Mar 27 2012
*Note: Since I forgot to ask for a scribe, this is a guest post by EvanR from last year from a similar lesson. A nice, concise post with links to more info. It is based on this 12 minute video about one of the first voyages to document the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Some scientists [...]
Mar 06 2012
Kinda weird to discuss fishing/aquaculture in an agriculture unit? Well, we do get some calories from the water so yes! Today we watched a good bit of the PBS documentary Empty Oceans, Empty Nets. Feel free to click around the movie web site if you want want to explore the issues further. What were the [...]
Oct 25 2011
One of the parents that organized the recent Global Day just shared this with me. I thought it fit to share with you guys since we have been learning about ocean currents this unit. The clockwise flow of the gyre in the north pacific is driving debris from the Japanese tsunami towards our west coast… [...]
Oct 15 2011
In class Friday, we talked about the fifth factor that helps determine climate: Ocean currents. These ocean currents are effected by temperature, gravity, prevailing winds, the Coriolis Effect, and the distribution of continents. The resulting phenomena are gyres, upwelling, thermo haline circulation, heat transportation across the globe, and ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation. Gyres: Gyres [...]
