Weekly Lesson For April 16

Monday OCEAN

Tuesday

Take up work from Monday

Using transparencies:

  1. Review marine organisms (p.189)
  2. Review ocean zones (p.188)
  3. Features of the Ocean Floor (pp. 180-181)
  4. As class, take practice ocean zones test
  5. Ocean Zones quiz
  6. Density work (worksheet)
  7. Continue reading Chapter 5 Ocean Zones

Wednesday

No planning
Ocean Floor Mapping with SONAR
How Sonar Affects Whales
2nd and 3rd Core completed density work/ turned it in

Thursday

  1. Upwellings - transparency and pages 166-167 in book.

JE 22: Upwellings
Go to pages 166-167 and read about upwellings and their
importance.
Upwellings generates some of the world’s most fertile ecosystems. A 10,000-square-mile region off the west coast of Peru, for example, undergoes continual coastal upwelling and is among the richest fishing grounds in the world. Overall, coastal upwelling regions only cover 1 percent of the total area of the world’s oceans, but they provide about 50 percent of the fish harvest brought back to shore by the world’s fisheries.
Upwelling

  1. Study island overview of oceans
  2. Study island oceans
  3. Complete research on ocean organisms
  4. Finish reading Chapter 5

Friday

Science field test demo in morning.
Study island work 1-9

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