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TOPIC-TITLE COAST Web Site Quiz AUTHOR STARBORD GRADE SUITABILITY High School SCOPE All classes

Sequence Students should be familiar with the Internet. < < go top

Background Summary This lesson is an designed to be used as an introduction to the COAST web site. Questions involve each component of the web site and will familiarize the students with the types of information available to them through COAST. < < go top Objectives Students will work in groups to answer questions using information found on the COAST web site pages. Students will become familiar with the information found on the COAST web site by completing the questions in the quiz. Students will recognize the variety of information related to the study of oceanography and coastal processes education. < < go top Materials Computer(s) with access to the World Wide Web Print or digital copies of the COAST web site quiz < < go top Activity The following questions are designed to help students learn to navigate the COAST web site. Divide the students into teams and ask them to answer the questions below. As part of their answer, ask the teams to tell where on the web site they found the information. When all the teams have completed the assignment, go over the answers and show where they can be found on the web site. Download this document as a Microsoft Word document Windows Version if you would like to present these questions in the form of a word processing file. Have the students access the file and record their answers using a computer. Students will then be able to correct their answers during the class discussion and print out corrected copies for each team member. More advanced questions are listed as possible extensions at the end. 1.      What are the three partner organizations in the COAST Consortium?   A. B. C.   2.      What are the six subject areas for elementary and middle school activities in the Operation Pathfinder Resource Guide?   A. B. C. D. E. F.   3.      Name the two content areas covered by the visualization modules, and the four divisions under each of these areas.   A. 1. 2. 3. 4.   B. 1. 2. 3. 4.   4.      Why do you think the site authors divided the two content areas covered under question 3 as they did?   5.      What is different about taxonomic and ecologic classification systems?   6.      Many physical features of animals can be linked to what two components of survival?   A. B.   7.      Where is the melon located on a dolphin’s body?   8.      What is a dolphin’s tail fluke and what purpose does one serve?   A. B.   9.      What is the scientific name for dolphins?   10. Is a bottlenose dolphin faster or slower than the average man is? Is a killer whale faster or slower than the bottlenose dolphin?   A. B.   11. What three species of sharks are especially dangerous to dolphins?   A. B. C.   12. Name three reasons men have hunted dolphins.   A. B. C.   13. Which is closer to the size of the average man, the dusky dolphin or the spinner dolphin?   14. Do melon-headed whales eat squid?   15. What are the roots of taxonomy?   16. “King Phillip, come out for goodness sake” is a mnemonic device used to teach the stepwise divisions within the taxonomic classification system. Why?   17. At approximately what date did the history of systematizing biological knowledge begin?   18. Name the four primary features of deep ocean basins.   A. B. C. D.   19. Where is the Sunda Shelf located?   20. Would you be most likely to find a volcano in the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean? Why?   21. What projection system options does the user have when using the Bathymetry Modeler?   A. B. C. D   22. Give two reasons why physical oceanographers feel their job is important.   A. B.   23. Define detritivores and visualization.   A. B.   24. Maps convey four major characteristics of the earth:   A. B. C. D.   25. What is the difference between a map and a chart?   26. Why is piloting a dangerous from of navigation?   27. Explain how a precise numerical designation can be assigned to any place on earth.   28. How are Siberia, the Aleutian Islands, the Fiji Islands, and New Zealand related to the international date line?   29. What does the acronym STARBORD stand for?   30. Where are the participants’ web pages located for the 1998 and 1999 STARBORD workshops?   < < go top Possible Extension Have the students open the saved text version of the VRML file from step 2 above. Have them try the following: Determine if there is a relationship between a dolphin's size, habitat, and speed. For example, are smaller dolphins always faster? Does a dolphin's habitat seem to affect its size? Locate on the COAST web site the classification system of the ancient Chinese that divided animals into 15 categories. Hypothesize why the ancient Chinese might have determined the categories that they did. Develop a set of math problems that involve nautical and statute miles and are appropriate for your grade level. Use the information found on the COAST web site and "hide" treasure in the ocean. Create a map with directions to the treasure without explicitly telling where it is hidden. Challenge your classmates to locate its location using the information you provide. Remember that with today's technology items can be brought up from the ocean floor within certain limitations. Create questions using the information found on the web site and develop some type of game format that would utilize these student-generated questions. < < go top Teacher Evaluation This activity is not designed to be graded. Its primary purpose is to provide students and opportunity to become familiar with the information on the COAST web site available for their use. Should a teacher desire to use the quiz as an assignment, assessment can be made by assigning a numerical grade for the number of correct answers and also for the depth of thought a group puts into answers that are not specifically spelled out in the text of the web site. Cooperation by group members can also be evaluated as they work to complete this task. < < go top