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Ocean Exploration Lesson PlanOcean Exploration Lesson Plan
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NOAA
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9th - 12th
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Ocean Exploration

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Where am I? The second installment of a 23-part NOAA Enrichment in Marine sciences and Oceanography (NEMO) program starts with pupils guessing the years in which major ocean exploration events took place. The lesson then focuses on how to describe location and time.

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Concepts

ocean exploration, oceans, latitude and longitude, knots, ships, the titanic, the equator, the prime meridian, the international date line

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Have learners determine their precise location, down to the arcsecond of latitude and longitude
  • Research UTC to see how it compares with local time

Classroom Considerations

  • Be sure to have maps and globes to reference

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  • Resource includes a PowerPoint presentation to use in class

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