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Density Driven Currents - COSEE Coastal Trends


Lesson Plan 

Summary
Students add fresh water to dyed salt water in graduated cylinders or “density tanks” to demonstrate density differences in ocean and coastal waters and how these differences drive currents.

Concept: Water properties
Ocean waters have unique properties.

Education Standards




Monitoring Estuarine Water Quality - The NOAA Ocean Data Education Project


Lesson Plan 

Summary
In this series of activities, students use data to explore temperature, dissolved oxygen, and salinity in ocean waters.  In “Level 4,”students are asked to relate environmental conditions to Atlantic Sturgeon migration.

Concept: Water properties
Ocean waters have unique properties.

Education Standards