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These activities are suitable for adults or informal audiences
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A Hurricane’s
Storm Surge Affects Our Estuaries 
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Students construct a coastal landmass from
sand and add features such as tidal creeks and barrier islands. They then add varying amounts of water
to see the effects of storm surge on coastal land masses. |
| Subject: Ocean Geology, Human Impact |
Grade: 5 - adult |
Duration: 20 - 60 min |
| Ocean Literacy Principle: #1, #3, #6, #7 |
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Beach Buckets
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Visitors explore a bucket of sand and beach drift and debris, sort the items using observable
characteristics and use a model to show how sand could be composed of items found on a beach.
They also infer how the beach drift might have traveled to the beach. |
| Subject: Ocean Physics, Ocean Geology |
Grade: K to adult |
Duration: 30 - 45 min |
| Ocean Literacy Principle: #1, #2 |
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Causes and Effects of Melting Ice
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This activity introduces the concept of density-driven currents (thermohaline circulation) and
how they are affected by climate change. Participants use colored ice cubes, water, and salt
to explore density as it relates to salinity, leading to an understanding of the impact of glacial
melt on sea level rise. |
| Subject: Ocean Physics |
Grade: 5 to adult |
Duration: 30 - 120 min |
| Ocean Literacy Principle: #1, #2, #6 |
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Litter Matching Game
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By matching descriptions to images, students identify marine debris items, leading to discussion
about the effects of marine debris and how it can be reduced. |
| Subject: Ocean Biology, Ocean Chemistry, Human Impact |
Grade: 5 - adult |
Duration: 20 - 30 min |
| Ocean Literacy Principle: #1, #6, #7 |
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Plankton Feeding
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This activity provides a hands-on experience with a scale model, a relatively high viscosity
(a property of a fluid), the interactions of an organism with its environment, and feeding behaviors. |
| Subject: Ocean Physics, Ocean Biology |
Grade: 4 - adult |
Duration: 30 min |
| Ocean Literacy Principle: #5, #7 |
