OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE ECOLOGY

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Oceanography and Marine Ecology Coursebook Series

This is a three-volume marine science course designed for Grades 8-11. This workbook-based course was designed specifically for flexible use and can be used independently by students in a homeschool setting or teacher-led in a larger classroom setting. Each page of the student workbook is interactive with vocabulary prompts, comprehension questions, data analysis, graphing, and text annotations.

Vol 1: Ocean Processes

Learn how to interpret maps, graphs, satellite imagery, and real ocean data while exploring the physical processes that shape Earth's oceans. Discover how temperature, salinity, tides, waves, currents, and geology influence marine ecosystems around the world.

Scientific Skill Focus
Reading maps, graphs, satellite imagery, and real ocean data.

Topics Include

  • Ocean Zones

  • Temperature

  • Salinity

  • Buoyancy

  • Tides

  • Waves

  • Surface Currents

  • Seafloor Formation

  • Islands

  • Coastlines

Vol 2 : The Living Ocean Fall 2026

Using the oceanography concepts introduced in Volume 1, students investigate how marine organisms are connected to one another and to the environments they inhabit. Explore ecosystems, biogeography, food webs, symbiosis, biodiversity, adaptation, migration, invasive species, and the complex relationships that shape life throughout the world's oceans.

Scientific Skill Focus
Field investigations, ecological relationships, species identification, and ecological data analysis.

Featured Locations

  • The Great Barrier Reef

  • Alaskan kelp forests

  • Arctic Ocean sea ice communities and haul-outs

  • Monterey Canyon cold seeps and deep sea

  • Sandy beaches of the Bahamas

  • Mariana Trench

  • Indonesian mangrove islands

  • Tide pools around the world

  • Northwestern Hawaiian islands

  • Seagrass Meadows of Shark Bay, Australia

  • Hydrothermal Vents of the East Pacific Rise

Vol 3 : The Oceans and Us Spring 2027

Explore the many ways people depend on, study, and protect the ocean. Discover marine resources, fisheries, aquaculture, climate connections, conservation, restoration, marine technology, and the careers dedicated to understanding and managing our oceans.

Scientific Skill Focus
Applying scientific evidence to real-world problems through data interpretation, resource management, and career exploration.

Coming Spring 2027

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