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Welcome to the Ocean of Know

This is the site of a not for profit educational initiative. The site strives to promote competency in literacy and mathematics using lessons that focus on an aquaculture themes. These lessons include Understanding Percents (through the management of classroom fish), Equivalent Fractions (use food-coloring, sugar, and a dissolved oxygen tests to determine concentrations), and Japanese Garden (where students investigate, plan and carry out the building of the Japanese Garden in the schoolyard). Additional features include plant and animal webquests, an interactive simulation on shark tagging, and background information on aquaponics in a recirculation system.

Keywords:: Life Science, Science -- Informal Education, Geoscience, Science -- Biological and Life Sciences, NSDL, Ecology, Oceanography, Science, Physics, Technology, Earth Science, Space Sciences, Chemistry, Biological Oceanography, Science -- Agriculture, Science -- Oceanography, Chemical Oceanography, Astronomy, Physical Oceanography, Education, Space Science, Science -- Instructional Issues, Forestry and Agriculture, Physical Sciences