World Ocean Day 2021

June 8th is World Ocean Day. This lesson gives a lovely introduction to what the Oceans are. It includes 8 slides (10 in total) that explains;


The Hydrosphere,
Lists the oceans and the seven seas
The difference between seas and oceans
How oceans move (currents)
Ocean Zones
The last slides have suggestions for further exploring oceans with a slide listing concerns and oceans in popular culture ( movies and books).


The Homework page (with answers) has some one-line questions as well as ‘research time’ questions this can be used in the classroom too, of course, to investigate topics such as: further
Deepsea Challenger expedition
The Earths circulatory system
Coriolis Force