THE GLOBE PROGRAMURL: http://www.globe.gov/projects

Teacher: Borden Hasiuk

Yanbu International SchoolHigh School Science

This Site Contains Four

“Earth System Science Projects”

(ESSPs):

1.Seasons & Biomes2.Carbon Cycle3.Watershed Dynamics4.Flexe (From Local to Extreme Environments)

MARINE BIOLOGY

Being in the “Marine Biology Class” you will chose Project 4 Flexe (From Local to Extreme Environments)

FROM LOCAL

ENVIRONMENT

TO AN EXTREME

ENVIRONMENT

Project 4 From Local to Extreme Environments (FLEXE), is a deep ocean project led by Pennsylvania State University in partnership with RIDGE and InterRIDGE scientists.

DIRECTIONSGo to the internet and get on to the site,

URL: http://www.globe.gov/projects

Choose: Project 4 Flexe (From Local to Extreme Environments)

Choose drop down menu “For Students” and pick “Research Projects” then pick “Student Investigations”

This page should be titled “Plan a student research project”

Find and choose “Classroom activities”This new page will be titled

“Investigation Activities” .Scroll down until you find the gray box

titled “Looking at Data’ from the Teacher's Guide” and find “Hydrology” in that section.

HydrologyChoose one of the following topics to do your experiment on:(I f you choose the same topic as other students, you may work together with them as a group )

Water Temperature pH AlkalinityElectrical

ConductivityDissolved OxygenNitrateSalinityWater Transparency

EXPERIMENTRead through the material presented.Design an experiment on your topic

which you will do during our field trip to the Red Sea on 2008 11 20, Thursday:You must have Part A of the Lab Report

completed by 2008 11 11, Tuesday.You will do the actual experiment, Part B,

during our field trip to the Red Sea on 2008 11 20, Thursday.

You must complete Part C of you Lab Report and turn it in by 2008 11 24, Monday.

Have

Fun!