Assign the following vocabulary words to research groups of students who can report back to the class their findings complete with drawings or collages:

• Trieste (The dictionary will give the city in the geographic listing and most encyclopedias will give the craft as well).
• Sturgeon (The dictionary will give the fish, and most encyclopedias should give the submarine).
• Deep Quest
• Poseidon
• Gilgamesh
• Alvin (submersible)
• Dr. Sylvia Earle
• Dr. Robert Ballard
• Titanic
• Plate Tectonics
• Geothermal vents
• Tools of Oceanography
• Torpedoes