Feb 7-11: Sea Water Lab, Waves, Currents, & Salinity

We've moved on to oceans! Freshwater is still important of course, but now we'll focus on where the majority of the Earth's water resides - in salty oceans.

Monday - Sea Water Lab (p10 - students looked at various properties of the ocean that we can simulate in the lab: density of salt water, convection currents, how waves move, water pressure, etc.)
Tuesday - Discuss lab & take fresh water review quiz
Wednesday - Ocean dynamics & properties notes (p11 & 12). We got through waves & started talking about currents.
Thursday - Global Ocean Currents Map (p12 - colored and labeled the major ocean currents and their temperatures, discussing why they go the direction they do and why there are the temperature they are...)
Friday - pg 11 notes continued. We talked about salinity (salt water is more dense than fresh water - animals must be adapted to living in both fresh and salt water because of osmosis).