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Hammerhead shark
Cocos Island in Costa Rica is one of the most exciting dive sites of hammerhead sharks. They can be seen in their favorite cleaning stations, where as if they had to forget about their reputation and will demonstrate vigilance in all...
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Hammerhead shark
The main attraction of Cocos Island diving is scalloped hammerhead sharks. You will witness wave after wave of huge groups of hammerheads, some numbering in their hundreds.
Nature Conservancy
Coastal Peru: The Amazing Biodiversity of a Coastal Ecosystem
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...
TED-Ed
The Motion of the Ocean
What drives the ocean's motion? Get your class moving toward understanding by using this video. Viewers find that thermohaline circulation is caused by the concentration gradients of temperature and salinity. Using adorable animation in...
TED-Ed
How Do Ocean Currents Work?
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.
Nature League
Invertebrates and Ocean Mixing - De-Natured
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...
PBS
Perpetual Ocean
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...
PBS
Global Sea Surface Currents and Temperature
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...
PBS
Global Ocean Currents
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...
PBS
Seasonal Science: Hurricane
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...
Physics Girl
How Science Explains Monster Waves
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.
NASA
The Water Cycle: Heating the Ocean
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...
Teacher's Pet
Convection
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.
TED-Ed
Are Ghost Ships Real?
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.
Crash Course Kids
Weather Channels
How do currents affect weather and climate? This is the focus of a video that explains how ocean currents regulate the earth's climates, and how jet streams affect weather in certain regions.
Crash Course Kids
Current Events
What is an air current, and what does it have to do with the sun? This is the focus of a video that explains how air currents are driven by the sun's energy to high and low pressure areas.
TED-Ed
The Surprising (And Invisible) Signatures of Sea Creatures
Airplanes resulted from observations of birds flying. What inventions could be inspired by watching sea creatures move? Viewers are challenged to consider how bio-observation might lead them to design something to overcome...
Bill Nye
Bill Nye The Science Guy on Ocean Currents
Density drives the ocean currents. The difference in density is caused by the sun heating up the water and causing evaporation that leaves salt behind. The result? Thermohaline circulation! You could highlight this fine film in your...
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Making Waves, Saving Lives
The devastating 2004 Southeast Asia tsunami provided researchers with previous non-existent valuable data and video as to the workings of a tsunami. As well, a discussion is presented of how a tsunami would affect the west coast of...
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 34.2: Weather Channels
Learn about how ocean currents actually work with jet streams to move weather around. [5:09]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Flotsametrics
What can floating debris teach researchers about the world's oceans? We'll talk with the author of a new book about the data to be learned from observing shoes, rubber ducks, and other wayward flotsam. [17 mins. 49]