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This course is an online, asynchronous course, designed to take about 3-hours/week for 12 weeks to complete. Each week covers a single topic and includes interactives, activities, and a brief quiz. The final project involves developing a new lesson for your students about what you have learned in the course. The AMS staff and mentors will provide personal feedback throughout the course. The course runs in Google Classroom, so a Google account will be required. We also use Slack to engage in discussion and maintain connections after the course has ended.
Upon completion, you will receive official AMS certificates. We are also happy to provide custom certificates and transcripts to those who need them for professional advancement. Please note that this program is not officially affiliated with any university, so official course credit is not available.
Please send any questions to [email protected]
Applications will open in January 2027 for the next course that will run April - June, 2027
Participants who complete the course are eligible to apply for the two-day Project Ocean residency in January 2028 in Baltimore, MD.
Project Ocean is a teacher professional development course based on the interconnected ocean sciences. It aims to improve teacher effectiveness in ocean sciences and the pedagogy of teaching it.
Sessions will focus on sharing classroom challenges and success stories, learning how ocean scientists collect data, and hands-on data collection and analysis activities.
We aim to make these courses free for educators and provide stipends for food, hotel, and travel.
Applications will open in July 2027 for those who have completed the Online Ocean Sciences Course
We acknowledge NOAA for continued support of the DataStreme courses.