Below are links to some of the most useful educational websites and literature focusing on marine and environmental issues. If you have suggestions for websites or resources for us to include, please let us know! Thank you!

Beyond Ecophobia
Article explores what really happens when we lay the weight of the world’s environmental problems on eight and nine year-olds already haunted with too many concerns and not enough real contact with nature. For a further examination of this topic read Sobel’s book by the same title.

Classroom Antarctica
This site, developed by the Australian government, is a fantastic resource for information and educational tools related to Antarctica. In addition to eight different topics, each including a number of activities, the site provides recent news, articles, and an index relating to Antarctica, its exploration and environment.

Community Action Guide
This Action Guide, created by World Wildlife Fund and Center for a New American Dream, helps suggest ways to take on group action projects. A great resource for teachers and organizations working with large groups of young people!

Earth Charter
The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society for the 21st century. Created by the largest global consultation process ever associated with an international declaration, endorsed by thousands of organizations representing millions of individuals, the Earth Charter seeks to inspire in all peoples a sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the human family and the larger living world.

Earth Charter Curriculum Module
ES! Magazine has created valuable lesson plans and teaching tools as a way to help your students explore the values that will lead to a more just, sustainable and peaceful world.

EE-Link
EE-Link, a project of the North American Association for Environmental Education, is a comprehensive source of environmental education resources for teachers and students.

Environment Canada: Freshwater
This site offers teacher guides, activities, and lessons for teaching about water to a all different grade levels. It also links to information about Canada's water policy and the connection between water and culture.

Environmental Literacy Council
This group is dedicated to helping people, especially young people, understand and participate in making positive choices for the environment. Issues covered include: air and climate, land, water, ecosystems, energy, food, and environment and society. Each section includes a plethora of information for students and educators.

Environmental Resources Center
ERC is a great resource for educators looking to teach about water. Their website links to education initiatives focused on water issues and conservation, curriculum guides, and other pollution prevention education tools.

EnviroScape
These highly acclaimed educational models are effective, comprehensive teaching tools for watersheds, non-point source water pollution, wetlands, and more.

EPA Student Center
This educational portion of the EPA website is designed to expose middle and high school students to a wide range of environmental issues. The water portion of the site provides information on numerous current marine and freshwater issues.

Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
GLOBE is an international science and education program utilizing field-based data collection as a tool for learning, collaborating, and advancing understanding. It is a cooperative effort of schools all around the world and led in part by a number of U.S. federal agencies. Student data is reported through the Internet, where it can be shared and maps be made from it. For teachers they offer workshops, guides, videos, and web chat.

Marinebio.com
This site is a cornucopia of information on marine biology, marine research, and educational activities.

Neptune's Web
Neptune's web offers resources for both teachers and students with lesson plans, an encyclopedia of oceanography, trivia, information on student and teacher education programs, and links to other oceanography sites.

NOAA Ocean Explorer
This educational site offers lesson plans, exploration activities, history, a library, and more all focused on ocean exploration.

Ocean World
A great oceanography site for educators and students. Information and activities for teaching oceanography are provided for educators and students are able to conduct research on current oceanography topics.

Oceanlink
This site offers a lot of interesting and accessible information about various ocean topics, making it a great resource for kids interested in the ocean and ocean life. In addition to mini lessons, it includes 'Ask a Scientist' and news on ocean conservation issues.

Odyssey Expeditions - Biology Learning Center
The Biology Learning Center offers condensed mini-courses on a variety of topics including fish biology and ecology, mangroves, tides and coral reefs. Lessons are well written and include helpful pictures and diagrams.

Project WET
This nonprofit water education program for educators and students promotes awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources through the dissemination of classroom-ready teaching aids and programs. In addition to the comprehensive Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide, the program has a wide range of materials in their online store.

Project WILD
Project WILD is an interdisciplinary environmental education program that uses wildlife as the basis to teach students from kindergarten through high school about ecosystems and sustainability. The website offers curriculum and conference information for teachers.

Sea Profiles
Sea Profiles - an Interactive Journey of Ocean Exploration is a fun and informative CD-ROM educational program that takes the user on a voyage to unveil ocean mysteries. The program focuses on the waters of Florida, Bermuda, the Bahamas, and the Sargasso Sea.

Seafriends
Seafriends offers hundreds of pages of illustrated lessons on dozens of oceanography topics including currents, storms and waves. Similar resources about soil, resource management, conservation, biodiversity, and the disappearance of beaches are also available.

Smithsonian Ocean Programs
This site provides links to the Smithsonian Institution's marine programs including research, exhibits, expeditions, reports, and marine biology.

Sustainable Seas Expeditions
This 5-year expedition conducted by National Geographic and NOAA is investigating and researching U.S. National Marine Sanctuaries. The website details the expeditions and provides resource books, classroom ideas, and activities that correlate to each expedition.

Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future
This UNESCO site offers information about its multimedia professional development program for educators. The site is easy to use and provides examples of activities for educators.

The Bridge
The best online Educational Resources on oceans and marine science.

The Center for Ecosystem Survival
CEF works to increase individual participation and action in preserving biodiversity and protecting ecosystems worldwide. Programs include Adopt an Acre, Adopt a Reef, Nature Savers, Conservation Parking Meters, and several teachers' guides and resources.

The Ocean Report Guide for Marine Educators
This interactive, web-based guide features audio files with Peter Benchley, classroom activity ideas, information on the ocean, and lots of great resources designed for 4th through 8th grade students.

The Sustainability Education Center
The Center's website allows educators to order educational material with focus on sustainability.

Water Environment Federation
The Water Environment Federation is a nonprofit technical and educational organization dedicated to preservation and enhancement of the global water environment. The international network includes professionals from 32 countries, and the website offers current news stories and educational resources for kindergarten through university-level students. Subject areas include wastewater, industrial wastewater, biosolids, watershed issues and more.