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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Chemical Oceanography

For Students 9th - 10th
Students study the chemical characteristics of the World Ocean, water chemistry, element cycles, and chemical resources in this multi-media learning module.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: One World Ocean

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students learn about ocean currents and the difference between salt and fresh water. They use colored ice cubes to see how cold and warm water mix and how this mixing causes currents. Also, students learn how surface...
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BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Restoring Oyster Reefs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After learning about the role of oysters in an estuary ecosystem and a population decline that oysters have faced over time from overharvesting and pollution, students work with data to determine where are ideal sites for restoring...
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BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Restoring Oyster Reefs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After learning about the role of oysters in an estuary ecosystem and a population decline that oysters have faced over time from overharvesting and pollution, students work with data to determine where are ideal sites for restoring...
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BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Asking and Answering Questions With Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This inquiry is intended to provide students with practice developing investigable questions that need data, and specifically large datasets, to be answered. Click the teacher resources link for teaching guides and student handouts.
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Other

Bscs: Asking and Answering Questions With Data

For Students 9th - 10th
In this self-directed lesson, learners use graphs and maps of water quality to investigate relationships between variables to answer questions. A handout with everything the student needs to complete this lesson is available as a PDF or...
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US Geological Survey

Usgs: Water Science for Schools Why Is the Ocean Salty?

For Students 3rd - 8th
This U.S. Geological Survey website offers one explanation of why the ocean is salty. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Predicting the Spring Phytoplankton Bloom in the Gulf of Maine

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson helps students understand the variables that influence the abundance of phytoplankton. Students will make predictions about the timing of the spring phytoplankton bloom in the Gulf of Maine. Furthermore, data from buoy...
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Seashore Science

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Come and learn with this incredible seashore science resource. The content includes fun facts, experiments, reproducible activities, resources and more.
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Rice University

Rice University: Museums Teaching Planet Earth: What Is the Hydrosphere?

For Students 9th - 10th
Focus is on the hydrosphere and contains the definition as well as characteristics of the ocean and the effect of the ocean on climate.
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Purple Math

Purplemath: "Mixture" Word Problems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Demonstrates, step-by-step and with examples, how to set up and solve 'mixture' word problems.
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Energy for Sustainable Development

Kids and Energy: Ocean Energy

For Students 6th - 8th
Generating technologies for deriving electrical power from the ocean include tidal power, wave power, ocean thermal energy conversion, ocean currents, ocean winds and salinity gradients. Of these, the three most well-developed...
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Other

Macrohistory: Sargon the Great, Sumerians and Babylon

For Students 6th - 8th
The decline of Sumer was caused by salinization which led to hunger and malnutrition. Sargon the Great easily defeated the weakened Sumerians to establish the Akkadian empire. Study the rise and fall of the Akkadian empire and view a...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Finding the % Salt in Seawater

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this experiment, students are asked to collect data in order to prepare a calibration curve showing the relationship between the percentage of salt and the mass of salt water. Using this graph, students will be able to determine the...
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US Geological Survey

Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation: The Magic of the Estuary

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A collection of multiple intelligences learning activities about the characteristics and functions of an estuary. The site also includes basic information about an estuary along with facts about the Lake Pontchartrain estuary.
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NASA

Nasa: Climate Kids: What Is Happening in the Ocean?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out why the oceans on Earth are so vital to the cycling of matter and energy through its spheres.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Seawater Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes dissolved ions in seawater and their source.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Seawater Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the composition of seawater, including dissolved ions in seawater and their source.
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Other

Planet Ark: World Environmental News

For Students 9th - 10th
Welcome to Planet Ark's daily Reuters World Environment News - the most comprehensive source of environmental news on the Net. To read previous news stories, please use the search engine below to find stories relating to any...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Chad: Lakes of Ounianga

For Students 9th - 10th
The site includes eighteen interconnected lakes in the hyper arid Ennedi region of the Sahara desert covering an area of 62,808 ha. It constitutes an exceptional natural landscape of great beauty with striking colours and shapes. The...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Mongolia: Uvs Nuur Basin

For Students 9th - 10th
The Uvs Nuur Basin (1,068,853 ha), is the northernmost of the enclosed basins of Central Asia. It takes its name from Uvs Nuur Lake, a large, shallow and very saline lake, important for migrating birds, waterfowl and seabirds. The site...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Kenya: Lake Turkana National Parks

For Students 9th - 10th
The most saline of Africa's large lakes, Turkana is an outstanding laboratory for the study of plant and animal communities. The three National Parks serve as a stopover for migrant waterfowl and are major breeding grounds for the Nile...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Saltwater Tester

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explore circuits and the flow of electricity. Create a saltwater tester using a battery and electrical buzzer.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Earth's Oceans

For Students 4th - 6th
Oceans contain 97% of the water on the Earth and are home to a huge number of living creatures. View an informative slideshow of the ocean and its inhabitants and then test yourself on what you learned.

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