Lesson Journey Description: A series of 5 lessons that provide an introduction into ocean conservation, coding, design thinking, and entrepreneurship. For the lessons in this toolkit, youth will learn foundational concepts in environmental sustainability, robotics, AI and coding by exploring interactives, block coding, and programming, reading the environmental book, Plastics Ahoy!, watching self-guided videos and accessing freely available resources like Google’s Teachable Machine and Scratch. Each lesson runs ~60 minutes in length, so the AI & the Ocean Learning Journey will take about 5 hours to complete. A class computer or tablet (that can be projected) with speakers and internet access is recommended for all lessons. The book, Plastics Ahoy! By Patricia Newman, is optional to this learning journey.
Recommended Grades: 5-8
Total time for Lesson Journey: 5 hours
Career Connections:
For youth: If you found the AI & the Ocean lessons interesting, you might want to consider a career in Ocean Tech! Ocean Tech is a career field that combines scientists, technicians, engineers and the tech industry, all working together to better understand our world’s largest resource, the ocean. Ocean Tech is still a fairly new field so new jobs keep popping up everyday, you might even be able to design your future job in Ocean Tech! Here are the Top 10 Careers in Ocean Tech.
