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Lesson 3: Teacher's Edition
File Name lesson.3t.pdf
Data Type presentation
Computer Program NSF GK12
File Size 1.35 MB - 1 file
Expert Level High School (Grade 9-12)
Contributor David B Clark
Source David Clark, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Resource Matrix Ocean Currents
Description
Lesson 3T

This is the teaching edition with notes covering background information and suggestions for teaching the lesson. This lesson discusses the Pacific Garbage Patch, it's size, location, and what is in it. This leads to a discussion of ocean surface currents how trash is concentrated in a specific part of the ocean. Students are introduced to the basics of wind driven circulation with the Coriolis effect.
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