Description

Do you need resources to introduce air and sea interactions for your Earth Science, Marine Science or Oceanography class? This resource contains activities including an editable PowerPoint lesson with guided notes that all both together. It also includes warm-ups/exit tickets and self-grading task cards. All of the activities are editable and they are all digital for use with Google Slides or Forms for online or online learning!

Content covered:

⭐ Composition of Earth’s Atmosphere

⭐ Layer of Earth’s Atmosphere

⭐ Importance of the Sun

⭐ What causes uneven heating of the sun?

⭐ Coriolis Effect

⭐ Wind & Convection cells

⭐ Major wind patterns (Trade winds, prevailing westerlies, polar easterlies)

⭐ Surface currents and deep currents

⭐ Gyres

⭐ Ekman Transport and Ekman Spiral

⭐ Upwelling and downwelling

⭐ Gulf stream, oscillations, El Niño Southern Oscillation

⭐ Monsoons and cyclones

⭐ Layers of the ocean (epipelagic, thermocline, deep bottom layer)

Included in this bundle:

1. POWERPOINT/GOOGLE SLIDES LESSON & GUIDED NOTES

Need to introduce or review air and sea interactions for your marine science, oceanography or marine biology class but don’t have enough time to teach a full lesson? This resource contains a quick, interactive PowerPoint lesson and visual guided notes to review the key information related to ocean and atmospheric circulation.

It is editable to meet the needs of your students and there is a colorful Google Slides version of both the PowerPoint lesson and guided notes to use digitally!

Included in this resource:

• Editable Quick PowerPoint Lesson
• Editable guided notes with 2 versions for differentiation
• Cover for interactive science notebooks
• Google Slides version of PowerPoint lesson and guided notes for online learners
• Editable, Printable Assessment with Self-grading Google Forms option.

2. WARM UPS/EXIT TICKETS

2 weeks of editable warm up slides that could also be used as exit tickets! Digital or print versions are perfect for an air and sea interactions unit in your marine biology, marine science or oceanography classroom with no prep! Use these as bellringers to get your students ready for the day or end the class with a ticket out the door. Google Slides versions are also included for online learning!

Each question is in short or long response format so students explain the topic and their understanding.

There are 3 ways to use these editable warm ups:

1. Use them with slides as students fill out the answers on their own personal answer sheet.

2. Use the answer sheets with the questions on them without the slides. I personally have my students hole punch them each week to add into a pronged folder or binder to use as a study tool. You can even print them at 90% so students can glue them into their interactive science notebooks!

3. Use them for online learning or digitally with the Google Slides version. This is also perfect for digital interactive student notebooks.

A PowerPoint version is included for editing and a PDF version is included for easy printing.

*The questions are editable but the fonts and clip art are not due to copyright.*

Included in this resource:
✅ 2 weeks of warm ups (10 total).
✅ 3 editable templates to fit the needs of you and your students
✅ PowerPoint Slides with the questions to project for your students
✅ Answer key

3. TASK CARDS

These 24 air and sea interactions editable task cards can be used in a classroom or digitally for online learning through Google Forms with no prep and they are self grading! Perfect for a Marine science, Earth Science or Oceanography class. They can be easily printed, cut and laminated for use in the classroom with a ready-to-print student answer sheet.

Review vocabulary, key concepts and contributions to ocean and atmospheric circulation.

The link for Google Forms is available in the resource. An answer key in included in the resource and in Google Forms.

Task cards can be printed 1 per page or 4 per page. The answer sheet can be printed 1 per page or 2 per page to save paper. I typically print 2 per page so they’re perfect for gluing into interactive notebooks.

*Please note that the text is editable in each task card but the titles and clip art are not editable.

4.Ocean and Atmospheric Circulation Google Slides™ and Print Activities

This is a print and digital science interactive notebook resource that uses Google Slides. There are 10 interactive activities with 2 readings related to air and sea interactions. These activities are perfect for an Oceanography, Marine Science or Earth Space Science class with no prep! These can be used as online stations, an activity for early finishers, homework or for review in the classroom. Perfect for online learning or in person instruction!

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand/label visual representations and review concepts.

One slide also includes a reading comprehension article that can help students complete many of the slides.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. See the preview to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides and print version are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:

⭐Vocabulary (gyres, thermocline, Coriolis Effect, oscillations, Ekman Spiral, Upwelling, Downwelling)

⭐ Labeling layers of the atmosphere

⭐ Understanding the Coriolis Effect

⭐Labeling the 5 subtropical gyres and understanding how they work

⭐Upwelling and it’s benefits to marine ecosystems

⭐Ekman transport

⭐1 reading with questions on El Nino

⭐1 reading about the “Friendly Floaties” incident in 1992, plotting locations where the rubber bath toys were found and estimating which surface currents brought them there

*Please note that this is not an editable resource*