Teacher's Guide: During the Mission

How to Participate

• Overview
• Webcast schedule
• About Aquarius
• Technical requirements

Teacher's Guide

• Overview
• Student field guide
• Before the mission
• During the mission
• After the mission

More science under the sea

• Marine science on the web

Science Under the Sea is produced by a consortium of organizations including the University of North Carolina and EarthEcho International. Credits

Watching the video

Whether you watch the video live or later, you can use these activities to keep students focused on what they're watching and

1. If you're watching archived video, stop periodically to reinforce terms or themes.
2. Have students use the Map of the Aquarius Habitat in the Field Guide to locate the aquanauts.
3. Have students record what they see in the Organisms and Habitat Field Notes in the Field Guide.

We have also prepared teacher background notes and student field guides for each webcast:

1. Home Under the Sea: Background for teachers (PDF) | Student viewing guide (PDF)
2. Reef Real Estate: Background for teachers (PDF) | Student viewing guide (PDF)
3. Pump It Up: Background for teachers (PDF) | Student viewing guide (PDF)
4. Eat Your Vegetables: Background for teachers (PDF) | Student viewing guide (PDF)

Planning the Aquarius Mission

This activity could be done during any down time during the live video or at a natural break in the archived video. Print and cut out the Aquarius Planning Steps on cardstock. (Keep one copy in tact as an answer key.) Make enough copies for students to work in groups of four. Students groups should attempt to descramble steps scientists took to plan the Aquarius mission. This activity makes for a great discussion afterwards. What did students discover about scientific research and planning? What surprised them? What step did they think was left out? Would they have planned differently?

Materials

• Aquarius Planning Steps (PDF)