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Navigation Resources

• It’s Happenin’ in Hampton Roads Harbor - Teacher’s Manual 2005
  • An Interdisciplinary Unit for Third Grade Students. This manual covers vocabulary, history, geography, mathematics, and ecology relating to our local harbors and includes several classroom activities.
    
    
• National Maritime Center's Navigation Game
  • A fun, interactive navigation game that reinforces the concepts of cardinal directions, latitude and longitude, geography, and teamwork.
    VA SOL's: K.5, 1.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.6, USI.1g, USI.4, USII.1g, WHI.10a, WHII.4, WG.1.
    
    
• "Navigating The Waters" Educational Resource CD View Screenshot
  • "Navigating the Waters" introduces you to the world of marine navigation. This CD covers navigational history from papyrus boats to the future of GPS. You'll find over 100 lesson plans, more than 600 external links, free software, an extensive image gallery, complete e-books, biographies of navigators and detailed accounts of navigational history.
    
    Book the Navigation Discovery Box for your classroom for a week and receive a free copy of the "Navigating The Waters" Educational CD.
    
    
• Navigation Discovery Box
  • The Navigation Discovery Box contains replications of antique navigation instruments, books, lesson plans, and activities to compliment your curriculum. All of this comes packed into a trunk that can be picked up at Nauticus or delivered to your school. Reservations for the Discovery Box are for one week, but can be extended depending on demand for the Discovery Box. To make your reservation and to inquire about pricing, please contact Nauticus Education at 664-1044.

Shark Resources

• Shark Distribution
  • Concepts: There are over 350 species of sharks found in the oceans today worldwide. Sharks come in many different sizes, shapes and colors. Some of these factors are dependent on their environment. Virginia Science SOL's: 1.7, 2.5, 2.7, 4.5, LS.9
    
    
• Shark/Human Interaction
  • Concepts: Sharks cause fatal injuries to about 12-25 humans per year. Humans kill about 100 million sharks per year. People kill sharks for meat, medicine, oil, skin, and fish food as well as for sport. Sharks have long gestation periods and give birth to small litters of pups. Over harvesting can cause a strong decline in the population. Virginia Science SOL's: 1.7, 2.5, 2.7, 4.5, LS.9
    
    
• Shark Coloration
  • Concepts: Many sharks are a grayish or brownish color when seen from above and a paler or whitish color underneath. Some sharks have spots, stripes or seemingly random coloration. Color schemes can help sharks blend in or camouflage with their environment. Virginia Science SOL's: K.4, 3.4, 4.5
    
    
• Shark Length
  • Concepts: Shark length can be estimated by measuring the enamel of their tooth. Shark teeth vary from one shark to another. Teeth are arranged in multiple rows along the border of the jaw. Virginia Science SOL's: 2.1 4.1, 4.5, 5.1, 6.1
    
    

Shark Resources - External Links

• Searchable Shark Distribution Database
  
  
• Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
  
  
• Shark Attacks - Facts and Stats
  
  
• International Shark Attack File
  
  
• Shark Coloration
  
  
• The Dedicated Shark Site
  
  
• NOVA Online - Shark Tidbits
  
  
• Australian Marine Conservation Society - Fact Sheets - Sharks and Rays
  
  

Weather Resources

• Weather Discovery Box
  • The Weather Discovery Box contains real weather instruments, books, lesson plans, and activities to compliment your curriculum. All of this comes packed into a trunk that can be picked up at Nauticus or delivered to your school. Reservations for the Discovery Box are for one week, but can be extended depending on demand for the Weather Discovery Box. To make your reservation and to inquire about pricing, please contact Nauticus Education at 664-1044.
    
    
• Make A Tornado in a Tube Activity
  • Concepts: vortex, tornado formation. Virginia Science SOL'S: 2.6, 4.6, 6.3, ES.13
    
    
• Earth-Sun Relationships Activity
  • Concepts: rotation. Virginia Science SOL'S: K.8, 1.6, 3.8, 6.6, 6.8, ES.3, ES.13
    
    
• Pressure Cups Activity
  • Concepts: air pressure. Virginia Science SOL'S: 6.6
    
    

Weather Resources - External Links

• Virginia Department Of Emergency Management
  
  
• Zeus' Web Teacher's Troposphere
  
  
• FEMA For Kids Homepage
  
  
• Discovery Channel - Extreme Weather: Tornado
  
  
• FirstGov For Kids
  
  
• Jetstream - An Online Weather School presented by NOAA
  
  
• WVEC.COM
  
  
• WAVY.COM - Weather
  
  

External Resources

• CIA Fact Book - Arctic Ocean
  
  
• CIA Fact Book - Atlantic Ocean
  
  
• CIA Fact Book - Indian Ocean
  
  
• CIA Fact Book - Pacific Ocean
  
  
• CIA Fact Book - Southern Ocean