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92 resources with the concept ocean currents

Coastal Peru: The Amazing Biodiversity of a Coastal Ecosystem Video

Coastal Peru: The Amazing Biodiversity of a Coastal Ecosystem

45 mins 3rd - 8th
Peru's coastal ecosystem is only one of the country's amazing features. But travelers don't need passports, expensive plane tickets, or heavy suitcases to examine the biodiversity of coastal Peru. Armed with a field trip log and graphic...
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How Do Ocean Currents Work? Video

How Do Ocean Currents Work?

5 mins 6th - 12th
Find out what puts the motion in the ocean with a short video about how ocean currents work.  An animated video uses the story of little yellow ducky bathtub toys to show how currents flow through the world's oceans.
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Coastline Change Interactive

Coastline Change

6th - 8th
Continental drift happens over millions of years, but new perspective shows much faster changes. An informative resource offers a short term perspective using a series of satellite images. Viewers observe major changes to a coastline in...
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Invertebrates and Ocean Mixing - De-Natured Video

Invertebrates and Ocean Mixing - De-Natured

9 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
It's time to mix things up! Introduce biology scholars to the latest topic in marine research—invertebrates! The third installment in a five-part series of Invertebrates lessons explains the hypothesis that tiny, migrating shrimp are...
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Perpetual Ocean Video

Perpetual Ocean

3 mins 9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Salty sailors in days gone by used to speak of the seven seas. What they didn't know was that their world was one big ocean! Seaworthy scholars climb aboard an adventure that features the major ocean currents during a lesson from PBS's...
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Global Sea Surface Currents and Temperature Video

Global Sea Surface Currents and Temperature

1 min 9th - 12th
Get lost at sea amid colorful ocean currents! Learners discover the patterns of movement and temperature in the North Atlantic's currents through a simulation, part of PBS's Weather and Climate series. The resource contains background...
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Global Ocean Currents Video

Global Ocean Currents

1 min 9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
What forces drive the ocean's currents? Science scholars observe global ocean currents at different depths to explore their characteristics and patterns. Part of PBS's Weather and Climate series, the resource includes teaching...
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Ocean Circulation in the North Atlantic Lesson Plan

Ocean Circulation in the North Atlantic

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Swirling and churning, the waters of the North Atlantic play a vital role in Earth's climate! Discover the many factors that produce circulation using a multimedia lesson from PBS's Weather and Climate series for high schoolers. Scholars...
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The Ocean and Climate: Heat Redistribution Lesson Plan

The Ocean and Climate: Heat Redistribution

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Here on Earth, heat goes with the flow! Young climatologists dive in to the connection between ocean currents and heat distribution during a science lesson. Scholars work with interactive and print resources to create a thorough...
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Seasonal Science: Hurricane Video

Seasonal Science: Hurricane

4 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Winter, spring, summer, fall, and hurricanes? With the help of a video that is part of a larger Seasonal Science series, learn why hurricanes have a season all their own. Viewers integrate knowledge of the causes of hurricanes, factors...
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Fluid Streams Affecting Weather Lesson Plan

Fluid Streams Affecting Weather

6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
The jet stream can reach speeds of up to 250 miles per hour. Scholars learn about the jet stream and ocean currents as they rotate through stations. They answer questions leading them to understand the impact these fluid streams have on...
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How Science Explains Monster Waves Video

How Science Explains Monster Waves

6 mins 9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Ride the learning wave in an episode of a comprehensive physics playlist. Youth learn about the existence of rogue ocean waves and their behaviors. The instructor discusses the chaotic effects of multiple wave collisions.
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The Water Cycle: Heating the Ocean Video

The Water Cycle: Heating the Ocean

1 min 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
There is more to the water cycle than simply rain and evaporation! The first installment in a four-part series explores the solar heating of the ocean through three satellite animations. The animations offer different views of the earth...
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Ocean and Great Lakes Literacy: Principle 1 Lesson Plan

Ocean and Great Lakes Literacy: Principle 1

3rd - 12th
Is your current lesson plan for salt and freshwater literacy leaving you high and dry? If so, dive into part one of a seven-part series that explores the physical features of Earth's salt and freshwater sources. Junior hydrologists...
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Convection Video

Convection

2 mins 7th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Does it make more sense to place a space heater in the middle or on one side of a room to heat it? After watching a video on convection that explains what causes it, and how it works, pupils know the correct answer.
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Ocean Currents Interactive

Ocean Currents

6th - 12th
Go with the flow! The eighth installment in a 13-part series has earth science students dive in to the world's system of ocean currents. The interactive illustrates the different types and depths of currents, how wind and gravity...
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Deep-Sea Corals Interactive

Deep-Sea Corals

6th - 12th
Come take a peak at the corals in the deep. Science scholars discover the hidden world of deep-sea corals in the third installment of a 13-part series. Topics include the differences between shallow water and deep-sea corals, the slow...
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Totally Tides Unit

Totally Tides

7th
CCSS: Designed
Surf's up, big kahunas! How do surfers know when the big waves will appear? They use science! Over the course of five days, dive in to the inner workings of tidal waves and learn to predict sea levels with the moon as your guide.
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Understanding the C’s: Wind Circulation, Coriolis Effect, Surface Currents, Ocean Currents and Climate Unit

Understanding the C’s: Wind Circulation, Coriolis Effect, Surface Currents, Ocean Currents and Climate

7th
CCSS: Designed
There's more to climate than just the weather — explore the different components that affect weather with an enlightening resource. A hands-on unit takes an inquiry-based approach to studying wind and ocean currents. Learners discover...
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Weather and Climate Presentation

Weather and Climate

6th - 10th
CCSS: Adaptable
It's hot today, but is that the weather or the climate? This colorful presentation isolates both concepts to allow for better understanding by covering the positioning of the planet, making comparisons of land versus water, and looking...
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Are Ghost Ships Real? Video

Are Ghost Ships Real?

5 mins 3rd - 12th
Ghost ships are real and are used to map ocean currents. Aye, thar be much to learn for landlubbers, sprogs, and buccaneers as well in a short video that offers scientific explanations for the amazing phenomenon of ghost ships.
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Earth's Spheres and Natural Resources
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Earth's Spheres and Natural Resources

3rd - 8th
The geosphere, exosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere are Earth's four main spheres. Surprisingly, all of these spheres work together providing us with resources, weather, plants, climate, and a place to live. Here is a collection of videos that explores Earth's spheres and the effect of their interactions on the planet. Note: The videos are organized in the order they are meant for viewing.
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Currents Lesson Plan

Currents

6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
A deep ocean current circles the globe at a force that is greater than 16 times all the world's rivers combined. Groups analyze the effects of submarine topography on deep ocean current speed. They then determine how this speed affects...
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Tracking a Drifter Lesson Plan

Tracking a Drifter

6th - 8th
Be shore to use this drifter resource. The third installment of a five-part series has learners using the NOAA's Adopt-a-Drifter website to track to movement of a drifter (buoy) in the ocean. Graphing the collected data on a map allows...
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