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.

These gentle giants can grow to be the size of a school bus! So why don't we know more about where they go? In this activity, students examine data visualizations created using 16 years of sighting and tracking information to determine when and why whale sharks migrate.

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.

It was once believed that the oceans provided an endless bounty of seafood, but with an increasing world population and more efficient fishering gear it's become apparent that that is not the case. Resource type: website, reference.

Seafood, and oysters in particular, are a holiday tradition for many. Analyze vibrio bacteria data from the Centers for Disease Control to identify trends in outbreaks. Resource type: website, reference.

Analyze Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study data to observe chemical, physical, and biological properties of the ocean at work.

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.