Engaging students in the ideas behind the types of coral reefs, their zonation, and the processes that make them so special can be challenging. The Building a Coral-Reef activity is a great way to ensure students learn the concepts needed and remember the processes that are acting on coral reefs. And it doesn’t hurt that …
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“What is an estuary?” I make a point of asking my students this every year in mid-September and typically get a room full of blank stares and some really weird answers. I’ve gotten “where the sewage water is” to “deep, deep, deep, deep sea” and everything in between, but mostly just lots of blank stares. …
The smell of urea is always a weird one. But my lab girls were into it. The poor conference room looked like a massacre but hey, it was all in the name of science! This wasn’t a wholly unusual day at the Oceanography Camp for Girls (OCG), but it was definitely a memorable one. OCG …