Ocean Basins & Coasts

Question of the day: What are Ocean Basins ? What are coasts?

Answer: Any body of water that covers the earth with seawater. These bodies of water actually cover 71% of the Earth's surface. And of that water, about 96% of that water is held within our oceans. Wow! that's a lot of water !

Answer: A coast is the boundary where land meets water. Beaches are all coasts!

coasts/ basins/ sea life

Ocean Basin lesson/ guide

I will use this powerpoint as a lesson guide for the topic. And I will cover the general information of coasts, basins, and what types of ecosystems basins contain.

Learning objectives

  • Students will understand what ocean basins are

  • Students will be able to identify all five major basins

  • Students will be able to know the main characteristics of the contents that live within these basins.

  • students will be able to identify/ understand what coasts are

Lesson worksheet

for the students

Lesson worksheet key

answer key to the assignment

Lesson sources

Video for worksheet and additional information

Video for worksheet

video for ocean layers lab

Ocean layers lab

Let's make our own oceans in a jar together !!