Which Way is North?
This lesson has students use an interactive that will demonstrate how a compass reacts to Earth’s magnetic field at different…
Where the Pacific, Cocos, and Nazca Meet
In this lesson, students will calculate rates of sea floor spreading using magnetic anomaly data taken from sediment cores collected…
Measuring Up: The Story of Rock Veins
This lesson is focused on the types and formation of rock veins that are found in ocean sediment cores. Part…
Mapping an Underwater Volcano
This lesson has students analyze bathymetric maps (comparing them to topographic maps) to understand how scientists study underwater volcanoes at…
Layer by Layer: Ocean Sediment Reveals Earth’s Past Climates
First, students will use a self-created map of important events in a year of their own life as an analogy…
The Impression of Impact Craters
In this lesson, students investigate meteorite impact craters and analyze evidence for the K/Pg (formerly known as K/T) boundary impact…
Past Climates Give a Glimpse into Earth’s Future
In this lesson, students analyze ocean sediment cores to describe changes in sediment color, origin, magnetic susceptibility, and calcium carbonate…
Getting Salty
This lesson focuses on how saltwater forms. Students will observe a model to describe how salt enters water sources and…
Eons in a Grain
This lesson has students analyze fossil evidence to provide context for an ocean sediment core relative to the geologic time…
Drilling into Deep Time: Unraveling Earth’s Complex History with Ocean Cores
Students will be able to make observations and inferences about the different organisms found within the layers of sediment cores…