High School Science

Module 12: Earth’s Oceans

Earth Science

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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