Cuba’s Twilight Zone Reefs and Their Regional Connectivity

Expedition Education Module

Expedition Education Modules are designed to share the excitement of daily at-sea discoveries and the science behind NOAA’s major ocean exploration initiatives with educators, students, and the public around the world.

The Cuba’s Twilight Zone Reefs and Their Regional Connectivity Expedition offers a unique opportunity for explorers of all ages to investigate mesophotic coral habitats. You might choose to learn more about why NOAA and its partners are exploring this particular deep-ocean area, what advanced technologies are being used, and what explorers are hoping to find. You might also be looking to learn more about the explorers themselves so your students more fully understand what skills and expertise are required to support careers in ocean exploration. You just might need a short video or images to complete your lesson unit on a particular topic. Whatever your NOAA deep-ocean exploration education needs are, we hope that you will find them all met here in the Expedition Education Module.

Why Explore the Twilight Zone Reefs of Cuba?

Expedition Purpose

Why Explore the Twilight Zone Reefs of Cuba?

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 Classroom Lessons

Lessons and other tools that help bring expedition science into your classroom.

 Multimedia Content Themes

These Education Theme Pages are designed to provide the best of what the Ocean Explorer website has to offer to support your classroom during this expedition. Each Theme page provides links to content essays, lessons, multimedia interactive activities, career information, and associated past expeditions.

 Related Expeditions

The following expeditions cover topics similar to those of interest on the current expedition. The 2015 and 2016 expedition web pages have an education component with associated lessons and other resources that you might find useful to classroom teaching and learning.

 Who Is Exploring?

Meet the Science Team and learn more about ocean exploration careers.

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 Ocean Today Videos

Ocean Today is an exciting, multimedia kiosk in public aquariums that features videos on all aspects of the ocean realm — exploration and discoveries, marine life, and science. Find out more at http://oceantoday.noaa.gov.

Here we feature Ocean Today videos that support teaching and learning related to the current ocean expedition.