Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Investigating Convection Currents

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine how differences in the temperature and salinity of the water help create ocean currents. They perform an experiment which shows how temperature affects the circulation of ocean water.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Just How DO Those Plates Move?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners experiment with water, temperature and paper to explore how convection currents occur and how they are used to explain the movement of the Earth's plates.