Team Resources
Downloads
Administrative Forms & Organizational Information
- 2013 Hurricane Bowl Information Flyer
- Team Registration (must be submitted for for each team by December 21, 2012.)
- Coach Registration (required for each coach)
- Parental Consent (required for each student participants)
- Boat Waiver Form (required for each participant)
- How to Start an NOSB Team
- Developing an Ocean Sciences Bowl Team, Lessons from the Washington, D.C. School System
Study Aids
- Tide Facts and Definitions
- Sediment Grain Size Analysis for K-12 Teachers
- Historical Changes in the Mississippi-Alabama Barrier-Island Chain and the Roles of Extreme Storms, Sea Level, and Human Activities
- A Descriptive Explanation of Ocean Tides
- 102 Practice Questions from NOSB
- Lab Exercises - Salinity, temperature, and Turbidity
- Student Buzzer Questions
- Key Terms - Water Quality Education Test Kit
- Tracing Oil Reserves to Their Origins, New York Times
Other Regional NOSB Competitions
(Only competitions with websites are listed. There are 25 regional competitions in all.)
- Bay Scallop Bowl, New York
- Blue Crab Bowl, Virginia
- Dolphin Challenge, Texas
- Grunion Bowl, La Jolla, California
- Lake Sturgeon Bowl, Wisconsin
- Loggerhead Challenge, Texas
- Orca Bowl, Washington
- Penguin Bowl, Ohio/Pennsylvania
- Quahog Bowl, Connecticut/Rhode Island
- Sea Lion Bowl, San Francisco, California
- Tsunami Bowl, Alaska
Other Useful Websites
- Consortium for Ocean Leadership
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- National Ocean Sciences Bowl
- YouTube
- NOAA Gulf of Mexico News
- Hypoxia
- Oil Spills
- Hurricanes
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Education Stuff for Kids - General resource, includes games!
- NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science - has a section called Rising Tides on harmful algal blooms (HAB’s) that is worth checking out)
- NOAA Jeopardy Game
- Practice Questions from the Alaska Tsunami Bowl website
- The Bridge: good for data analysis and content
Visit the National Ocean Sciences Bowl website for information on how to start a team and the competition format, as well as sample questions and a list of resources.