UPWELLING CASE STUDY

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UPWELLING CASE STUDY

• Kevin Vincent
• Basehor-Linwood High School
• Basehor, KS

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Pre Activity Prep

• Introduction and Activity broken into 2 80 min
  blocks
• Reserved mobile computer lab
• Helpful with projector
• Determined necessary
• Prior knowledge

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Introduction to Ocean

• Gave students time to navigate the MBARI website
  and investigate current research projects being
  worked on.
• Gave students introductory questions guiding them
  to the necessary information to perform case
  study
• What is an upwelling
• What is El Nino
• How are they related
• Describe the ideal habitat that a sardine would
  thrive
• Why does any of this matter to residents of Kansas

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Case Study

• Groups of 2 (each with computer)
• Very little verbal direction
• Notes describing thoughts throughout the activity
• Discussion Questions

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Activity Wrap-up

• Designed questions to assess and have students
  reflect on activity
• What season did the upwelling occur?
• What data leads you to this conclusion?

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Strengths of Activity

• Exciting for students
• Includes cross-curricular aspects (geography,
  technology, math, etc)
• Requires out-of-the-box thinking
• Uses Real scientific data
• Well laid out
• Forces students to use valuable science skills
• Easily modifiable

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Suggestions to Improve

• Teacher Info section
• Time guideline
• Modifications by other teachers
• Helpful topics for students to be familiar with
• Wrap up questions
• Questions to assess student comprehension
• Post activity wrap-up
• Now that a scientist has this data what would
  they do with it?

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Other Activities

• Deep Sea Sort
• Excellent pictures
• Requires careful planning to classify
• Developed excellent class discussion