Ocean Environment and Systems

by It's Science

Price: 350 points or $3.5 USD

Subjects: lifeScience,earthAndSpaceScience

Grades: 4,5,6,7

Description: Have students review the wonders of ocean systems in your classroom with this engaging and comprehensive activity! Aligned with Virginia Science SOL 4.7, this product offers an interactive way for students to check their knowledge of the ocean environment and systems. From identifying ocean topography like trenches, continental shelf, slope, and rise to testing their understanding of how salinity and temperature change with depth and environmental conditions and more. Students will reinforce their understanding of our planet’s vast marine systems. This Boom Card product includes colorful and detailed illustrations to help students visualize each content area. Whether used as a group activity or independent practice, this resource will engage your students while reinforcing key concepts about the dynamic and diverse world beneath the waves. What this 36-slide Boom Card deck covers? ✨ sea floor features (continental shelf, slope, rise abyssal plain, trench, midocean ridge) ✨ factors affecting ocean salinity ✨ distinguishing factors that create tides and currents ✨ marine food webs ✨ organism to niche and depth ✨ light penetration zones ✨ temperature variations ✨ erosion, runoff, sediment ✨ phytoplankton vs zooplankton ✨ photosynthesis (phytoplankton)