The Vast Ocean

Learners investigate the ocean environment. In this ocean instructional activity, students discover the physical properties of the ocean. Over two days, learners work in small groups investigating ocean maps and creating water currents.

Go on a tour of the ocean through the lens of a scientist. Learners read maps of the ocean floor, study tide behavior, examine wave motion, and analyze components of soil. Each lesson incorporates a hands-on component.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take your class on an underwater adventure. The final installment in a seven-part series involving salt and freshwater bodies takes junior oceanographers below the surface in...

Students explore marine life by conducting a rubber duck experiment. In this water currents lesson, students practice identifying latitude and longitude coordinates on a map and define the currents of major oceans. Students discuss the...

Students explore oceanography by participating in a flash card activity. In this ocean inhabitant instructional activity, students define a list of ocean related vocabulary terms and answer ocean geography study questions. Students...

Learners analyze the impact the ocean and its currents have on weather. In this oceans and weather lesson, students analyze data comparing inland and coastal weather, and analyze satellite data for evidence of El Nino.

So many shapes in our vast oceans. Young explorers can discover new shapes in a variety of ways in this activity. One way is having free exploration with a pattern shape kit handed out by the teacher. Another is by viewing a video, Ocean...

Let this sink in: oceans cover more than 70% of the planet! This video teaches many facts about the ocean using creative graphs to convey the vastness of its features. The ocean contains the longest mountain chain, the tallest...

Did you know humans have only explored roughly 5–10% of Earth's oceans? Take a look at a video that shows us just how deep the ocean really is and the zones along the way.

Travel out to sea as scholars learn vocabulary in context through Kathleen Zoehfeld's informational book Dolphin's First Day. Go over the new words scholars will hear before reading: approach, coast, expert, feeble, gaze, murky, propel,...