NOAA Enrichment in Marine Sciences and Oceanography (NEMO) Curriculum

The NEMO Program has a curriculum with 23 lessons in marine science, biology, chemistry, geology, physics, technology, and marine policy that can be used to support a course or club or prepare a team for the National Ocean Sciences Bowl.

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Each lesson contains a PowerPoint presentation and a Teacher's Guide PDF file and is aligned with national science teaching standards as well as the Ocean Literacy Principles. In some cases, lessons contain other supplementary files that are referred to in the Teacher's Guide. Please note that there is a stand-alone Glossary file containing definitions of bold terms throughout the Teacher's Guides. All PDFs can be read with Adobe Acrobat or Preview (Mac OS). Some of the PowerPoint presentations have embedded video files. Your computer must have QuickTime or Windows Media Player to play these videos. If the videos do not start automatically when clicked in the slide show presentation, try opening the video files directly from the lesson folder. To request a hard copy of the curriculum, please contact Laura.Oremland@noaa.gov.

Nemo Unit #	Name	Summary	Supplementary (s) files
Glossary			Glossary (pdf)
1	Intro to NEMO	General information about the curriculum, careers and National Ocean Sciences Bowl	Lesson 1 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf), Extra Bowl Questions (powerpoint), Scholarship Info (pdf)
2	Ocean Exploration	Navigation; history of ocean science	Lesson 2 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf), Video (wmv)
3	Ocean Acidification	Ocean acidification	Lesson 3 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf)
4	Biogeochemical Cycle	Biogeochemical cycles, focus on carbon	Lesson 4 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf),
5	The Dead Zone	Plankton blooms; hypoxia; dead zone formation	Lesson 5 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf)
6	Ocean Layers I	Salinity and stratification	Lesson 6 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf)
7	Ocean Layers II	Temperature, salinity and density	Lesson 7 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf), Thermocline Activity (pdf)
8	Currents	Thermohaline circulation and wind-driven currents	Lesson 8 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf),
9	Waves	Shallow and deep water waves; tsunamis	Lesson 9 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf)
10	Tides	Tide causes and classifications	Lesson 10 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf)
11	El Niño	El Niño drivers and characteristics	Lesson 11 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf)
12	Technology I	Satellites and in situ sampling	Lesson 12 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf), Exploring Sat Images (pdf), Sat Questions, NOSB.Tech (pdf), Vent Activity (pdf), Vent Activity Graphs (pdf)
13	Plate Tectonics I	Earth layers and plates	Lesson 13 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf)
14	Plate Tectonics II	Plate motion	Lesson 14 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf), Student Activity (pdf), Answer Key (pdf)
15	Sediments	Sediment composition; types of ooze	Lesson 15 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf), Sediment Activity (pdf), Sediment Alt (pdf), Sediment Activity Answer Key (pdf)
16	Coastal Dynamics	Active/passive coasts; deltas; erosion	Lesson 16 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf), Shoreline Change Student (pdf), Shoreline Change Teacher (pdf)
17	Plankton	Plankton identification and types	Lesson 17 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf)
18	Invertebrates	Types of invertebrates; sampling techniques	Lesson 18 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf)
19	Vertebrates I	Fish classification; sustainable seafood	Lesson 19 (powerpoint), Teacher's Guide (pdf), FishWatch (pdf), Fisheries Gear (pdf)
20	Vertebrates II	Marine mammals	Lesson 20 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf), Video (wmv)
21	Marine Ecosystems	Ecosystem definition; marine ecosystem types; ecosystem-based management	Lesson 21 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf), Blue Crab Information Sheet (pdf)
22	Marine Policy	Legislative mandates as related to fisheries, pollution, climate, and the ocean in general	Lesson 22 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf)
23	Technology II	AUVs, ROVs	Lesson 23 (powerpoint), Teacher's guide (pdf), Video 1 (wmv), Video 2 (wmv), GPS Technology (pdf), GPS Worksheet (pdf), GPS Answer Key (pdf), ROV Activity (pdf), States Map (pdf))