Ocean and Weather Lesson Plans

Learners react to a series of statements about the weather, then read a news article about the affect of unusual winter weather on people and animals. In this meteorology and current events lesson, the teacher introduces an article with a discussion and vocabulary activity, then students read the news piece and participate in a think-pair-share discussion. Lesson includes interdisciplinary follow-up activities.

Students read and discuss a news article about unusual weather patterns. They answer article comprehension questions, complete a fill-in-the blank activity, analyze a color-key map, explore the ABC news website regarding global warming, and write a journal entry.

Students explore renewable and nonrenewable resources. In this ocean preservation lesson, students use KWL charts to understand ways the ocean is important to our daily lives. Students create a poster or wirte a letter to someone describing ways we can keep water clean and preserve ocean life.

Students discover the relationships between different weather patterns near their school. In this weather and Spanish lesson, students examine the weather from different points of view, eventually organizing their information and presenting it in Spanish.

How does the formation of currents and waves in the ocean happen? High schoolers will learn about the primary causes for ocean currents and waves by calculating a wave's amplitude and nautical mile speed. Then they will complete a problem solving worksheet. Finally, they will complete the study with write an essay how the Coriolis force affects them personally.

Students identify the Seven Seas and the Five Basins, and examine the significance of ocean currents and how they affect humans. They label a map, answer discussion questions, conduct research, and write a letter.

Young scholars explore the limitations of weather forecasting and how consumer-driven weather forecasting companies attempt to meet the demand for accurate, long-term weather forecasting. They act as meteorologists, researching the weather.

Students explore the weather. In this weather instructional activity, students describe,predict, observe and record the weather. Students discuss characteristics of each type of weather. Students create graphs and draw pictures to match the weather they observe.

Students consider why so many people live near the coast and explore the impacts of this trend on ocean animals. They make posters to educate coastal residents and visitors about human impacts on marine life.

Students draw conclusions about how the ocean affects temperature. In this weather lesson, students use the Internet to gather data to help them come to a conclusion about how the climate in a certain region is directly affected by the ocean.