 00:04:20.520 --> 00:04:27.300 very challenging for people to embrace and learn about, open and accessible to so many more people. 00:04:28.380 --> 00:04:34.860 We're always looking for more educators to get involved, check out these resources, give us 00:04:34.860 --> 00:04:39.540 feedback, let us know how we as organizations can continue to help you in your teaching settings. 00:04:39.540 --> 00:04:46.020 My hope is that this project can continue to provide resources as 00:04:46.020 --> 00:04:51.600 we discover new things, as we learn new things. NOAA Ocean Exploration continues to explore the 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:57.600 deep ocean with the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer. We finally launched our new research vessel 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:03.060 Falkor (too) and are on expedition now. At Ocean Exploration Trust, we're building 00:05:03.060 --> 00:05:07.980 into a longer and bigger expedition season. There's new species there's new things to be 00:05:07.980 --> 00:05:13.080 found and revealed by mapping. We never know what will come next but that's the fun of exploration.