Sharks Summer
Hello. Below are the photos, videos, and activities that go with or are related to the Seamail topic. You can pick and choose, mix and match the Seamails, photos, activities, videos..etc. how ever you would like to use them with your class. Please review the videos to be sure to review the videos to be sure the footage is appropriate for the age group. We tried to find videos that most classes can use, however, when talking conservation many videos include clips/photos of dead sharks or fins illegally removed — which might be distressing to younger students.
SHARKS
SEAMAIL: Welcome to Sharks vs People
- Photo: Blue Shark
- Photo: Mako Shark
- Video: A Symphony of Sharks, NOAA Fisheries proudly presents an ode to sharks and shark research. (Takes you to YouTube page.)
- Video: Sharks, Oceans Today/NOAA (takes you to Oceans Today page)
- Video: White Sharks Courtesy of Oregon Coast Aquarium’s Oceanscape Network
- Video: Whale Sharks Courtesy of Oregon Coast Aquarium’s Oceanscape Network
- Information: Basking shark (conservation, citizen science, basic facts) Pacific Shark Research Center
- Information: Basking Sharks Gather in Large Groups off Northeast U.S. Coast (NOAA)
SEAMAIL: The Fish Time Forgot
- Handout: Timeline
TOPIC: Sorry, Megaladons are No More
- Link: The Real Megalodon: Prehistoric Shark Behind Doc Uproar (Takes you to National Geographic article)
- Link: Megalodon: The Monster Shark’s Dead (Takes you to National Geographic Blog)
SEAMAIL: The Big Tale of the Tiny Scale
- Photo: Close up blue shark skin
- Link to magnified/close up of shark scales: https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/sharks-rays/biomimicry-shark-denticles (Smithsonian)
SEAMAIL: How to Hide a Shark
- Photo: Catshark (color and pattern helps hide on ocean floor)
- Photo: Catshark on the ocean floor
- Photo: Chain dogfish (pattern)
- Photo: Reef shark in sunlight (white coloration on ventral side)
- Photo: Tiger shark (white coloration on ventral side)
- Photo: (Great) White shark (light filtering through water)
- Activity:
SHARK RESEARCH
SEAMAIL: Playing Tag with Sharks
- Press Release: Tagged Tiger Shark Proving Unstoppable NSU Press Release
- Press Release: Longest Recorded Shark Migration – Whale Shark, April 2018, Guzman et al. Marine Biodiversity Records (2018) 11:8
- Link: Shark Tracking, NOVA Southeastern University/Guy Harvey Research Institute
- Photo: Scientists pulling shark onto cradle to tag SWFSC/NOAA
- Photo: Shark in the cradle SWFSC/NOAA
- Photo: Shark in cradle about to be tagged SWFSC/NOAA
- Photo: Scientists tagging mako shark SWFSC/NOAA
- Photo: Scientists tagging mako shark SWFSC/NOAA
- Photo: Close up of a tracking tag on shark’s dorsal fin SWFSC/NOAA
- Photo: Mako shark with tag SWFSC/NOAA
- Photo: Newly tagged shark swimming away SWFSC/NOAA
- Video: How Science Aids Shark Conservation
- Shark expert, Michele Heupel, shares her research and the importance of studying sharks. Courtesy of the Oregon Coast Aquarium’s Oceanscape Network
- Video: Tracking Sharks with Sound Courtesy of the Oregon Coast Aquarium’s Oceanscape Network
- Video: Tagging Basking Sharks
- How are NOAA Fisheries scientists studying basking sharks—the 2nd largest shark in the ocean? Watch and learn how we are using satellite tag technology to learn more about these giant gentles, including their movements and preferred habitat. Heidi Dewar shares her research. (Link takes you to YouTube)
- Video: Tagging Mako and Blue Sharks SWFSC/NOAA
- How do scientists keep track of large pelagic species like the mako shark and blue shark? Suzy Kohin from the Southeast Fisheries Science Center explains the science behind satellite tagging and how her office uses this information to inform management decisions. (Link takes you to YouTube)
- Video: Free swimming mako and satellite tagging in Mexico Nova Southeastern University/Guy Harvey Research (Link takes you to YouTube)
- Mini-poster: Shark tracking (courtesy of Oregon Coast Aquarium’s Oceanscape Network)
SEAMAIL: White Shark Cafe
- Photo: White shark
- Photo: White shark 2
- Photo: White shark 3
- Photo: White shark 4
- Photo: Great White Shark, Shark Café Research Photo from Stanford University
- Photo: R/V Falkor, Shark Café Research, from Schmidt Reseach Institute May 2018
- Photo: Saildrone, Shark Café Research Photo from Schmidt Reseach Institute May 2018
- Photo: First Tag Recovered, Shark Café Research Photo from Schmidt Research Inst. May 2018
- Video: Cafe Cam Ready, steady, tag! How our researchers and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) are teaming up to solve the mystery of what white sharks do in their most mysterious habitat—the White Shark Cafe.
- Video: Voyage to White Shark Café – Saildrone Schmidt Research Institute, May 2018, (Link takes you to YouTube)
- Video: White Shark Voyage ~ Techniques And Technology (Link takes you to Facebook page)
- Video: Pop-Up Tag Update ~ White Shark Café (Link takes you to YouTube)
- As the #WhiteSharkVoyage recovers more pop-up satellite archival tags, researchers are able to piece together a better picture of how the sharks are behaving here. For example, the diving behavior of males and females are very different: males are diving up and down on the order of 120 times a day! However, the females are diving in a diel vertical migration – up to shallow water at night, then during the day to the 200-400 meter range.
- Video: Wrapping up Voyage to the White Shark Cafe Schmidt Research Institute (Link takes you to YouTube)
- Fact sheet: Great White Sharks, Memorandum of Understanding of Migratory Sharks
SHARK CONSERVATION
SEAMAIL: Sharks in the News
How you can help sharks
- Press Release: Biggest fish in the ocean receives international protection (NOAA)
- Press Release: MOU on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks (Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals)
- Video: A Symphony of Sharks, NOAA Fisheries proudly presents an ode to sharks and shark research. (Takes you to YouTube page.)
- Video: How Science Aids Shark Conservation
- Shark expert, Michele Heupel, shares her research and the importance of studying sharks. Courtesy of the Oregon Coast Aquarium’s Oceanscape Network (Link takes you to Viddler)
- Video: Shark Conservation and the Spiny Dogfish
- Tobey Curtis, a NOAA Fisheries shark researcher, talks about the importance of shark conservation and describes his work with spiny dogfish conservation in the Atlantic Ocean. By conducting stock assessments and surveys, NOAA Fisheries established a recovery plan to rebuild the spiny dogfish (Greater Atlantic Region Fisheries Office/NOAA)
- Video: Ocean as a Lab: Shark Finning and DNA (Oceans Today/NOAA): Dr. Mahmood Shivji discusses how he uses DNA to identify the shark species from illegally taken fins and how that leads to prosecution. NOTE: Due to the nature of the topic and the photos and video footage, this video not suitable for younger students.
- Mini-Poster: Get Zoned: Shark Conservation Zone Poster (yellow background)
- Mini-Poster: Get Zoned: Shark Conservation Zone Conservation Zone Mini-poster (no background)
- Link to shark attack information: International Shark Attack File
- Handout: What is Sustainable Seafood?
- Activity: 30 days to a Sustainable You
Citizen Science
- Fact Sheet: Basking Shark from NOAA
- Information: Basking shark (conservation, citizen science, basic facts) Pacific Shark Research Center
- Information: Basking Sharks Gather in Large Groups off Northeast U.S. Coast (NOAA)
- Citizen Science Poster: Have you Seen this Shark? Basking Shark Citizen Science Poster
- Citizen Science Brochure: Basking Shark
- Link: Wildbook for Whale Sharks, an international Citizen Science program encouraging divers to photograph whale sharks and send photos to scientist to ID and track individual whale sharks.
- Link: New England Basking Shark and Ocean Sunfish Project encouraging citizen scientists to help locate basking sharks (and ocean sunfish). NOAA
- Link: It’s Hammertime! Pacific Science Research Center
Other
- Postcard: Mission Sharks Rescue (National Geographic Kids 2016)
- Bookmarks: Mission Sharks Rescue (National Geographic Kids 2016)