How are you connected to the ocean?
Take two breaths.
One came from the ocean.
It’s true! Roughly half of the oxygen we breathe is produced by phytoplankton, tiny single-celled plants that live in the sea. That fact alone means that you – and all life on Earth – depend on the ocean for survival every minute of every day. In fact, no matter [...]
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I Wonder About the Inside of Earth
For weeks we’ve been talking about the surface of Earth, like that it’s broken up into pieces called plates. And these plates move around, pushed or pulled by currents in the mantle, whatever a mantle is. Then there’s magma or lava coming out of volcanoes is that the Earth spilling out its guts?
So I wonder. [...]
Water Cycle Inquiry
While some of you are working on your creative version of the water cycle song (dance?), which we’ll post here, we are moving on and looking more closely at the mechanisms of the water cycle.
The basics of the water cycle, those marked in red, should be familiar to most students. But how well do you [...]
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