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Teacher Activities: Building Background

Links to Students’ Past Experience: Discussions relating to their knowledge of the 4 major oceans, their size and

location, their features, and the technology we use to study the ocean ﬂoor. Discuss students trips to the ocean and

their knowledge of it’s features and contents. Why is the ocean blue?

Teacher links to Prior Learning: We’ve brieﬂy learned about oceanography in Ch 1. Discuss the fact that the ﬂoor of

the ocean is similar to that of the ﬂoor of the continents including plate shifts and other features we’ve discussed.

Movement of the ocean tides due to atmospheric changes.

Key vocabulary:

oceanography

bathymetry

sonar

submersible

continental margin

continental shelf

continental slope

submarine canyon

turbidity current

continental rise

ocean basin ﬂoor

abyssal plains

seamounts

mid-ocean ridge

seaﬂoor spreading

terrigenous sediment

biogenous sediment

calcareous ooze

siliceous ooze

hydrogenous sediment

Comprehensible Input

This component comprises some of the features that make SIOP instruction different from “just good instruction.”

Check those that apply and describe below. Include those selected to the lesson sequence section below.

_x_Speech appropriate for students’ proﬁciency level

_x_Clear explanation of academic task

_x_Techniques used to make content concepts clear for:

1. Beginning

2. Early Intermediate

3. Intermediate

4. Early Advanced

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