Teacher Resources

Classroom Kits

Use the Museum’s Education Collection in your classroom! Outreach kits are free and designed to fit your curriculum. Take learning to a new level and let your students hold items like quartz crystals, model skulls, whale baleen, and furs. Kits include specimens, models, books, posters, and curriculum.

The following Classroom Kits are available for 2-week check out to classrooms and educational organizations:

  • Cultures of Monterey Bay - Natural Resources of the Ohlone (1 week check out only)

  • Cultures of Monterey Bay - Historic Chinese Fishing Villages

  • Skins, Skulls, and Scat

  • Rocks and Minerals

  • Coastal Ecology

  • Monarch Butterflies

  • Fossils

C-MORE Science Kits

C-MORE Science Kits offer lesson plans and materials for hands-on science activities in a self-contained format. They are designed for use with a range of grade levels. Each kit provides the information and supplies necessary for educators to teach their students about a particular topic in oceanography.

Marine Debris

Marine Mystery

Knots

Ocean Acidification

Ocean Conveyor Belt

Plankton

Random Sampling