Storm Drain Water Testing
Chemistry Unit Challenge for Integrated Coordinated Science I
(high school)
A hands-on exercise that
- uses the “5 E’s Learning Cycle: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate”
- is correlated to California Science Content Standards, California Environmental Education Principles and Ocean Literacy Standards
Click here to download the Teacher’s Handbook.
Click here to download the Student’s Handbook.
Conceived and written by Gary Serbeniuk,
Designed and illustrated by Meredith Morgan
COSEE-West Online Workshop: Marine Protected Areas and the Marine Life Protection Act - March 14–April 3, 2009
Our Spring 2009 workshop on marine protected areas (MPAs) and the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) featured keynote speaker scientists from California State University, Fullerton, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Steve Murray spoke during the first week of the workshop, Dr. Satie Airame spoke during the second week of the workshop, and Dr. Chris Lowe spoke during the final week of the workshop. Phyllis Grifman, Associate Director of the University of Southern California Sea Grant Program also gave a brief presentation summarizing the work that stakeholder groups are doing during the MLPA process. All lectures and subsequent discussions are archived and available online at the College of Exploration.
The following lessons were developed (mostly) by middle and high school teachers who took the MPA/MLPA workshop for graduate credit from California State University, Fullerton. Each teacher chose a topic related to marine protected areas that interested them during the workshop and developed a lesson plan to teach that topic to their students. All lessons are correlated to education standards, but since these teachers are from all over the United States, their standards correlations are for their home state (some are also correlated to National Education Standards and Ocean Literacy Standards).
COSEE-West Online Workshop: Weather, Sea Level Rise and Climate Change - November 3–21, 2008
These three-week long online workshops were created by COSEE-West as a way of reaching a broader audience on topics of scientific and societal importance. Our November 2008 workshop on climate change featured keynote speaker scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Yi Chao spoke during the first week of the workshop, and was available for Q&A with our participants during the week. Dr. Eric Rignot spoke during the second week of the workshop, and Dr. William Hamner spoke during the final week of the workshop. All lectures and subsequent discussions are archived and available online at the College of Exploration.
The following lessons were developed (mostly) by middle and high school teachers who took the Climate Change workshop for graduate credit from California State University, Fullerton. Each teacher chose a topic related to climate change that interested them during the workshop and developed a lesson plan to teach that topic to their students. All lessons are correlated to education standards, but since these teachers are from all over the United States, their standards correlations are for their home state.
Ocean Observing Systems (OOS) Summer Teacher Institute – August 11-15, 2008
This Institute was offered by COSEE-West to middle and high school classroom teachers to show them the cutting edge technology of and data collected by ocean observing systems. Ocean researchers and COSEE-West staff provided content information about OOS and phenomena recorded by OOS instruments through lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on activities to help them gain a better understanding of the science concepts, the way data are recorded, and how to access and use these data. Some of the OOS instruments discussed include satellites, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), and moorings and buoys.
The following lessons were developed by middle and high school teachers who participated in this week-long workshop. Each teacher chose a topic that interested them during the workshop and developed a lesson plan to teach that topic to their students.
The teachers will test the lesson plans in their classrooms during the 2008-2009 academic year, so the files below may be updated after the classroom trial runs!
• How Does Latitude Corrolate with Sea Surface and Air Temperature?
• Predicting Surface Temperature Change
• SCCOOS Lesson Plans for 6th Grade: The Earth’s Temperature Zones, The Ocean Is All Around Us, Local Weather and the Ocean, The Earth’s Hydrosphere, Surface Circulation of the North Atlantic: A Model, Exploring Ocean Currents, Temperature Range Investigation, Horizontal Water Movement,
• Introduction to SCCOOS: SCCOOS webquest
• Fun with SCOOS!
• Using SCCOOS Data to Gain Perspective on the Coastal Environment of Palos Verdes Peninsula and Santa Catalina Island, California
• Computer Lab, Energy in the Earth System (Ocean and Atmospheric Convection)
• The Ocean Shaping Our World
• Currents: California Current, Gulf Stream Current
• ENSO and Loligo Lesson and ENSO and Loligo Data
• What Sinks or Floats in the Ocean?
• Math Lesson Supporting Science Oceanography
• Chesapeake Bay related lessons: Globe Toss, Annual Freshwater Inflow to the Bay Data Activity, Quiz, Worksheet
COSEE-West will offer another OOS Workshop in August 2009. We will post more information about this on the COSEE-West “Teacher Workshops” webpage soon.
Introduction to Marine Science Workshop - June 23-27, 2008
This Workshop was offered by COSEE-West and hosted by the new Marine Science Academy at Marina del Rey Middle School. Staff from UCLA and USC provided science content information through lectures and related hands-on, integrative activities. Presentations were geared toward grades 6, 7, and 8. However, they can be modified for use in elementary and high school classes. Broad topics presented: Plate Tectonics and Earth’s Structure, Shaping Earth’s Surface, Earth’s Oceans and Atmosphere, Marine Ecology, Earth and Life History.
The following lessons were developed by (mostly) middle school teachers of various subjects who participated in this week-long workshop. Each teacher chose a topic that interested them during the workshop and developed a lesson plan to teach that topic to their students.
The teachers will test the lesson plans in their classrooms during the 2008-2009 academic year, so the files below may be updated after the classroom trial runs!
COSEE-West will offer another Marine Science Workshop in June 2009. The next workshop will focus on 7th grade science content topics. We will post more information about this on the COSEE-West Teacher Workshops webpage soon. |
