There are a variety of activities available below including Make Your Own El Niño in the Classroom, which in less than 5 minutes provides a hands-on demonstration of the El Niño effect using water, mineral oil, food coloring, and a hair dryer. The El Niño Skit is for primary grades and shows students how an El Niño "works". It uses from five to seven students. A more advanced activity, Making 3-D models of TOPEX/Poseidon Sea Surface Topography Images involves cutting out layers of foam-type poster boards and assembling and painting them to match two TOPEX/Poseidon satellite images of sea-surface height.

Also, the Classroom Activities section from the Visit to an Ocean Planet CD-ROM, has been included here. It contains activities to demonstrate scale and structure, measurement, energy, systems and interactions, process and change, and human interactions against climate, oceans, and life. These activities were provided by various educational organizations and educators. Each of the links below is given an "Audience Rating" to help you can find just the material you're looking for.

Audience: T = Teacher materials, G = General public, Kids = grades K-8, Y = Young adults and grades 9-12, U = Undergrads, S = Scientists and Graduate students

Audience	Material	Contributor
G	E/PO stories and articles	OST E/PO team
T, Kids	A Jason-1 Oceanic Adventure - Voyage on the High Seas - a board game with information/classroom activities on back. PDF version available.	TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 Outreach Team, JPL the Space Place
T	Classroom activities from VTOP CD - Standards-based activities in Oceans, Climate, and Life from the highly-acclaimed Visit to an Ocean Planet educational CD. Activities are in PDF format and are suitable for Grades 6-12.	TOPEX/Poseidon Project Office, JPL
T	Making 3-D models of TOPEX/Poseidon Sea Surface Topography Images	Bob Perry and Robin Baltrushes, Malibu High School, UCLA OceanGLOBE
All, T	El Niño demonstration - see how an an El Niño works. Using common household items, this simple demo makes the phenomena understandable. (PDF version (PDF, 58 KB) also available)	Kelly Perry (JPL) Johan Berlin (Raytheon) James Kendall (JPL) Ruby Krishnamurti (Florida State University)
T	El Niño Skit - for primary grades. (PDF version (PDF, 336 KB) also available)	Annie Richardson, JPL
Kids, Y, T	Ocean World - on-line resources for educators, information about useful books, links to lesson plans and classroom activities	Texas A&M University
T,U	Teaching the Physics and Math of Oceanography Using Satellite Data	University of Washington/ Northwest School in Seattle
T	On-line tutorial - the basics of altimetry and TOPEX/Poseidon	TOPEX/Poseidon Project Office, JPL
T	Links to Education web pages and more education web pages	TOPEX/Poseidon Project Office, JPL and Texas A&M University
All	Satellite orbit visualization - TOPEX/Jason tandem mission animation: Ocean altimetry satellites in action	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
All	Educational Outreach at JPL	Jet Propulsion Laboratory