- Lesson Plans Introduction
- About Google Earth
- Resources & Links
- Lesson Plan 1 - Daily change
- Lesson Plan 2 - Seasonal change
- Lesson Plan 3 - Long-term change
Google Earth Lesson Plans Introduction
These lesson plans were created as joint venture of the Census of Marine Life Gulf of Maine Area Program, Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System, and the University of New Hampshire Coastal Ocean Observing Center for a workshop at the National Marine Educators Association 2007 Conference, Portland, ME, July 25, 2007.
The goal of this series of lesson plans is to introduce educators and students to on-line resources for visualizing and understanding ocean science, including using Google Earth to display ocean characteristics, such as sea level height, species distribution, wave heights and sea surface temperature.
Objectives
This Changing Ocean unit currently has 3 lesson plans, each focused on ocean changes over time, with examples of each drawn from existing physical and/or biologic data. The lessons can be used alone or together as a multi-lesson unit.
Lesson plan 1- Daily and/or event-based change:
This lesson will introduce daily changes in the marine environment due to normal and extreme weather conditions using real-time data of wind velocity, wave height and more information obtained from ocean observing buoys.
A product of Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS) and the Gulf of Maine Area Program
Author: Jennifer Levin, GoMOOS
KMZ file created by Adrienne Adamek
Lesson plan 2- Seasonal or inter-annual changes:
This lesson will examine changes in species distribution due to normal seasonal variation using satellite images and sea surface temperature data.
A product of University of New Hampshire’s Center for Coastal Ocean Observation & Analysis (COOA) and the Gulf of Maine Area Program
Author: Amy Cline, COOA
KMZ file created by Adrienne Adamek
Lesson plan 3- Long-term geologic and/or historic changes:
This lesson will demonstrate long-term changes due to natural and anthropogenic causes using sea level, historic and current scientific evidence.
A product of the Gulf of Maine Area Program
Author: Suzy Ryan
KMZ file created by Adrienne Adamek