instructional design Archives - Mystic Maritime Consulting

Client: Kre8360

Mystic Maritime Consulting created content for two Educators’ Guides to be used in conjunction with the Sea Monsters Revealed exhibit. This fascinating exhibit is similar to the well-known Bodies Exhibit, but uses plastination techniques to give viewers a close-up look at the inside of sea creatures. It also highlights ocean exploration and the technologies used in exploring Earth’s final frontier. This traveling exhibit spends several months at a time in the nation’s top aquariums. The Educator’s Guides are geared toward grades 4-8 and 9-12. They contain classroom-ready, hands-on lessons focusing on ocean exploration, bioluminescence, adaptations of deep sea fishes, and underwater robots.

What can we learn from a squid about our own nervous system?

How can substances found in marine sponges help to treat cancer?

MMC creates curricula and teaches online courses on Oceans and Human Health (OHH). These courses have been offered as professional development for teachers through the College of Exploration, and to undergraduate students at Goodwin College in Connecticut. The materials serve as a general introduction to a cutting-edge topic in ocean science: the relationship between oceans and human health. Global climate change, harmful algal blooms, marine biopharmaceuticals, and the use of marine organisms as biomedical models are some of the topics presented. Federal policies and organizations focusing on OHH are also explored. Potentially polluting shipwrecks and underwater munitions dumps may also impact human health.