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Ocean currents

Learning about ocean currents is important for young students for several reasons:
  1. Understanding the Earth's Climate: Ocean currents play a crucial role in the Earth's climate. They transport warm water and precipitation from the equator towards the poles and cold water from the poles back to the tropics. Without ocean currents, regional temperatures would be more extreme—super hot at the equator and freezing at the poles. So, understanding ocean currents helps students grasp the basics of climate science.
  2. Interconnectedness of Ecosystems: Ocean currents are responsible for the distribution of nutrients, which has a significant effect on marine life and its diversity. Nutrients carried by currents can stimulate phytoplankton blooms, which form the base of the ocean food web. By understanding ocean currents, students can better understand the interconnectedness of ecosystems.
  3. Navigation and Human Activity: Historically, ocean currents have been important for navigation and exploration. Even today, understanding ocean currents is important for shipping routes, fishing, and ocean exploration.
  4. Understanding Weather Patterns: Ocean currents influence weather patterns and events around the world. For example, the El Niño Southern Oscillation is a periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures that can trigger drought, flooding, and other weather disturbances across the globe.
  5. Environmental Awareness: Learning about ocean currents can also lead to discussions about environmental issues like ocean pollution. Currents can carry pollutants like plastics and oil spills over long distances, affecting marine life and ecosystems far from the original source of pollution.
  6. Introduction to Physical Concepts: The study of ocean currents also introduces students to physical concepts like density, temperature, and the influence of Earth's rotation, which are foundational in physics.
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  • Home
  • About
  • K-8 Education
    • Kindergarten >
      • Change Agents
      • Little Pail Patrol vs Pacific Garbage Patch
      • Simple Machines
      • Intro to Coding
      • Marble Runs
      • Intro to Engineering
      • Invent!
      • Ocean Currents
      • Movie Making
    • First Grade >
      • Wildlife Corridors
      • Stop Motion
      • Marble Runs
      • Coding
      • Rube Goldberg Machines
    • Second Grade >
      • Spider Monkey Escape
      • Bees
      • Circuits
      • Homemade Coding
      • Coding Robots
    • Third Grade >
      • Identity: Who Am I?
      • Planetary Lander
      • Wildlife Corridors
      • Coding Bees
      • Stop Motion
      • Genie In A Bottle
    • Fourth Grade >
      • Claymation: Juan Ponce de Leon
    • Fifth Grade
    • Sixth Grade >
      • History >
        • The Fertile Crescent
        • What's Up Egypt?
        • Good Morning Egypt
        • Stop Motion: How a Bill Becomes a Law
    • Seventh Grade
    • Eighth Grade >
      • Cuneiform
      • Student Creation in Photos: Global Collaboration
      • Finance >
        • Banks
  • Middle School PBL
    • Spring 2025: The Talking Walls
    • Fall 2024: A Hobbit Democracy
    • Spring 2024: Neighbors
    • Fall 2023: Witness Trees
    • Spring 2023: Environmental Justice Stories
    • Fall 2022: Sustainable Space
    • Spring 2022: Allies
    • Fall 2021: Renaissance
    • Fall 2021: Alexander von Humboldt
    • Spring 2021: Exploration
    • Fall 2020: Activism
    • Spring 2020: The Road Less Traveled
    • Fall 2019: Neighbors
    • Spring 2019: Take A Stand
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    • Spring 2018: Bridging History
    • Fall 2017: Voices
    • Spring 2017: Choose Your Own
    • Fall 2016: Democracy is a Verb
  • PBL Toolkit
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    • Château du Clos Lucé
    • Hobbit Doors
    • Space Helmets
    • Black History Celebration
    • Iron Man Mask
  • LEGO in Action
    • LEGO Robotics
    • Marble Maze Challenge
    • Brooklyn Bridge
    • Mesopotamia
  • 3D Printing
  • Cricut with AutoPress
  • Glowforge
    • Black History Listening Project
  • LIVE Weather Cam
  • Drone Arena
  • SLICE
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    • SLICE in photos
  • Epic Field Trips
    • Presidential Inauguration: Barack Obama
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