Tide Patterns
Students explore tides through discussion, a NOAA tutorial, and group activities to understand their causes, predictability, and connection to waves and currents.
Tides
Students explore tides through discussion, a NOAA tutorial, and group activities to understand their causes, predictability, and connection to waves and currents.
Density
Students conduct hands-on experiments to understand thermohaline circulation, learning how temperature and salinity affect density. They design their own experiments to simulate ocean mixing, building on introductory activities that define density.
Waves in the Water
In this 7-10 day investigation, students explore waves and tides through discussion, demonstrations, and hands-on activities, creating marigrams and comparing tide patterns to assess the movement of bath toys to their final locations.
Weather and Circulation Systems
Students explore how Alaska’s ocean currents reflect major weather patterns. They observe wave motions in a tub, map potential currents, and analyze meteorological data to evaluate how well wind patterns align with their predictions.