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Article: The Gulf Stream and Density of Fluids.
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- The Science Teacher
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Byline: Erich Landstrom
A few kilometers from the shores of Palm Beach County, Florida, the Gulf Stream current-a remarkable "river" within an ocean-makes its closest approach to land. The current's journey across the Atlantic Ocean connects southeast Florida and southwest Great Britain as it streams steadily north at speeds of 97 km a day; moving 100 times as much water as all the rivers on Earth (Perlman 2005). To help my ninth-grade Integrated Science students understand why and how the Gulf Stream flows, I use the 5E constructivist instructional model-Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate (Bybee 1997)-to analyze a single problem: Why wasn't the ...
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