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Teacher Professional Development

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MMC facilitated Professional Development on-site workshops for middle and high school educators partner sites around the country as part of NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research education program. Groups of 25-30 teachers participated in each workshop. As part of the Learning Ocean Science Through Ocean Exploration curriculum, workshop content focused on ocean science topics such as marine biology, marine geology, bioluminescence, exploration, and seabed mapping, as well as the use of the NOAA Ocean Explorer web site.

Through a NOAA grant to the Ocean Technology Foundation, MMC led efforts to implement NOAA Ocean Exploration workshops in Portugal and the Azores.  Relationships between teachers and ocean researchers were catalyzed, and each of the four workshops contained classroom, lab, and field components.

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Sea Monsters Revealed – Educator’s Guides

Client:  Kre8360

sea monsters editedMystic 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.

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Historic Shipwrecks – Online Course

Clients:  U.S. Naval Academy and Ocean Technology Foundation

Midshipmen aboard the USNS Henson

Midshipmen aboard the USNS Henson

MMC developed and instructed the U.S. Naval Academy’s first and only online course, Historic Shipwrecks, which focuses largely on the methods, technologies, and policies involved in the Ocean Technology Foundation’s Search for the Bonhomme Richard. The course integrated science, history, technology and engineering into a multidisciplinary and interactive learning experience for midshipmen. Under the tutorship of MMC President Melissa Ryan, five midshipmen participated in the 2010 and 2011 expeditions to search for the Bonhomme Richard in the North Sea.