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    Teacher: Becca Farrell Date: 11/10/2014 Subject: Science Grade: 5 Time Frame: 11:20-11:55 The lesson objective is for students to observe and understand how temperature and salinity affect ocean currents. Becca will review currents and their causes, then demonstrate through experiments how temperature and salinity impact density and currents, with warm/saltwater sinking and cold/freshwater rising. Students will observe, record hypotheses, discuss results, and draw conclusions to reinforce their understanding of how these factors influence ocean circulation.

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    Teacher: Becca Farrell Date: 11/10/2014 Subject: Science Grade: 5 Time Frame: 11:20-11:55 The lesson objective is for students to observe and understand how temperature and salinity affect ocean currents. Becca will review currents and their causes, then demonstrate through experiments how temperature and salinity impact density and currents, with warm/saltwater sinking and cold/freshwater rising. Students will observe, record hypotheses, discuss results, and draw conclusions to reinforce their understanding of how these factors influence ocean circulation.

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    Teacher: Becca Farrell Date: 11/10/2014 Subject: Science Grade: 5 Time Frame: 11:20-11:55 The lesson objective is for students to observe and understand how temperature and salinity affect ocean currents. Becca will review currents and their causes, then demonstrate through experiments how temperature and salinity impact density and currents, with warm/saltwater sinking and cold/freshwater rising. Students will observe, record hypotheses, discuss results, and draw conclusions to reinforce their understanding of how these factors influence ocean circulation.

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    Teacher: Becca Farrell Date: 11/10/2014 Subject: Science Grade: 5 Time Frame: 11:20-11:55 The lesson objective is for students to observe and understand how temperature and salinity affect ocean currents. Becca will review currents and their causes, then demonstrate through experiments how temperature and salinity impact density and currents, with warm/saltwater sinking and cold/freshwater rising. Students will observe, record hypotheses, discuss results, and draw conclusions to reinforce their understanding of how these factors influence ocean circulation.

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    Teacher: Becca Farrell

    Date: 11/10/2014

    Subject: Science

    Grade: 5
    Time Frame: 11:20-11:55

    Lesson Title: Salinity and Temperature Lab


    Objective: The students will observe and understand how temperature and salinity affect ocean
    currents.
    SOL: 5.6 The student will investigate and understand characteristics of the ocean environment.
    Materials:
    Food coloring
    Ice cubes
    Hot water
    Salt
    Plastic containers
    Small glass bottle
    Procedure:
    I will start by reviewing the previous days lesson about what currents are and what causes
    those currents. I will be looking for responses such as: salinity, temperature, and wind. I
    will have a jar filled with sand and cotton balls to discuss density. This visual display will
    help them have a visual representation of density.
    I will hand out salinity lab discussion questions and clipboards. Students will then come to
    the front of the class and gather around the large table.
    The materials will be set up on the table already. I will have students read the directions,
    and I will explain that the first one we are doing is to talk about how temperature affects
    currents. I will ask, how do you think temperature affects currents?
    Then the first thing I am going to do is place blue ice cube in water. Write down what you
    think will happen when I do this? Then I am going to add hot red water. Write down what
    you think will happen when I do this? I will call on student volunteers to help me with the
    demonstration.
    Then I add the ice cube and then the hot red water. I will have students talk about what is
    happening, and then we will discuss why density is causing the warm water to sink and
    the cold water to rise. I will have students volunteer to share their hypothesis and whether
    it matched the results.
    I will have students answer discussion questions and draw what they saw happen.
    After the temperature demonstration, we will move on to the salinity demonstration. I will
    have student volunteers mix sea salt in a container with blue food coloring. Another
    student volunteer will add red food coloring to the tap water container. Before we add
    these to the plastic container, I will have students document their hypothesis. Students
    will then add both of these glass containers to the large plastic container and observe how
    the higher salinity water will sink and lower salinity water will rise.
    We will then share as a class why this is happening. Students will draw pictures to help

    reinforce what they just learned.


    Differentiation: All students will be able to participate in this activity. This will be a visual
    representation as well as a class discussion to accommodate to multiple learning preferences.
    Students who might struggle with the reasons for why currents were created will be able to
    discuss this with classmates and as questions during the class discussion.
    Assessment: I will collect student lab questions to see what they took away from the lesson. The
    assessment will require students to explain their understanding through drawings and writing.

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