Articles on Oceans to Read & Don’t Forget ABEL Practice!

If you signed up to take the ABEL Exam, please don’t forget to do a practice test. As announced, the test is tomorrow. We will do it in the afternoon.

Congratulations to Sylvia who visited 45 nature places and won our overall NATURE CHALLENGE! Thank you, too, to Anisha, Michael, Peter, Kane, Patricia, and Emily who all made a great effort and submitted nature slide shows of their adventures. Thank you for participating! Prizes were handed out in class. It was nice to see people enjoying the frisbees on the park this afternoon!

Here are some articles and websites to check out as we talk about oceans:

NASA’s Climate Change Kids – Oceans

World Wildlife Federation – Climate Change

Oceana Canada

Nature Conservancy Oceans & Coasts

PBS Oceans of Acid

Convection Currents Demonstration — How the currents work!

National Ocean Service – What does an oceanographer do?

National Ocean Service – Ocean Facts

The Ocean Clean Up

NASA Garbage Patch Data

What really happens to the plastic you throw away – TED Talks

Is Sea Level Rising? Yes.

Also, there are lots of songbirds and nature out there to watch! Go to these sites to check them out and get out in nature! 

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Vote for Vancouver’s Official City Bird

iNaturalist.org – Record species you find and be part of a community of scientists!

Observe Nature with iNaturalist – Tells How it Works

How to use a compass

Go back to the Lower Seymour Watershed by yourself – here’s a map!

Have a good night,

Ms. D