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| Type of Product: | SciGuide |
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based on 12 reviews |
| Publication Date: | 5/1/2005 |
| Grade Level: | High School |
Description
SciGuides are a collection of thematically aligned lesson plans, simulations, and web-based resources for teachers to use with their students centered on standards-aligned science concepts.
The oceans cover more than 70% of Earth’s surface and play a major role in regulating the weather and climate of the planet. Earth’s oceans absorb heat from sunlight, hold on to that heat, and transport it around the globe through the movement of ocean currents. The motion of the atmosphere, or winds, above it, also affects the oceans currents. The energy in the wind gets transferred to the ocean at the ocean surface affecting the motion of the water there. With the use of sensitive instruments we are able to get a better view of the functioning of our oceans and atmosphere.
Sites with recent research and satellite data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other organizations help students understand how changes in temperature or air circulation are part of complex, longer-term cycles. They'll also learn about the interconnections between air, sea, and land and that any change could have multiple causes—and multiple effects.
Ideas For Use
A Science Guide is a valuable classroom resource for science teachers interested in integrating the web into their teaching. Each guide consists of approximately 100 web-accessible resources (URLs) that have been aligned to the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and vetted across eight educational rubrics, such as Inquiry, Interactivity, Communication/ Collaboration, How Scientists Learn, etc. These URL resources have been assembled in a thematic drill-down structure with linked lesson plans, vignettes, samples of student work and MP3 files that demonstrate how the Guide’s URLs can be utilized in a classroom. Ultimately, a Science Guide is a resource that saves educators time by providing exemplary web resources that have been pre-evaluated and aligned to the National Science Education Standards.
Additional Info
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Science Discipline:
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Global climate change
Water cycle
Atmosphere
Earth's water
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| Intended User Role: | High-School Educator, Informal Educator, New Teacher, Professional Development Provider, Teacher |
| Educational Issues: | Achievement, Assessment of students, Careers, Curriculum, Inquiry learning, Instructional materials, Integrating technology, Teacher content knowledge, Teacher preparation, Teaching strategies |
Technical
| Resource Format: | audio/mp3, text/html |
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National Standards Correlation
This resource has 8 correlations with the National Standards.
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- Earth Science
- Changes in earth and sky
- Weather can be described by measurable quantities, such as temperature, wind direction and speed, and precipitation.
- Structure of the earth system
- Water, which covers the majority of the earth's surface, circulates through the crust, oceans, and atmosphere in what is known as the "water cycle." (5-8)
- Water evaporates from the earth's surface, rises and cools as it moves to higher elevations, condenses as rain or snow, and falls to the surface where it collects in lakes, oceans, soil, and in rocks underground. (5-8)
- A watershed is entire areas of land that are drained by a river.
- Oceans have a major effect on climate, because water in the oceans holds a large amount of heat. (5-8)
- Energy in the earth system
- Heating of earth's surface and atmosphere by the sun drives convection within the atmosphere and oceans, producing winds and ocean currents. (9-12)
- Global climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun at and near the earth's surface. (9-12)
- The greenhouse effect is the warming effect on the air caused by heat rising from the surface of the Earth and being trapped by gases in the troposphere. (9-12)
Customer Reviews
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Effecrs of Ocean on Weather and Climate review |
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Reviewed by: Elena Snow on March 30, 2013 |
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Even though I am a 2nd grade teacher, I still appreciate this sciguide and the life lessons it will bring to the students who can experience and learn from this sciguide. Living in Hawaii, the ocean is a HUGE part of my student's lives. We take for granted the beautiful weather and the vast ocean that surrounds us, we also take for granted the power it supplies us with solar, wind, and hydrothermal energy. I like that this sciguide helps students and teachers to better understand some ways that can impact our climate and weather. Why do we vog some days and not the others? Why do we have beautiful sunshine? What causes the freak water tornados? Even though my students are too young for the lessons provided here in the sci guide, there are still good lessons to be learned that I can create from this sciguide to better suit my students age and abilities. Great sciguide :) |
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A good explanation |
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Reviewed by: Whitney on August 25, 2012 |
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This SciGuide, Effects of Oceans on Weather and Climate, is a good explanation to a common phenomenon that many people observe but not many truly understand. Climate is such an interesting topic to teach because everyone has experience with it, yet it is difficult to explain in terms of weather, tides, currents, winds, etc. This SciGuide gives a generous amount of information with activities as well. I appreciate the basic nature of the explanation for science teachers that do not necessarily have a strong Earth Science background. |
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What Impacts Our Weather? |
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Reviewed by: Delphine Malloy on June 18, 2012 |
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This was an awesome learning experience. This learning object increased my knowledge in how long records have been kept about the weather,
the effects of a volcano on our weather and what
we can do to help. I'm sure the students will enjoy this topic it has something for everyone.
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Effects of Oceans on Weather and Climate |
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Reviewed by: Colby Kagawa (Aiea, HI) on April 1, 2012 |
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This Sci Guide has a lot of good resources on the water cycle, but the problem is that not all high school teachers have access to a computer projector. This makes a lot of the resources inaccessible or unrealistic to use. |
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LOVE THIS |
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Reviewed by: Angelo Laskowsky (wahiawa, hawaii) on March 4, 2012 |
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I just read the lesson on Ocean Basics called "Hot, Cold, Fresh, Salty". It was an amazing activity. I do something like this as a demo already, but having the students actually do the activity would be amazing. Also, it has the students learn important concepts like density, salinity, and the different currents in the ocean. This is truly incredible. The amounts used are a bit too much for my purposes, so I'd try to reduce the amounts used, simply because I teach 8th graders.
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Water, Water, Everywhere |
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Reviewed by: Lorrie Armfield (Laurel, MD) on December 27, 2011 |
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From weather and climate to ocean basics, this informative resource describes how the Earth’s oceans play an important role in weather and climate. The SciGuide helps educators to assist their scholars the interconnections between air, sea, and land, explains concisely how understanding the influence of ocean conditions on Earth’s climate and monitoring changes in ocean conditions can lead one to accurately predicting climate change. |
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Ocean weather sciguide |
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Reviewed by: Vincent Lowery on November 30, 2011 |
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I was particularly impressed by 3 links provide in this sciguide. The USGS had a very interesting and informative site where you could follow a drop of water through the water cycle. To me this is cool because it makes you realize what a journey the water in your water bottle has gone through throughout the history of the Earth. Another site was from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and it deals with the ocean’s role in abrupt climate change. It talked a lot about the ocean’s conveyor and the role of salinity levels in the ocean. It gave me a deeper understanding of thermohaline circulation which I had learned about in the scipack. Also, I liked the NOAA site about TAO, the tropical atmosphere ocean project. It provides real time data from moored ocean buoys to help scientists get a clearer understanding of El Nino and La Nina. This is real data based science at work. The site provided complete and very detailed information about changes that are and have been occurring in the oceans over the last few decades and the implications for the world’s climate patterns.
I think it is important for students to understand the role that cycles play in the Earth’s systems. The water cycle is very important to us all and this sciguide gave me a clearer understanding of how to teach it. There were diagrams that could be printed where the student has to fill out the parts of the cycle. There were descriptions of each phase of the cycle. I can see entitling a lesson “I was a teenage water molecule” and letting the students imagine themselves traveling through the cycle over time. I also think that by using the data from TAO the students could be monitoring the oceans themselves and be able to see what was happening and make predictions, which is a higher level thinking skill. This sciguide and its links enhanced my knowledge and ramped up my enthusiasm, both of which will make me a better teacher.
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Quick and Easy |
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Reviewed by: Donald B (Stafford, VA) on October 23, 2011 |
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Nice quick review. Also, lots of Simulations and Flashes that are great for the visual learner. |
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Good collection of resources |
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Reviewed by: Sharon on September 15, 2011 |
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I liked that the SciGuide Map organized the resources into outline format. It is a vast collection of resources related to the ocean-weather-climate topic. This should be the first thing that pops up when you click on the title of the SciGuide.
Some of the external links contained quality animations that will enhance student learning. For example: the piece on upwelling at the coolroom.org is great. I will be using that next month in my class. I also liked the NOAA links with real data for students to see and analyze as they learn about the science behind different weather phenomena.
I wish someone could go through the SciGuide periodically and check on all links. I've clicked on many links that had error messages that should've been maintained/fixed. Although there were some gems (see above), many of the links were simply short article on a topic, similar to what students can see in a textbook. Links to external sites with flashing ads which took up much of the page (left and right columns) were very distracting. Perhaps these should be replaced by info generated by government websites such as NOAA. Hopefully the next edition of sci guides can focus more on interactive simulations, real time data analysis, etc. so that students can be "doing" something rather than simply reading text. |
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Excellent Ocean and Climate Teaching Resources! |
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Reviewed by: Dorothy Ginnett (Stevens Point, WI) on April 8, 2011 |
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The Effects of Oceans on Weather and Climate (9-12) SciGuide is an excellent resource to help you integrate the study of ocean and climate system issues into your classes. This SciGuide provides a wealth of teaching resources organized by three themes: 1) Ocean Basics, 2) Weather and Climate Basics, and 3) Energy in the Oceans and Atmosphere. There is an emphasis on the influence of oceans on climate and weather, human impacts on weather and climate, and environmental solutions. Teaching resources include web-based resources, lesson plans, multimedia links, |
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science earth science |
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Reviewed by: victoria (strattanvile, PA) on December 9, 2009 |
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on the every chapter 1-20 |
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Excellent Web Resources |
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Reviewed by: Greg (, ) on May 8, 2008 |
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After spending quite a bit of time getting lost in the resources linked from the “Effects of Oceans on Weather and Climate,” I realized something important. The websites linked from the guide were all very, very good! I wanted to collect good resources for a meteorology unit, and I had spent a considerable amount of time search for material online, using conventional search engines, and bouncing around from one site to the next. It was fairly hit-and-miss. Some of the sites were good…potentially useful. But many were a waste of my time. However, it seemed that all the sites included in this SciGuide were not only high-quality, but they were also organized from the SciGuide itself in a way that made sense. I highly recommend this resource for Earth science teachers looking for an organized collection of meteorology resources! |
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