The 2016 and 2019 spring editions of The Earth Scientist, a peer reviewed science education journal published by The National Earth Science Teachers Association, featured articles written by NOAA Planet Stewards educators about their completed projects. Included are stories, innovations, and resources that you may find useful in your own education setting. The articles include links to background information, supporting materials, and student worksheets available you can download and adapt. They reflect the enthusiasm, hard work and success of educators, their students, and communities. 

NOAA Ocean Service podcast - learn how a NOAA Research Ecologist turns the data from underwater dives into usable summaries that help scientists study and protect U.S. coral reef ecosystems. Find the podcast here: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/podcast/aug20/nop38-diving-corals.html

Join the Ocean Today Every Full Moon Watch Party Team to learn about the science of marine debris and what you can do about it featuring the Emmy Award-winning TRASH TALK collection. Join  marine science educator and Ocean Today host, Symone Barkley, as she explores the challenges and successes of keeping our rivers, bays and ocean free of marine debris. The latest Sept. 2nd video can be found here. Also, collect trash in your community and recording it in the Marine Debris Tracker APP!

Florida Sea Grant will showcase community projects from two Gulf Coast cities, Sarasota and Apalachicola, in the most recent Resilient Communities Webinar Series. Jeff Vredenburg of the City of Sarasota will present “Developing Unified Climate Change Education for the Sarasota-Manatee Region.” Cindy Clark, of the City of Apalachicola, will share “Achieving Resilience through Hazard Mitigation: Applying Mitigation Measures to Apalachicola's Vulnerable Historic and Economically Significant Resources.”

Download the Flyer Here.    Register. 

Teachers, bring the unprecedented science and adventure of the ongoing MOSAiC expedition, one of the most extensive Arctic research expeditions ever conducted, into your virtual classrooms with new resources (e.g., virtual tours, tracking apps, ArcGIS Storymaps) from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) - University of Colorado. Then join them every Wednesday (3:30 - 4:00 pm MT) during the month of September for short (30 minute) webinars to learn more about  MOSAiC virtual educational resources and how you can integrate them into your teaching. Click on a webinar link to register:

• (9/9, 3:30-4:00 pm MT): Experience MOSAiC in virtual reality
• (9/16, 3:30-4:00 pm MT): Teaching with MOSAiC Media (videos, images and more!)
• (9/23, 3:30-4:00 pm MT): Exploring the New and Old Arctic” curriculum (MS/HS unit)
• (9/30, 3:30-4:00 pm MT): “Arctic Feedbacks” curriculum (MS/HS unit)

Join this 90 minute virtual panel with leaders in the marine technology field as they discussing technology trends and challenges including: unmanned systems, maritime cyber security, oceanographic platforms and sensors, and more.

Climate Interactive  will be holding two webinars to demonstrate the newest features of their En-ROADS simulation and modeling tools – watch this video to see the highlights. Webinars are scheduled for:

September 10, at 11am EDT  Climate Interactive's Co-Director Andrew Jones will cover new graphs, assumption sliders, and functionality of the software and discuss how these features can inform conversations about health, equity, and environmental justice. Register here.

September 17, at 3pm ET a session will occur covering the En-ROADS Climate Workshop in Spanish. Regístrate para el En-ROADS Climate Workshop

As we experience an immense global transition away from fossil fuels, join the Wisconsin Energy Institute and the UW–Madison Archives in a 45-minute workshop that will introduce you and your class to oral history and equip your students to go out and record their own Energy Transitions Oral Histories for a special collection at the UW–Archives. This event is open to all teachers, classes, and anybody interested in learning more about the Energy Transitions Oral Histories project. Find more about the project here. and Register for the event.

This course will provide participants with information about drivers, impacts, and solutions of climate change, and introduce strategies for talking about climate change in informal education environments. This is for educators and volunteers at learning venues, like museums, aquariums, zoos, libraries, science centers, etc. This is a free, self-paced course, that should take participants between 1-3 hours to complete. To learn more and to register please visit here.

Three debates between the presidential candidates and one between the vice presidential candidates are scheduled before Americans vote for the next U.S. President on November 3. Yale Climate Communications published a recent article that reminds journalists, moderators, and the public that have an important opportunity to ask important environmental questions that we care about. Find the article here.

September 1 to October 10

Share your ocean inspiration through a character creation of your own! The Waikiki Aquarium's Halloween Ocean Art Expo is free and open to students K-12. Draw your own Ocean Superhero, Super Villain, or Ocean Legend and submit your art here.

For more information, visit here. 

The Allen Coral Atlas announces its largest map release yet; we have completed regional maps in Northern Caribbean & Bahamas, Eastern Africa & Madagascar, Hawaiian Islands, and the Western Indian Ocean, as well as a new update for South West Pacific. This brings us to over 247,000 km2 mapped, and counting! Also, a brand new download feature allows registered users to download Atlas data for use on other platforms, increasing the accessibility of this tool.

Teachers and older students should check out the Climate Is Health series from Harvard:

Session 1 – Basics of Climate and Health and How They Are Connected
Session 2 – The Connection Between Climate and COVID-19
Session 3 – How Climate Change Impacts You, Your Health, and Your Community
Session 4 – Climate Change, Inequitable Impacts, & Resilience
Session 5 – Personal and Community Climate Actions and Becoming a Climate Activist

Visualize data through Earthtime, which combines geospatial and econometric data with predictive modelling to provide the big picture on important issues. Examine major environmental, social and political phenomena across time, space and between each other. Look ahead to see how rising sea levels could devastate low-lying regions and view the paths taken by international migrants over time.

The NSTA Daily Do is an open educational resource (OER) used by educators and families to provide students distance and home science learning. Check out recent NSTA Daily Dos.

OET is the team behind the live streaming deep-sea exploration of NautilusLive.org  and hosts an entire suite of resources for your needs now. Lessons connect classroom concepts with real-world applications in at-sea expeditions and the STEM careers of the teams who make these expeditions possible. OET is also hosting 20+ live online events connecting learners with career role models, new ocean technology previews, and topic experts live including Q&A. Events are free and streamed to Facebook and Youtube as well as recorded to be available asynchronously. New events are being added each week - https://nautiluslive.org/education/events