A. OOI Undergraduate Educational Resources

is often an entry barrier for many educators. A number of recent initiatives and activities focused on undergraduate education seek to eliminate these barriers and make OOI data more readily accessible to educators and their students through the use of curated datasets and activities that can be directly integrated into lessons. A. OOI Undergraduate Educational Resources

A summary of OOI resources for undergraduate educators was presented in the March issue of Oceanography (Greengrove et al., 2020). The main purpose of this paper was twofold: 1) to provide educators with the background and materials to begin incorporating OOI data into their own classrooms, and 2) to create a guide of entry points for educators to get involved in the OOI educational community. The paper highlighted examples of OOI data-based lesson plans (https:// datalab.marine.rutgers.edu/tos-lesson-plans/) and activities that were designed and integrated into introductory undergraduate oceanography courses in a range of educational settings at different types of institutions with varied class sizes. Many of these lessons used existing interactive online data exploration widgets (https://datalab.marine. rutgers.edu/explorations/), focused on curated OOI data, covering primary productivity, salinity/ stratification, and underwater volcanism. These activities illustrate key oceanographic processes aligned with course learning objectives, as well as introduce students to the skills of authentic data analysis. Applications of OOI-based research projects undertaken by advanced undergraduate students were also discussed in the paper. Existing teaching activities were then mapped by undergraduate course levels and Bloom’s taxonomy of cognitive skills to provide an overview of available OOI educational resources and identify gaps for future development (Fig. 6.1).

Since the release of this paper in March 2020, a number of new resources for educators have been developed by the Data Lab team and community collaborators. These include additions to the Data Explorations (https://datalab.marine.rutgers.edu/ data-explorations/), the release of the new OOI Data Nuggets repository (https://datalab.marine. rutgers.edu/data-nuggets/), and a Data Lab Manual (https://datalab.marine.rutgers.edu/ooi-labexercises/) that will be beta tested in undergraduate oceanography classrooms in Fall 2020.

OOI Data Nuggets are exemplary datasets curated from data collected by the OOI that have been processed, quality controlled, and packaged for use in educational activities. Data Nuggets are designed to explore various concepts common in introductory oceanography courses, with materials cross-referenced to a common undergraduate textbook, as well as upper-level high school Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The Data Lab Manual provides detailed instructor guides and assessments built around OOI data explorations that span typical introductory oceanography courses. For more details on current

FIGURE 6.1 Matrix of OOI data-driven teaching activities mapped onto undergraduate course level (columns) and level of Bloom’s taxonomy (rows). Figure reproduced from Figure 3 (Greengrove et al., 2020).