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An Ocean of Opportunity: Exploring solutions to the climate crisis

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Grade Level Grades 6-10, Adult Education, Professional Development
Resource Type Activity, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Presentation
Standards Alignment
Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards

About This Lesson

Dive into An Ocean of Opportunity! Through these resources, teachers will better understand and be equipped with ready-to-use materials to instruct about ocean-based solutions to climate change, such as renewable energy and plastics alternatives.

There are 4 content chapters that can be used in the classroom as lecture, or assigned as self-led instruction. 

There are 3 companion resources available for teachers to use in the classroom to provide hands-on activities that support the learning of An Ocean of Opportunity content. 

Resources

Files

Beneficial Bioplastics Lesson.pdf

Activity, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Presentation
March 5, 2024
1.28 MB

Eco-Wave Energy Challenge.pdf

Activity, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Presentation
March 5, 2024
529.93 KB

Examining Electricity.pdf

Activity, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Presentation
March 5, 2024
3.37 MB

Standards

Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth's systems.
Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts.
Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.
Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.

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