Tides Lessonplan Ideas - Pagoo Charlotte Mason Homeschooling

• Tides Lessonplan Ideas - Pagoo Charlotte Mason Homeschoolinginspired by Charlotte Mason Homeschooling for our Living Books Curriculum
  
  
  
  Websites to Research
  • What are Tides
  • http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/tides01_intro.html
  Answer these questions
  
  

  1. What is a basic definition of a tide? Where do tidal waves originate, and where do they end?
  2. What is a high tide? What is a low tide?
  3. What is tidal range? What is a tidal current?
  4. Compare and contrast a flood and ebb current. When are they strong? When are they weak?
  5. How do tidal currents perform in the open ocean? How do they perform near the entrances to estuaries?
  
  
  • What causes Tides
    http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/tides02_cause.html
  1. Tides are caused by the gravitational attraction of what two celestial bodies?
  2. What does Newton’s law of universal gravitational state?
  3. Which parameter has a greater effect on tidal forces on Earth?
  4. Which celestial body has a greater effect on tidal forces on Earth? How is this possible? Compare and contrast the masses and distance of the Earth to the moon and sun.
  
  VIDEOS
  
  
  
  STORM SURGE VIDEO
  http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/video/stormsurge.mov
  
  
  TIDES EXPLAINED
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN2RM5wa1ek
  
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYKDnyZLif4&feature=related
  
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTQ6ciHENgI&feature=related
  
  
  
  IN DEPTH LEVELS AND REVIEW QUESTIONS
  
  
• Tides and Water Levels
  http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/tides02_cause.html
• Changing Angles and Changing Tides
  http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/tides04_angle.html
• Frequency of Tides
  http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/tides05_lunarday.html

Websites to Research

• Gravity, Inertia, and the Two Bulges

  http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/tides03_gravity.html

QUESTIONS TO ANSWER

1. What is inertia?
2. How does the moon create a bulge?
3. What causes a bulge to be created on the opposite side of the Earth or the “far side” from the moon?

• Changing Angles and Changing Tides
  http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/tides04_angle.html

QUESTIONS TO ANSWER

1. Describe how changes in the relative positions of the moon and sun change in relation to the Earth?
2. At what point is the sun at its minimum declination and its maximum declination?

• Frequency of Tides
  http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/lessons/tides_tutorial.pdf
  
  QUESTIONS TO ANSWER

1. Compare and contrast a solar and lunar day. How long is a lunar day?
2. Why do most coastal areas experience two high tides and two low tides?
3. How long does it take for high tide to occur? How long is the time between low and high tide?