Education and Outreach

Science on a Sphere Module

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 Online video created for the Science on a Sphere; corals bleaching, what NOAA is doing to monitor and prevent coral bleaching, and what you can do to help.

Audience: elementary to high school, general public.

Online Tutorial

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 Web pages that explain how we predict coral bleaching from satellite temperature data, including hands-on exercises based on our website.

Audience: reef managers or high-school students.

Ocean Acidification Tutorial

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 Web pages that show the basic concepts of ocean acidification, its affects on coral reefs, and how it can be modeled from satellite data.

Audience: reef managers or high-school students.

Hands-On Oceanography Activity

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 Peer-reviewed activity "Using Satellite Sea Surface Temperatures to Predict Coral Bleaching". For undergraduate or graduate classes, from the journal Oceanography.

Free download from the journal's website

Bilko Training Lesson

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 Training module for Bilko, free UNESCO software for learning remote sensing, with step-by-step instructions for producing Coral Reef Watch products.

Audience: remote sensing students.

Remote Sensing and Coral Reefs Curriculum

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 Lesson plans focused on satellite technology, coral biology, and coral reef conservation. Fun, hands-on science activities engage students in learning.

Audience: 4th - 6th grade students.

Background Presentation

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 Presentation that can be used in the classroom, along with the data activity below. Topics include: coral bleaching, remote sensing, and thermal stress.

Click here to download (PowerPoint, 5MB)

Data Activity

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 Hands-on exercise based on the record-breaking 2005 coral bleaching event in the Caribbean region.

English: Exercise (PDF, 400KB) Answers (PDF, 25KB)
Español: Ejercico (PDF, 400KB) Respuestas (PDF, 29KB)

Reef Resilience and Climate Change Workshops

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 Resources from an international series of workshops on helping coral reefs adapt to climate change.

Audience: coral reef managers and scientists.

"Mark Trail" Comic Strip

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 2006 comic strip about climate change, coral bleaching, and the NOAA Coral Reef Watch satellite monitoring program.

This page hosts Coral Reef Watch's education products. We will continue adding to these offerings as often as we can. For all of NOAA's coral reef education and outreach activities, please visit the Coral Reef Conservation Program's education page.