ACTIVITY - MAPPING DEEP-SEA FEATURES
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Mapping Deep-Sea Features - NOAA Ocean Explorer 
Lesson PlanSummary
Students use actual bathymetric data to create a two-dimensional contour map of sea floor topographic features. Next, students create a three-dimensional model of the landform on the contour map they have created to illustrate how features are translated from three-dimensional to two-dimensional models.
Concept: Basins and features
There is one ocean with many basins and features shaped by the movement of the earth
There is one ocean with many basins and features shaped by the movement of the earth
National Science Education Standards
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K-12 Unifying Concepts and Processes
Systems, order, and organization
Evidence, models, and explanation
9-12 A Science as Inquiry
Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
Understandings about scientific inquiry
9-12 B Physical Science
Interactions of energy and matter
9-12 D Earth and Space Science
Origin and evolution of the earth system
Ocean Literacy Essential Principles (PDF booklet): 1. The Earth has one big ocean with many features (concepts a, b)
Life on an Ocean Planet text reference (book link): Chapter 3 Theories of the Origin of Life 3:18-20
Chapter 8 The Nature of Water 8:2-5
Chapter 13 A Revolution in Science: The Theory of Plate Tectonics 13:1-29
(click a standard to show activities that meet it)
K-12 Unifying Concepts and Processes
Systems, order, and organization
Evidence, models, and explanation
9-12 A Science as Inquiry
Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
Understandings about scientific inquiry
9-12 B Physical Science
Interactions of energy and matter
9-12 D Earth and Space Science
Origin and evolution of the earth system
Ocean Literacy Essential Principles (PDF booklet): 1. The Earth has one big ocean with many features (concepts a, b)
Life on an Ocean Planet text reference (book link): Chapter 3 Theories of the Origin of Life 3:18-20
Chapter 8 The Nature of Water 8:2-5
Chapter 13 A Revolution in Science: The Theory of Plate Tectonics 13:1-29
75 mins
