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Zooniverse Citizen Science Plankton Portal - Help Identify Plankton in the California Current 

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Zooniverse Citizen Science Plankton Portal - Help Identify Plankton in the California Current 

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Zooniverse Account Needed

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Great White Shark Jigsaw Puzzle - Online

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Great White Shark Jigsaw Puzzle - Online

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Click the Calculator looking button in the middle when the window opens and choose the number of pieces you want to work with https://www.jigsawexplorer.com/online-jigsaw-puzzle-player.html?puzzle_id=great-white-shark

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Orange Dots are tracks within the past 30 days. Note - a social media feed opens at right on the main screen - click the[-] in top right corner to close it.

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OCEARCH is a data-centric organization built to help scientists collect previously unattainable data in the ocean.

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Print out the pattern - you will need a paper towel tube too.
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/education/classroom-resources/games-and-activities/create-a-shark-totem-pole

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Printable Critter Cards - Find the Shark Set and use them to make matching, Go Fish and other games

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Printable Critter Cards - Find the Shark Set and use them to make matching, Go Fish and other games

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http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/education/classroom-resources/games-and-activities/animal-fact-cards-and-games

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Monteray Bay Aquarium Guide To Sharks - and other fish

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Monteray Bay Aquarium Guide To Sharks - and other fish

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Fishes - Animal Guide List at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

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Live WebCam - Sharks in the Monteray Bay Aquarium

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Live WebCam - Sharks in the Monteray Bay Aquarium

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From the white sharks that silently patrol the Greater to the graceful hammerheads that congregate at the Flower Garden Banks, sharks are some of the national marine sanctuaries' most beautiful - and important - underwater residents.

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PBS Wild Kratts  Goblin Shark Episode (2:13)

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PBS Wild Kratts  Goblin Shark Episode (2:13)

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Goblin Shark | Wild Kratts Videos | PBS KIDS

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While exploring the deep ocean, the Kratt Brothers come across a goblin shark who thinks their Amphisub is a snack. After trying to devour the sub, the goblin shark realizes that it's not edible and spits them out, but breaks the Amphisub's GPS.

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Maintaining healthy fish populations is vital to our nation's economy-important for commercial and recreational use, integral to our coastal communities, and providing healthy sources of protein. We work to ensure sustainable marine and anadromous fish populations and protect any fish species listed under the Endangered Species Act.

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9 Shark Facts That Will Change The Way You Think About Sharks - Help Protect Sharks!

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9 Shark Facts That Will Change The Way You Think About Sharks - Help Protect Sharks!

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Sharks have been around for 400 million years, before the time of the dinosaurs, but there's much more to them than big teeth and summer blockbusters. Consider these facts, which will change what you think about sharks.

No Need to Fear the World's Biggest Shark

Whale sharks are gentle giants of the ocean, often growing as long as 40 feet. They swim with their mouths open to filter-feed on small fish, invertebrates, and plankton. While whale sharks aren't seen on Shark Week as often as jagged-toothed great whites are, they do attract large audiences of divers-contributing about $47.5 million worldwide each year.

Some Sharks Can Walk

There's a shark species found off the coast of Indonesia that doesn't just swim around. It gets from place to place by walking on the ocean floor.

Rays Are Flat Sharks

Though they look different, rays are closely related to sharks-so closely, in fact, that they're often referred to as flat sharks. These species have cartilage skeletons and float through the water thanks to their oil-rich liver-not the swim bladder on which other fish rely. Mobula rays, pictured above, and manta rays have received protections through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

This Shark Has Many Names-Just Don't Call Him 'Jaws'

You've heard of a great white shark, but what about a white or blue pointer? Turns out, they're all the same species! In Australia, the world's most famous shark is called a white pointer, while in South Africa, it's a blue pointer.

Greenland Sharks Are the World's Longest-Living Vertebrate

Last year, scientists discovered a Greenland shark estimated to be 400 years old. That makes this species the oldest known living vertebrate. These slow-growing sharks don't reach reproductive age until around 150, so it's fortunate that they have a long life span to make up for lost time.

Many Sharks Give Birth Like Mammals

Have you ever seen a shark give birth? This may come as a surprise, but many shark species give birth to live young instead of laying eggs. That makes them more like mammals than other fish. Researchers released a video in 2015 of what they think is the first thresher shark birth caught on camera.

Blue Sharks Top the Fin Trade

These sleek indigo sharks are found in nearly all the world's oceans-and are also the most caught. About 20 million blue sharks are killed every year, most of them for their fins. This heavy fishing has caused their numbers to drop sharply. Fortunately, Samoa and Sri Lanka have proposed giving blue sharks protections through the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS). Other shark species that could receive protections through CMS this year are whale sharks, dusky sharks, wedgefish, guitarfish, and angel sharks.

Sharks Prove You Can Go Home Again

There's no place like home. There's no place like home. Sharks don't have ruby slippers to help them get home, but some species have an amazing innate ability called philopatry, the tendency to return to where they started their lives. Female lemon sharks, for example, swim all the way back to where they were born in The Bahamas to give birth to their young. The island chain is one of 15 shark sanctuaries worldwide, where sharks are safe from commercial fishing.

There Are Some Very Surprising Sharks in the Sea

It's a coral! It's a carpet! It's a ... shark? The tasseled wobbegong is one of the more unusual sharks in the ocean, but this bottom-dweller isn't the only unexpected species swimming around reefs. There are more than 500 species of sharks in the world's oceans-and there may be many more that scientists still have not identified.

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9 Shark Facts That Will Change How You See the Oceans Top Predators

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Sharks have been around for 400 million years, before the time of the dinosaurs, but there's much more to them than big teeth and summer blockbusters. Consider these facts, which will change what you think about sharks. Whale sharks are gentle giants of the ocean, often growing as long as 40 feet.

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The diversity of sharks is immense; there are 400 kinds of shark species in our seas!

Sharks were swimming in the ocean for more than 200 million years before dinosaurs roamed the planet.

Unlike humans that have five sense, sharks have a sixth sense that is known as electrosense. This means they can detect very minute fields using special organs called Ampullae of Lorenzini, which are little gel filled pores that can actually conduct electric currents. There is a little nerve at the base of the pore that transmits that information to the sharks brain. This gives the shark an added ability to pick up electrical signals from potential prey.

A shark has the ability to detect very slight pressure changes in the ocean by using a set of specialized cells called the lateral line. They are full of tiny little hairs that can detect very slight changes in water movement.

The shark has no bones in its body! instead it has a light-weight, elastic cartilage skeleton that makes it one of the most flexible animals on earth. The cartilage also reinforces the fins to help them slice through the water.

The tail fin is the powerhouse fin to a shark. In slow swimming, bottom dwellers' upper part of the tail fin is larger than the lower. Fast oceanic sharks have almost perfectly symmetrical tails providing maximum thrust.

Great whites are the largest predatory fish on earth. They grow to an average of 15 feet (4.6 meters) in length. Some specimens have been recorded to exceeding 20 feet (6 meters) and weighing up to 5,000 pounds.

One of the most interest things about the great white shark is its ability to elevate its body temperature higher than its surroundings. Most sharks cannot do that. Great Whites can produce their own heat and their body temperature adjusts according to their environment. Officially the term is endothermic poikilotherm.

The whale shark grows to be forty feet long and over 20 tons. It's the biggest fish in the world, they grow to be about the size of a school bus.

Tiger sharks have often been called the "trash cans" or "garbage cans" of the sea. They get very interested in shiny objects and they'll eat just about anything. Secondly, only to great white sharks in human attacks, the tiger sharks can be more dangerous as they are not as willing to leave an unfinished meal.

Sharks can put their digestion on hold, storing a meal in their stomach for months if they have to. If they bite off more than they can chew, turn their stomach inside out, wash out the contents and start again.

A shark can go through 30,000 teeth in a life time.

All sharks are well protected - covered in tough, thick-skin composed of a complexly criss-crossed mesh work of tough but springy fibers made of a protein called collagen. It offers the shark great protection against the elements and any predators.

It's believed ancient sharks had more gills than modern ones do today. Most sharks have five gills.The seven gill species is tied to those from the age of dinosaurs, which is 35 million years older than the great white. The seven gill species is one of the oldest species of shark still alive today.

Sharks reproduce in a variety of ways. Some of them will actually lay eggs and those eggs will develop outside of the female and will eventually hatch into the environment. Other sharks will have the eggs developing inside of them, but then they will give birth to live young. Some sharks are completely different from other fish because they will actually have a placenta, just like a mammal does, where there is a direct connection between the developing embryos and the mum and then they will also give birth live.

Watch your favorite National Geographic Channel shows the day after they air.

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The diversity of sharks is immense; there are 400 kinds of shark species in our seas! Sharks were swimming in the ocean for more than 200 million years before dinosaurs roamed the planet. Unlike humans that have five sense, sharks have a sixth sense that is known as electrosense.

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http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/coralreef.html

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Some whales eat plankton. Plankton are a group of VERY small plants and animals that live in water. Read more about them here https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-will-climate-change-impact-plankton-180955387/

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https://dolphins.org/kids_game_zone

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https://dolphins.org/kids_dolphin_facts

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Learn about CETACEANS - Whales and Dolphins
http://www.wdcs.org/wdcskids/en/worldofwhales.php

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A scientist has been studying this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ5dRyyHwfM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A226SlCQQsA

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Sea World's page complete with facts and dolphin recordings
https://seaworld.org/en/animal-info/animal-infobooks/bottlenose-dolphins/communication-and-echolocation

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Live Site - Whale and Dolphin Sightings - Hawaii/Pacific

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Live Site - Whale and Dolphin Sightings - Hawaii/Pacific

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Click on the turquoise markers for dolphins, dark blue markers for whales.
https://www.pacificwhale.org/research/hawaii-wdt-sightings-map/

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Zooniverse Citizen's Science Project - Snapshots at Sea 

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Zooniverse Citizen's Science Project - Snapshots at Sea 

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Identify pictures that contain whales or dolphins. (need to create an account -can sign in with Google
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/tedcheese/snapshots-at-sea/

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Bottlenose Dolphin Fact Sheet
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/mammals/dolphins/bottlenose-dolphin.html