ACTIVITY - A WATERED DOWN TOPOGRAPHIC MAP
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A Watered Down Topographic Map - NOAA Ocean Explorer 
Lesson PlanSummary
Students create scaled models of the sea-floor features and then generate bathymetric maps based on their models. This activity helps illustrate various sea floor topographic features and shows students how these features are translated into two-dimensional bathymetric maps.
Concept: Basins and features
There is one ocean with many basins and features shaped by the movement of the earth
There is one ocean with many basins and features shaped by the movement of the earth
National Science Education Standards
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K-12 Unifying Concepts and Processes
Systems, order, and organization
Evidence, models, and explanation
9-12 A Science as Inquiry
Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
Understandings about scientific inquiry
9-12 D Earth and Space Science
Origin and evolution of the earth system
9-12 G History and Nature of Science
Nature of scientific knowledge
Ocean Literacy Essential Principles (PDF booklet): 1. The Earth has one big ocean with many features (concepts a, b)
Life on an Ocean Planet text reference (book link): Chapter 3 Theories of the Origin of Life 3:18-20
Chapter 8 The Nature of Water 8:2-5
Chapter 13 A Revolution in Science: The Theory of Plate Tectonics 13:1-29
(click a standard to show activities that meet it)
K-12 Unifying Concepts and Processes
Systems, order, and organization
Evidence, models, and explanation
9-12 A Science as Inquiry
Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
Understandings about scientific inquiry
9-12 D Earth and Space Science
Origin and evolution of the earth system
9-12 G History and Nature of Science
Nature of scientific knowledge
Ocean Literacy Essential Principles (PDF booklet): 1. The Earth has one big ocean with many features (concepts a, b)
Life on an Ocean Planet text reference (book link): Chapter 3 Theories of the Origin of Life 3:18-20
Chapter 8 The Nature of Water 8:2-5
Chapter 13 A Revolution in Science: The Theory of Plate Tectonics 13:1-29
75 mins
