Grade Level: 6-8,
9-12
Students model Earth's tectonic plate movement and explore the relationship between these movements and different types of volcanoes.
Students model Earth's tectonic plate movement and explore the relationship between these movements and different types of volcanoes.
In this experiment, students make a claim about the cause of ocean currents and then develop a model to explain the role of salinity and density in deep ocean currents. This lesson is modified from "Visit to an Ocean Planet" Caltech and NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The El Niño Implementation Sequence provides a series of lessons and activities for students to learn about a condition that sometimes occurs in the Pacific Ocean, but it is so big that it affects weather all over the world.