Physical Geology:
Oceans
Unit Driving Questions |
Ohio Standards |
- What can we learn about Earth's structure, history, and well-being by studying the oceans?
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Science Inquiry and Application
- Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigations
- Design and conduct scientific investigations
- Use technology and mathematics to improve investigations and communication
- Formulate and revise explanations and models using logic and evidence (critical thinking)
- Recognize and analyze explanations and models, and
- Communicate and support a scientific argument
PG.IMS.4: Ocean
- PG.IMS.4a Tides (daily, neap and spring)
- PG.IMS.4b Currents (deep and shallow, rip and longshore)
- PG.IMS.4c Thermal energy and water density
- PG.IMS.4d Waves
- PG.IMS.4e Ocean features (ridges, trenches, island systems, abyssal zone, shelves, slopes, reefs, island arcs)
- PG.IMS.4f Passive and active continental margins
- PG.IMS.4g Transgressing and regressing sea levels
- PG.IMS.4h Streams (channels, streambeds, floodplains, cross-bedding, alluvial fans, deltas)
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Understandings |
- Scientific claims are supported by evidence and explained by scientific reasoning.
- The ocean includes all types of environments (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic).
- 3-D or virtual models with real-time data simulate waves, tides, currents, feature formtion and changing sea levels.
- The geologic record shows sea level changes and depositional environments including relative age.
- Technology can illustrate the physical features of the earth, including the ocean floor.
- We can interpret geologic history by using maps of local cross-sections of bedrock to relate to Ohio geologic history, the US, and the world.
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| Learning Targets: |
Students will be able to....
- Explain why the study of oceans is important to them personally.
- Describe ocean geology in terms of igenous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock.
- Describe ocean features (ridges, trenches, island systems, abyssal zone, shelves, slopes, reefs, island arcs)
- Explain how cross-sections of bedrock help us learn about geologic history of Ohio, the US, and the world.
- Explain the difference between passive and active continental margins and their coastal features.
- Use physical models of the ocean to describe density currents and thermal energy
- Explain the relationship between tides and the moon
- Describe the cause, motion and impact of rip and longshore currents.
- Explain why there is a variation in tides depending on latitude
- Interpret and explain tide charts
- Explain wave causes and formation.
- Explain transgressing and regressing sea levels.
- Show how various types of streams (channels, streambeds, floodplains, cross-bedding, alluvial fans, deltas) form and their relationship to their local geology
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| Academic Vocabulary: Bricks |
Academic Vocabulary: Mortar |
- alluvial fan
- Coriolis effect
- Current
- density, density current
- flood plain
- neap tides
- ocean
- spring tides
- streambed
- tides
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- analyze
- classify
- compare
- contrast
- define
- describe
- elaborate
- relate
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- interpret
- list; state
- explain
- law (in science)
- theory
- claim
- evidence
- reason
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| Activities |
Differentiation |
Assessment |
- Ocean geology and features - interactive lecture and notetaking guide
- Activity 6 Deep Ocean Currents
- Activity 7 Density Currents
- Activity 8 Finding the Deep Water Currents of the Atlantic Ocean
Create a map, model, or lb investigation to illustrate a specific ocean current using real-time data. Relate the oceanic current to the Coriolis effect, density changes, and physical features that exist. Present or demonstrate the product to the class. |
- notetaking guide and labeling
- hands-on inquiry with student discussion; see, say, hear, write terms and ideas
- hands-on inquiry with student discussion; see, say, hear, write terms and ideas
- hands-on inquiry with student discussion; see, say, hear, write terms and ideas
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Analysis questions on inquiry labs
Oceans web page |
Handouts
Resources
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