Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Submarine
Students are challenged to create a submarine that will dive down through the water and come back to the surface. This site includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Other
Submarine Cable Map 2014
This resource includes details of the world's submarine cables and shows us where the underwater internet is headed in the future. Location and direction of 44 cable vessels (as of December 6, 2013) are provided. Depicts 285 cable...
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Design a Submarine
Become an engineer, and design a submarine that moves in the water like a real submarine. Try making it sink, float, and hover in the water.
Read Works
Read Works: World War I the Sinking of the Lusitania and Submarine Warfare
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the sinking of the submarine the Lusitania during World War I. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Nova Online: Submarines, Secrets and Spies
The companion site to a NOVA program on the role of submarines in the Cold War, this site provides a close-up view of life on a nuclear submarine. In addition, the transcript of the program is available, which details some of the ways...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat by Victor Appleton
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat, an adventure multi-chapter book from 1910, written by the ghost writer Victor Appleton. In this book's quest, the main...
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Fulton's Submarine
Discusses the technological and political conditions which led to Robert Fulton's invention and development of the submarine. Includes some biographical information and some graphics of early submarine sketches. (Text is the actual radio...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Boy Scouts in a Submarine by G. Harvey Ralphson
This is the complete text of the novel "Boy Scouts in a Submarine" by G. Harvey Ralphson.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Buoyancy, Density, and Fluid Principles: Make Mini Submarine
In this lab, students will use the scientific method to design an experiment that explains how/why a submarine floats and sinks.
NOAA
Noaa: National Marine Sanctuaries: Uss Alligator
A website dedicated to the engineering marvel, USS Alligator. Read a history and find blueprints of this innovative submarine. Use the topics on the left to navigate the site. From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
PBS
Pbs Nova: Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor
Japanese submarines in use near the end of World War II had the potential to inflict heavy damage on the United States. This transcript looks at these 'killer subs' and what we now know about them. Additional materials discuss the threat...
Oregon State University
Volcano World: Submarine Volcanoes
Did you know the most productive volcanic systems on Earth are beneath the ocean? This reference page will explore the features and properties of these submarine volcanoes.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Monterey Submarine Canyon, California Moored Array Data Report [Pdf]
This advanced site discusses some of the research done and research techniques used in studies of the Monterey Canyon. Great graphics showing the position of the canyon relative to other features of the continental margin. Also...
NOAA
Noaa: Submarine Ring of Fire 2006
This multi-media site is packed with interesting information about the exploration of the undersea volcanos situated along the Marianna Arc.
Open Library of the Internet Archive
Open Library: The Boy Allies Under the Sea, Or, the Vanishing Submarines
This ebook version of Robert L. Drake's The Boy Allies Under The Sea, Or, The Vanishing Submarines has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be...
Open Library of the Internet Archive
Open Library: Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat
This ebook version of Victor Appleton's Tom Swift And His Submarine Boat, Or, Under The Ocean For Sunken Treasure has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Bottled Up Buoyancy
Sure you understand what makes submarines cool, they allow us go underwater and explore the sea! But understanding how they function is a completely different matter. This lab will help you investigate how submarines dive and surface by...
Digital History
Digital History: The United States Wwi
This site explains how Germany resuming unrestricted submarine warfare contributed to the US entering WWI. Site is well-written, informative, and contains great details.
Curated OER
History Matters: The Zimmerman Telegram Bringing America Closer to War
This is a copy of the actual Zimmerman Telegram where Germany states that it "Intends to begin - unrestricted submarine warfare." A great primary source that takes students deeper into historical understanding.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Mysteries of the Deep: Life Sized Drawing
Use a scale drawing of the Hunley as a model from which to draw a full-scale version of the Confederate submarine, the CSS H.L. Hunley.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Submarine Dash
Dash your way across the sea why avoiding different obstacles in this one button adventure! How far you can you make it in this addicting game for the whole family?
US Navy
Naval Historical Center: The h.l. Hunley in Historical Context
An extensive history of the Confederate submarine, H.L.Hunley, the first submarine to sink a warship. Also information about two earlier prototypes.
PBS
Pbs: Nova: Hitler's Lost Sub
The companion website to the documentary about German U-boats and the loss of the U-869 in particular. A video clip [1:31], interactive tours of the submarine, and other primary sources are included.
Other
History of Uss Nautilus (Ssn 571)
Contains information about the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine.
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