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Continental Climate and Oceanic Climate Lesson PlanContinental Climate and Oceanic Climate Lesson Plan
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Continental Climate and Oceanic Climate

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There's nothing better than a cool breeze blowing in from the ocean. Scholars explore how water affects change in temperature using a hands-on experiment on climate. They use measurement tools to compare the continental and oceanic climates before analyzing experimental results to draw conclusions.

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Concepts

climates, climate regions, oceans, continents, temperature, precipitation, climate change, biogeography, bodies of water, properties of water, water

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Introduce the properties of water by showing how it stores heat in the experiment
  • Connect climate patterns to their locations by mapping major weather phenomenon on a world map

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires a few materials that most do not have in a typical classroom

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  • Incorporates a variety of instructional strategies such as discussion and experimentation
  • Engages pupils in critical thinking skills

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  • None

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