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How to Use FathomVerse in the Classroom

  • Writer: FathomVerse
    FathomVerse
  • 6 days ago
  • 4 min read

Updated: 2 days ago

Hands hold a tablet showing an underwater sea anemone in the Fathomverse app, with blue navigation icons.

Consider incorporating FathomVerse in your classroom and help advance ocean science! You can choose to use one of the existing lesson plans from our partners, or reach out to our team fathomverse@mbari.org to create a new resource that can be shared with other educators. We have additional resources (FathomVerse Dashboard, Animal Icons, Videos, and promotional materials) that can be integrated with your lesson plan as well. If you’d like to dive deeper, connect with us on social media @fathomverse and join our Discord community for all the latest updates and chances to share your feedback. Onwards and downwards!


FathomVerse Educators Working Group — Interest Form

We're building an Educators Working Group to bring together teachers, informal educators, and anyone working with students who wants to bring FathomVerse into their classrooms and programs. As part of this group, you'll help shape how FathomVerse is used in educational settings—sharing what works, giving feedback on classroom resources and lesson plans, and connecting with other educators doing similar work. In return, you'll get early access to new features and materials, a direct line to the FathomVerse team, and a community of educators who are excited about ocean science! Sign up here: https://forms.gle/z2E6yMM8A9KgMFBXA


Classroom Resources

Lesson Plans and Activities from our Partners


Additional Resources

FathomVerse players can input their unique player ID (visible on the FathomVerse settings page) to see a summary of their achievements and contributions to the FathomVerse. From the Dashboard webpage, you can click “print report” to print or save a copy. In the printable version, educators can use this information to track student progress by seeing players’: 

  1. Dive Time: Indicates your student’s total time spent identifying animals in FathomVerse. 

  2. Daily Annotations: Shows when your student played. 

  3. Your Discoveries: Allows you to see your student’s overall scientific contribution to labeling previously unlabeled data. 

    1. FathomVerse Agrees: Number of images that have reached consensus, due in part to your student’s label. 

    2. FathomVerse Disagrees: Number of images that have reached a different consensus than your student’s label. 

    3. Awaiting Consensus: Number of images that your student has labeled that haven’t reached full consensus from the community yet. 

    4. The sum of these indicates the total number of contributions your student has made to labeling expedition data.

  4. Animal Mission Score Table: Allows you to see your student’s accuracy in identifying the different animal groups (coming soon to the printable version). 


Ideas for using FathomVerse + the Player Dashboard in the classroom: 

  • Animal Morphology Lesson: 

    • Have students select an animal of interest, complete training for that animal in FathomVerse, and search for that animal group in expeditions (available after 3 training dives). 

    • Play FathomVerse (and potentially incorporate other resources) to learn how to identify their chosen animal group. Students can report on how they distinguished the animal from other groups. 

    • Educators can use the Dashboard to see the student’s accuracy in identifying that animal group as well as the dives completed with that animal. 

  • Extra Credit Points: 

    • Play FathomVerse to earn extra credit points! Educators can verify their student’s contribution by looking at the daily annotations graph on the Dashboard printout. 

    • Check your student’s discoveries to see their direct contributions to ocean discovery–every time “FathomVerse agrees” your student has made data available for scientific study!

  • Volunteer Hours

    • Play FathomVerse to participate in community science. Every action taken by FathomVerse players helps to improve and train machine learning models, increasing our annotated global datasets to discover all ocean life. “Dive time” on the player dashboard reflects spent identifying animals in FathomVerse.


Ocean Animal Icons

Silhouette images contributed by MBARI and FathomVerse to PhyloPic. Our original animal icons are open-source!


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