Tree Rings: Precipitation and Fire
Tree rings can tell us about the past! This activity looks at data from tree rings in Colorado to learn about precipitation and fire events.
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Student Activity
Waves of Destruction (Tsunamis)
Objectives:
–Explain the physical processes and characteristics of tsunamis.
–Plot latitude and longitude and interpret tsunami travel times.
–Evaluate historical tsunami statistics from NOAA.
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What’s the Big Deal? (Methane Hydrates)
Students will define methane hydrates, describe where these
substances are typically found, and explain how they are believed to be formed.
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Exploring with Multi-Beam Sonar
Students will learn:
• how multibeam sonar is used to explore and study the shape and composition of the ocean floor (bathymetry)
• how to analyze and interpret maps of specific seafloor features using multibeam sonar data.
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1960 Tsunami
On May 22, 1960 and magnitude 9.5 earthquake occurred off the coast of southern Chili in South America. This earthquake is the largest magnitude ever recorded by instruments. The earthquake caused a tsunami that greatly impacted Chile, and as far away as Hawaii, Philippines and Japan.
Investigating Coral Bleaching
Through the lessons in this module, designed for grades 6-12, students are guided through the use of NOAA data (sea surface temperature and SST anomalies, coral bleaching hotspots, and degree heating weeks) to understand how scientists monitor coral bleaching events in order to determine what is happening to the health of coral reefs in the world’s oceans. The module offers lessons at five different levels, beginning with basic graph interpretation (Levels 1 & 2) and building towards activities that challenge students to ask questions and develop their own data investigations (Levels 4 & 5).
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The Oceanographic Yoyo (Ocean Chemistry and Hydrothermal Vents)
Students will analyze and interpret data from the Okeanos Explorer to make inferences about the possible presence of hydrothermal vents.
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Wet Maps (Bathymetry)
Students will explain how multibeam sonar is an example of
advances in engineering that have extended the measurement,
exploration, modeling, and computational capacity of scientific
investigations.
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To Boldly Go (Ocean Exploration)
This lesson guides student investigations into reasons for ocean
exploration. Other lessons in Volume I, Why Do We Explore guide additional investigations into key topics of Ocean Exploration,
Energy, Climate Change, Human Health, and Ocean Health.
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