Related: OLP#1: The Earth has one big ocean with many features.
LESSON PLANS AND ACTIVITIES
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Students will describe how climate change is affecting sea ice, vegetation, and glaciers in the Arctic region, explain how changes in the Arctic climate can produce global impacts, and will be able to provide three examples of such impacts. Students will also explain how a given impact resulting from climate change may be considered ‘positive’ as well as ‘negative’, and will be able to provide at least one example of each.
Hands-on activity: Make a photocube showing changes in glaciers.For more information:
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In this activity, students will be able to compare and contrast the pelagic, benthic and sea ice realms of the Arctic Ocean, name at least three organisms that are typical of each of these three realms, and explain how the pelagic, benthic and sea ice realms interact with each other.
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Introduction to Latitude and Longitude
/ National Geographic XpeditionsThis lesson introduces students to latitude and longitude. They will look at lines of latitude and longitude on a United States map and discuss the reasons why these lines are helpful. Students will also discuss the ways that temperatures vary with latitude and will explain the clothes they might wear at specific latitudes.
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Prince William's Oily Mess - A Tale of Recovery
/ NOAA Ocean Service EducationHow does an ecosystem recover from a major one-time insult such as an oil spill?
As you will learn from this Discovery Story, the answer is not simple. It isn't easy to determine whether a particular area of shoreline has recovered from oiling during a spill, or how to expect it to look when it has.
This lesson includes links to many other oil related lesson plans. For more about NOAA Ocean Service Education, see here: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/welcome.html
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Self Contained Gulf Oil Spill Kit
Cynthia Cudaback / The Ocean and YouA kit you can create to help your students understand the impacts of the Gulf Of Mexico oil spill. Easily contained in a box so clean up is easy...as compared to oil spills in real life! For more information, please see http://OceanAndYou.com
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Understanding Sea Level Using Real Data
/ NOAA Ocean Data Education (NODE) ProjectFive lessons at increasing levels of sophistication incorporate real data from NOAA to help students understand how sea level is measured and monitored. For more information: http://www.dataintheclassroom.org.
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Secrets of the Sediments
/ Deep Earth Academy/ Consortium for Ocean LeadershipIn this activity, students graph and analyze data from sediments collected off the coast of Santa Barbara, California to determine whether this information can be used to study historical climate change. For more information, www.deepearthacademy.org
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Wanted: Dead and Well-Preserved. . .Mohawk Guy and his Band of Neogene Planktic Foraminifer Friends
/ Deep Earth Academy/Constortium for Ocean LeadershipStudents use foram “bio cards” to read and interpret authentic scientific data and build a graphic representation to unlock ancient history stored within sediment cores from the western equatorial Pacific. For more information: www.deepearthacademy.org
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It’s Not Just the Core that Tells the Hole Story: An introduction to Downhole Logging Technology
/ Deep Earth Academy/Consotrium for Ocean leadershipStudents read about “down-hole logging” technology, in which instruments are lowered from the drilling ship into the hole after cores have been removed to measure physical properties that reveal more about sea floor sediments and rocks. They then examine sample logs to note patterns and interpret the data. For more information: www.deepearthacademy.org
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It’s Sedimentary, My Dear Watson
/ Deep Earth Academy/Consortium for Ocean LeadershipIn this introductory activity, students analyze core sample data to identify sediment composition on the ocean floor. They use Google Earth to make their own qualitative observations that help them determine the types of sediments that make up the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. For more information, www.deepearthacademy.org
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Caution! Do Not Bleach
/ NOAA Ocean ServiceStudents learn why coral reefs are important, and what possible explanations are for the phenomenon known as “coral bleaching.”
For more information about NOAA Ocean Service, visit http://oceanservice.noaa.gov.
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A Reef of Your Own
/ NOAA Ocean ServiceStudents learn what physiological, ecological, and behavioral strategies contribute to the success of reef-building corals.
For more information about NOAA Ocean Service, visit http://oceanservice.noaa.gov.
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Keeping Watch on Coral Reefs
/ NOAA Ocean ServiceStudents learn why coral reefs are important, and what can be done to protect them from major threats.
For more information about NOAA Ocean Service, visit http://oceanservice.noaa.gov.
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Who Has the Data?
/ NOAA Ocean ServiceStudents learn what types of data scientists collect to monitor coral reefs, and how these data are used.
For more information about NOAA Ocean Service, visit http://oceanservice.noaa.gov.
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Do You Know the Fish You're Eating
/ WETA/PBS Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture SeriesStudents design and conduct research to discover firsthand what type of fish is being sold in their community, where this fish comes from, and whether that fish is an overfished species. This lesson gives students a chance to do their own market research and discover first-hand what type of fish is being sold to the public. It also provides an introduction to fish as an important food source and as an industry controlled partly by supply and demand.
