Engaging Native American Students in Exploring the Ocean

The NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) education program offers professional development workshops for teachers and other educators to use ocean exploration discoveries to explain key science principles.  The workshops are intended to help teachers incorporate ocean examples into their insturction and to give them tools to bring the excitement of ocean exploration and new discoveries to their students.This session is designed to seek feedback from educators within the Native American community on how to best engage their students with the rich content about the ocean that ocean exploration expeditions provide.