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- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore oceans, and demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students investigate how the ocean floor is mapped by using sonar-sound waves. They explain how the ocean floor helps scientists to conclude how the oceans formed. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 7th
Students identify the ocean floor in a geological sense. They create a presentation that highlights the key features of the ocean floor. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students examine the oceans subsurface, movement and the life it sustains. They, in groups, practice their math and science skills. They develop interactive displays to show the class. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students complete a unit on oceans. They build models of the ocean, make flipbooks, and perform an experiment to see which items float in salt water and freshwater. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine how the Mariana Trench's natural assets could affect communities worldwide. They analyze a map, identify the location and features of the Mariana Trench, explore various websites, and create a public awareness poster advocating the importance of the Mariana Trench. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students study and make a model of the significant formations of the ocean floor. They examine images and illustration and apply their imagination while creating the model. They are challenged to complete further research as an oceanographer. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students participate in a whole class discussion of ocean-floor structures and plate tectonics. They respond to prompts in a structured sequence that lead them to conclusions about the role of plate tectonics in the creation of sea-floor features such as mid-ocean ridges and trenches. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students investigate the ocean floor through the construction of a model of it. They conduct preliminary research using a variety of resources. Students label and then describe the different geographical features including continental shelf, slope, and rise. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students determine Earth's deepest trench, outline continents, major ocean mountains, and trenches on color-key map using Crayola Erasable Colored Pencils, identify oceans' geographic features, locate significant oceanic features around globe, and reproduce their findings using relief map format. Full Review »

