OCEANS 11 DAILY AGENDA
| DATE | LESSON |
| Feb 2 | - reviewed course outline - reviewed classroom expectations - oceans review challenge - world map trivia activity |
| Feb 3 | - intro to oceans video clip - corrected world map trivia activity - bodies of water activity |
| Feb 6 | - what is an ocean? notes - relative sizes of the major oceans worksheet - oceanography notes * started reading #1 - the beginnings of oceanography |
| Feb 7 | * continued working on reading #1 - the beginnings of
oceanography * oceans careers assignment |
| Feb 8 | - plate tectonics notes - investigating the earth's crustal plates by studying earthquakes and volcanoes activity |
| Feb 9 | - layers of the earth notes - seafloor map treasure hunt activity - started tectonic plates and plate boundaries notes |
| Feb 10 | - finished tectonic plates and
plate boundaries
notes - tectonic plates worksheet - continental margins notes - mapping the ocean floor (from NS to France) worksheet |
| Feb 13 | - review mapping the ocean floor (from NS to France)
worksheet - ocean mapping notes - bathymetric data colouring map |
| Feb 14 | - bathymetric contour map
profiles - plate tectonics and ocean mapping review questions |
| Feb 15 | - corrected plate tectonics and ocean
mapping review questions * plate tectonics and ocean mapping assignment |
| Feb 16 | * plate tectonics and ocean
mapping probe - birth of an ocean video |
| Feb 20 | - physiographic provinces
notes - mapping the ocean floor (from New Jersey to Portugal) worksheet |
| Feb 21 | - corrected mapping the ocean floor (from New
Jersey to Portugal) worksheet - investigating the deepest ocean depth graphing activity - read article "diving into the marine environment" |
| Feb 22 | *reading #2 - deep tools - features of our ocean basins review worksheet |
| Feb 23 | - the deep video |
| Feb 24 | - correct features of our ocean
basins review worksheet - review questions
|
| Feb 27 | *unit 1 test - read introduction to water articles - started water notes |
| Feb 28 | SNOW DAY |
| Feb 29 | - finish water notes -a sticky molecules activity - started water text reading and questions |
| Mar 1 | - finished water text reading and questions |
| Mar 2 | - corrected water text reading
and questions - started water lab exercises graphing activity |
| Mar 5 | - seawater notes *reading #3 - how can sea mammals drink seawater - mysteries of the deep - the nature of things video |
| Mar 6 | - continued water lab exercises
graphing activity - water cycle video clip - continued mysteries of the deep - the nature of things video |
| Mar 7 | *introduction to water lab - finished mysteries of the deep - the nature of things video - started water and heat notes |
| Mar 8 | *salinity assignment |
| Mar 9 | - continued water and heat
notes - water and heat text reading and questions |
| Mar 12 - 16 | MARCH BREAK |
| Mar 19 | - properties of water notes - properties of water notes summary chart - introduced salinity and evaporation graphing activity |
| Mar 20 | - density layers of the ocean
notes - finished salinity and evaporation graphing activity |
| Mar 21 | - corrected salinity and evaporation
graphing activity - density structure text reading and questions - started data analysis activity |
| Mar 22 | - corrected data analysis
activity - water review questions - air circulation notes - started unequal heating of the earth by latitude activity |
| Mar 23 | - finished unequal heating of the earth by
latitude activity - circulation model notes *reading #4 - running shoes as drift meters |
| Mar 26 | - corrected water review
questions *reading #4 - running shoes as drift meters |
| Mar 27 | *unit 2 test - ocean circulation reading and questions |
| Mar 28 | - introduction to ocean
circulation notes - surface currents and gyres notes - current card game activity |
| Mar 29 | - corrected current card game activity
questions - continued surface currents and gyres notes *rubber ducky spill assignment |
| Mar 30 | - thermohaline circulation
notes - footprints in the sand video |
| Apr 2 | - waves text reading and
questions - currents and waves crossword |
| Apr 3 | *waves assignment - corrected currents and waves crossword - reviewed for currents probe |
| Apr 4 | *currents probe - rogue waves: fact-based analysis activity - waves introduction notes |
| Apr 5 | - ocean wave characteristics
worksheet - classifying waves notes |
| Apr 6 | HOLIDAY |
| Apr 9 | HOLIDAY |
| Apr 10 | - continued classifying waves
notes - ocean waves animation (NOAA) - waves and the coast notes - El Nino and the shrinking marine iguanas article and questions |
| Apr 11 | - the wave that shook the world video |
| Apr 12 | - El Nino/La Nina notes - El Nino SST activity |
| Apr 13 | - waves review questions - tides introduction notes |
| Apr 16 | - corrected waves review
questions - finished tides introduction notes - tides animation (NOAA) *reading #5: highest tides in the world |
| Apr 17 | - tidal patterns notes - tides worksheet |
| Apr 18 | - predicting tides worksheet - continued tides worksheet - tidal data analysis worksheet |
| Apr 19 | - currents video clip - corrected tides worksheet - corrected tidal data analysis worksheet - tide table activity |
| Apr 20 | *waves and tides probe - nature of things - Coastal Canada video |
| Apr 23 | - finished nature of things - Coastal Canada video - unit 3 test review questions |
| Apr 24 | *unit 3 test - watched Ocean Animal Emergency - NOVA video |
| Apr 25 | - sustainability notes *reading #6 - a cautionary tale |
| Apr 26 | - finished Ocean Animal Emergency - NOVA video |
| Apr 27 | - marine biome notes - marine food web analysis worksheet - create your own marine food web activity |
| Apr 30 | - oceans (disney nature) video |
| May 1 | - finish oceans (disney nature)
video - plankton notes - plankton reading and questions - create your own plankton activity |
| May 2 | - algae notes *seaweed lab - create your own plankton activity |
| May 3 | - Sharkwater video |
| May 4 | - finished Sharkwater video *reading #7 - designer seaweed |
| May 7 | - nutrient cycling notes - kelp in your cupboard activity - ocean market activity - cnidarian video clip |
| May 8 | *kelp forest virtual dive
assignment *nutrient cycling assignment |
| May 9 | - kelp forest crossword puzzle - taxonomy notes - started marine invertebrates notes |