The JOIDES Resolution website has an entire collection of Classroom Activities that include lesson plans, data exercises, digital interactives, posters, and career information. Below are some additional materials to support teaching and learning about scientific ocean drilling and ocean sciences.

Course Exercises

Climate Detectives (SERC/TERC EarthLabs). Students analyze data from sediment cores and search for clues about Earth’s past climate history.

The OOI Ocean Data Labs Project. The National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is advancing our ability to understand the natural world by collecting large quantities of data to address complex oceanographic processes. This expanded access to data also provides professors in the geosciences with new opportunities to engage undergraduate students in authentic data experiences using real-world data sets to teach geoscience processes. Explore the Data Labs and the Laboratory Exercises (fully online).

Background Information for Instructors

Traveling through time with the International Ocean Discovery Program: Scientific ocean drilling reveals Earth’s past (NAGT Webinar, recorded April 11, 2024).

Book

St John, K., R. Mark Leckie, K. Pound, M. Jones, L. Krissek. (2012). Reconstructing Earth’s Climate History: Inquiry-based Exercises for Lab and Class. Wiley. 528 pages. ISBN: 978-0-470-65805-5