High School Science
Module 12: Earth’s Oceans
Earth Science
Quarter 3
McGraw Hill Module 12
● Climate basics ● Difference between weather and climate ● Infuence of ocean on weather and climate (Ex. Coastal weather vs inland weather at same latitude)
VOCABULARY
● Side-scan sonar ● Sea level ● Salinity ● Estuary ● Temperature profle ● Thermocline
● Tide ● Spring Tide ● Neep Tide ● Surface current ● Upwelling ● Density current ● Beach ● Wave refraction ● Longshore bar ● Barrier island
● Continental margin ● Continental shelf ● Continental slope ● Turbidity current ● Continental rise ● Abyssal plain ● Deep-sea trench ● Mid-ocean ridge ● Seamount ● Guyot
● Wave ● Crest ● Trough ● Breaker
RECOMMENDED INSPIRE RESOURCES
PAGE MATERIALS NEEDED TIME
● Encounter the phenomenon: Earth’s Oceans video ● CER Worksheet
Phenomena Introduction
How can water carve a shoreline? Encounter the Phenomenon Watch Earth’s Oceans video CER
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● Launch the Lesson: An overview of Oceans. ● Science
Engage Launch the Lesson: An Overview of Oceans. Focus Question: How did Earth gain its oceans?
Lesson 1:
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An Overview of Oceans
Notebook page 189
● Science
Explore & Expand
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Notebook pages 190-191 and 193-195 ● Butcher paper
(Have students fll out defnitions on Science Notebook pg 190-191 throughout the lesson) -Explore and Explain: Data Collection and
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