Lesson Plans
Dana submitted several lesson plans while on the ship. You
can also visit Jennifer Richards and Jane Temoshok's, EPIC
Teachers at Sea, web site to see more great lesson plans
about El Niño and climate research.
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Lesson Plans
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Description
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| Water Waste |
Students will 1) be able to explain the ways plastic waste
can affect the marine environment; 2) be able to describe
things they can do to can down on plastic waste entering the
marine environment.(PDF) |
| Kelp the Helper |
Students will research kelp and list and describe how it
is beneficial to the ocean and to humankind through making
a display and an oral report. (PDF) |
| Surface Tempurature
Experiment |
Students will replicate experiments that scientists do to
check the variance between the surface temperature and lower
temperatures at depth (PDF) |
| Water Wise |
Students will identigy the importance of water to their
lives and describe the importance of water through vocabulary
development, phrasing or poetry (PDF) |
Related Lesson Plans and
World Wide Web Resources
Climate Lesson Plans
Discovery School.com
The Big Wet
"Students will understand the northernmost areas in Australia are characterized by a climate known as “tropical wet and dry,” the temperatures are always warm, with a six-month dry season and a long rainy season known as “the big wet,” and other areas in the world have similar climates."
Understanding Weather and Climate
"Students will understand infrared rays from the sun enter Earth’s atmosphere, the gas carbon dioxide (CO2), which is given off by green plants, traps the sun’s warmth within Earth’s atmosphere, the greenhouse effect is important to life on Earth because it provides our planet with the warmth it needs for animal and plant life to thrive, and the burning of certain fuels creates excess CO2, which traps even more heat within Earth’s atmosphere, possibly creating a phenomenon known as global warming, which may be harmful to life on Earth."
National Geographic Lesson Plans:
Climate Controls
"Students consider how various parts of the world and the U.S. are affected by climate controls such as world air currents."
Climate and Agriculture
"Students will research, discuss, and write reports on the relationship between climate and agriculture."
Discovery School.com
Landslides
"Students will understand how to design an experiment and how to control different variables in an experiment, how different soil materials can produce varying types of landslides, how scientists can predict where landslides could occur, and what El Niño has to do with landslides."
Discovery School.com
Understanding Oceans
"Students will understand all the oceans on Earth are really one 'world ocean,' warmer water from the oceans around the equator rises to the top, while colder water from the oceans around the poles sinks to the bottom, ocean currents are caused by the rising and sinking of warmer and colder water, ocean currents affect weather and life all over the globe." (This lesson can be tied into a lesson about El Niño)
American Association for the Advancement of Science: Science Netlinks
El Niño
To understand that El Nino is caused by changes in the atmospheric and ocean content.
Galapagos Lesson Plans
National Science Teachers Association
Galapagos Education Web Site
"Contains downloadable and online activities to use in the class about the Galapagos."
Discovery School.com
Galapagos: Beyond Darwin
"Students will understand the term endemic, as applied to animal and plant life, means “native,” or “restricted to certain geographical areas,” the presence of introduced species, or animal and plant species not endemic to a certain area, can endanger endemic species in that area, many unusual animal species are endemic to the Galapagos Islands, and the presence of introduced animal and plant species in the Galapagos is endangering the endemic animal and plant populations."
General Science Lesson Plans
NOAA Education Web Site
Climate Change and Our Planet
Multiple resources about climate change.
National Geographic Lesson Plans:
What can we learn from satellite images?
"Students look at maps and the satellite images to see how various settled parts of the Earth have changed over the past few decades."
Educational Resources
NOAA Education Web Site
NOAA Education Resources
Multiple resources about science, climate change, weather, oceans, etc.
Climate TimeLine Web Site
Climate TimeLine Information Tool
Climate and weather impact our everyday lives in numerous ways and have strongly influenced human and natural history for many millennia. Yet climatic dynamics are complex. Reconstructing past climate events and patterns (such as abrupt climate change) is challenging, and forecasting future weather and climate remains difficult at best.
NOVA Online Adventure
Tracking El Niño
"Next to the seasons, El Niño is the most powerful force driving global weather. Find out what scientists are learning about this mysterious weather phenomenon and its reach through space and time. Learn about the Anatomy of El Niño, Chasing El Niño, and El Niño's Reach."
NOAA Central Library
Information about NOAA's History, the library's special collections, brown bag seminars and much more.
http://www.lib.noaa.gov/
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
El Niño Theme Page
Web site access to distributed information on El Niño
Franklin Institute Online
Hot Air Over Hot Water
Includes the "science of El Niño, local news reports about El Niño, and information about the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) Array.
Note for educators: The TAO/TRITON array continues to collect data and the Ka'imimoana continues to maintain the array. Please use the TAO web site, in conjunction with this web site, the lesson plans, daily logs, the videos, and the photos to educate your students about climate, El Niño, and scientific research in general.
Consider this web site, as well as the EPIC web site, a resource for teaching your students.
Many organizations and countries are involved in supporting the
TAO/TRITON Array in the Equatorial Pacific.
Primary U. S. funding is provided by The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
This website is maintained and frequently updated by
NOAA's Office of Global Programs.
ogpwebmaster@noaa.gov
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