Education

Held at NOAA’s Seattle Sand Point facility each July, NOAA Science Camp offers hands-on science-learning opportunities for middle and high school students.

This is a four-week ocean science program in Savannah, Georgia that teaches K-12 students about the ocean through an interactive, hands-on curriculum.

NOAA’s Sun to Sea middle school science camp Juneau, Alaska provides students with the opportunity to explore atmospheric and marine science with field and laboratory activities focusing on how the ocean and weather are connected.

NEMO is an after-school program Washington, District of Columbia for inner city schools that provides marine science activities, field trips, and resources for teachers and students.

This program offers lessons on marine mammals and NOAA Fisheries science with hands-on activities, presentations, and projects for K-5 classrooms Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

SCUTES participants collaborate to learn about shortnose and Atlantic sturgeons along the east coast of the United States.

As part of Alaska Sea Week, a marine and wetland curriculum provides marine science interpretive programs for K-6 students in the Juneau School District in Juneau, Alaska.

Local and regional school groups visit NOAA Fisheries’ Milford Laboratory for a day of lab visits in Milford, Connecticut. The Milford Laboratory also collaborates with two regional aquaculture high schools on shellfish and fish aquaculture.

The Southeast Alaska Science Fair, held in Juneau, Alaska, provides high school students in Southeast Alaska the opportunity to compete for scholarships and awards while learning to apply the scientific method to research questions.

Ocean Discovery Institute in San Diego, California, uses ocean science to empower young people from under served urban communities to transform their lives, their community, and our world as scientific and conservation leaders.