Working in groups, students will design a small-scale oyster farm and use NOAA's online calculator to predict how much nitrogen their operation will remove from the surrounding water over a growing season. Resource type: website, reference.

Students work in groups to track the movement of invasive Oriental grass shrimp (Palaemon macrodactylus) over time using the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) database. Students will then use collection data to graph records by year and answer a series of questions.

In this exercise, students will use both both forecasting tools and buoy data to determine the temperature and salinity ranges most likely to result in a bloom of nettles in the Bay. Resource type: website, reference.

In this activity, students compare harvest numbers from wild oysters beds to planted oyster beds and try to determine what environmental factors may affect the program's overall success. Resource type: website, reference.

In this activity, students will graph population counts from two breeding grounds and answer some questions about the past, present, and future of whale populations. Resource type: website, reference.

Volunteers with the Florida Microplastics Awareness Project - a citizen science program run by Florida Sea Grant - sampled water at several sites and then filtered those samples to determine what microplastics they contained. In this activity, we'll analyze their data to see what they discovered.

Using whale count data from the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, compare whale counts in relation to environmental factors.

Calculate the amount of fish a person can eat per month in order to stay within acceptable limits of the EPA's mercury guidlines.

Using data from the International Coastal Cleanup, identify sources of marine debris and impacts of this debris on wildlife.

Using Mauna Loa and greenhouse gas data, evaluate trends over the past 50 years as well as seasonal variations in sea level.

Even when crab pots are lost or abandoned at sea, they continue to catch animals. Students will explore catch data collected by the watermen from the ghost pots. Resource type: website, reference.

Veined rapa whelks (Rapana venosa) are predatory marine snails that have been introduced into the Chesapeake Bay, USA. In this activity, students will determine the risk of a rapa invasion in four hypothetical estuaries. Resource type: website, reference.