STANDARD - ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH SYSTEM
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Density Driven Currents - COSEE Coastal Trends 
Lesson PlanSummary
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.
Monitoring Estuarine Water Quality - The NOAA Ocean Data Education Project
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.
90+ minsSea Level Rise and Storm Surge - COSEE Coastal Trends
Summary
Students use topographic maps and tide data to predict coastline flooding associated with sea level rise. In a companion exercise students predict the extent of flooding due to storm surge.
The height of the ocean water (sea level) is affected by various physical forces and, in turn, affects coast lines.
Education Standards
History's Thermometers - NOAA Ocean Explorer
Lesson PlanSummary
Students track climate changes through changes in oxygen isotopes using data from deep-sea corals.
Ocean processes have major effects on global climate change; global climate change could have major impacts on the ocean.
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Pilbara to Mars: Are We Alone? - NASA and Macquarie University
Summary
Using data collected from Pilbara, Australia, students study the age of the fossilized stromalites of the region.
