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These classroom activities are in PDF format and require Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. They cover topics about how the ocean controls Earth's climate, structures found in the oceans, the scale of ocean life and supporting structures, measurements of climate, oceans, and factors supporting life, energies that drive climate and are associated with oceans, major climate and ocean systems and interactions, how climate and oceans have changed over time, and human interactions with climate, oceans, and ocean life.

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Classroom Activities

These classroom activities are in PDF format and require Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. They cover topics about how the ocean controls Earth's climate, structures found in the oceans, the scale of ocean life and supporting structures, measurements of climate, oceans, and factors supporting life, energies that drive climate and are associated with oceans, major climate and ocean systems and interactions, how climate and oceans have changed over time, and human interactions with climate, oceans, and ocean life.

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These classroom activities are in PDF Iormat.

You will need Adobe Acrobat


Reader to view them. To use the vocabulary links, you will need the glossary,
and the addendum glossary.
The Iollowing activities were provided by various educational organizations
and educators Ior inclusion on the Jisit to an Ocean Planet CD-ROM.


Climate Oceans Life
Scale &
Structure
ow and why does the
ocean control Earth's
climate?

1) Properties oI Fresh
Water and Sea Water
2) Earth's ydrologic
Cycle
3) Coastal Versus Inland
Temperatures
4) Ocean Currents and
Coastal Temperatures

What structures can be
Iound in Earth's
oceans?

1) Measuring the
Density oI Water
2) Evaporation,
SurIace Area,
Temperature, and
Seawater
3) Seawater Mixing
and Sinking
4) Taking the Ocean's
Temperature
5) Sound Travels
SOFAR in the
Ocean

What is the scale oI ocean
liIe and what structures
support that liIe?

1) Describing "Classroom
Communities"
2) Dichotomous Keys
3) Plankton IdentiIication
4) Observing Dissolved
Air in Water

Measurements
ow and why do we
measure Earth's climate
and climate changes?

1) Metric Measurements
2) ome Electric Power
Measurement

What ocean
measurements can be
made?

1) Fathometer in a Box
2) Sea SurIace
Topography
3) ow Level is Sea
Level?

ow do we measure
Iactors that support liIe in
the oceans?

1) Describing and
Measuring the Oceans
2) Estimating the
Population oI Pencils at
Your School
3) Building a Plankton Net

Energy
What energies drive our
climate?

1) Absorbing Light: Dark
Versus Bright
2) Solar Energy and
What energies are
associated with Earth's
oceans?

1) Making and Using a
Wave Machine
2) Ocean Wave
LiIe in the ocean depends
on energy.

1) Bioluminescence From
Ostracods (Sea FireIlies)
2) Growing
Chemosynthetic
Distance
3) Convection

Characteristics

Bacteria

Systems &
Interactions
What are the major
climate systems on our
planet?

1) Temperature and Deep
Ocean Circulation
2) Salinity and Deep
Ocean Currents
3) Message in a Bottle

What are some oI
Earth's major ocean
systems?

1) Wind-driven Ocean
Currents
2) Ocean Eddies
3) Timing the Tides
4) Global Winds and
Ocean Currents
5) Sea Level Slopes
and SurIace
Currents
6) Coastal Upwelling -
Monterey Bay
CaliIornia

What is the ecology oI the
marine environment?

1) Carrots, Celery,
Dehydration & Osmosis
2) Oxygen, Carbon
Dioxide, and Plankton

Process &
Change
ow has our climate
changed?

1) Analyzing Greenhouse
Gases and Global
Temperature Data
Over Time
2) Expansion oI Water

ow do Earth's oceans
change and cause
change?

1) Ocean Variations
During an El Nio
2) Ocean Seasons
3) El Nio Analysis

ow has ocean liIe
changed over time?

1) Biogeography or What
appens to Fish
Populations During El
Nio

Human
Interactions
To what extent can
humans aIIect climate?

1) Making a Greenhouse

ow do humans use
and aIIect the oceans?

1) Cleaning Up an Oil
Spill
2) Cartesian Diver
3) Eerie Lake Erie

ow do humans aIIect liIe
in the oceans and vice
versa?

1) Plastic in the Ocean
2) The EIIects oI Cleaning
Oil Spills

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