Oceanography Transparencies & Visuals

Supplement your current curriculum with visual resources that will help students' learn about seafloor spreading, ocean landforms, and tides. Use the printable illustrations, maps, and digrams below as overhead transparencies or handouts for your classroom. These oceanography resources will enhance your lesson plans for earth science.

Ocean Transparencies The Ocean Tides This printable on ocean tides illustrates the effects of the moon's gravitational pull on Earth's water. The Ocean Floor Identify ocean landforms, including guyots and trenches, with this labeled diagram of the sea floor. Seafloor Spreading Diagram Use this labeled diagram to help students visualize the geologic structures and geothermal activity involved in seafloor spreading. Tectonic Plates Identify tectonic plates around the world with this map. Use this printable to further students' understanding of geology, geophysics, and oceanography. More Science Transparencies

Ocean Visuals Oceans Map Test students' knowledge of world oceans with this blank map. Seafloor Spreading Map This map documents evidence that supports the seafloor spreading theory. More Science Visuals Related Resources Oceans – Teacher Resources Browse our resources about oceans to find great lessons and printables for grades K-12. Teach your students about animals, tsunamis, seashore ecology, and much more with these activities! Earth Science Teacher Resources Our earth science printables, lessons, and activities will excite and motivate your students to become more active participants in their world. Teach them about fossils, tsunamis, sediments, and more!

December Events

Find educational resources for every day in December. Fill your December lessons with activities for Hanukkah (Dec. 21 -- Sundown), Winter Solstice (Dec. 21), Christmas (Dec. 25), Kwanzaa (Dec. 26), New Year's Eve (Dec. 31), Universal Human Rights Month (Dec.), World AIDS Month (Dec.).

Rulers & Number Lines

Take a look at our collection of printable rulers and protractors and number lines and place-value charts.

Letter-Writing Activities

Develop students' composition skills with these printables and activities. Students will learn about basic letter formats and practice writing formal, persuasive, and friendly letters.

Walden Forums

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2009 Educators' Calendar

There's something worth celebrating every day! Find fun and educationally relevant holidays, events, and celebrations for each day of the year.

Printable Maps

Enrich your lessons with our collection of printable world maps depicting continents, countries, capitals, political boundaries, lines of longitude and latitude, climate zones, oceans, land forms, and more. Plus, browse our collection of Unites States maps.

Daily Printables

Add a TeacherVision widget to your blog, personalized homepage (such as iGoogle or Pageflakes), or social networking sites (such as Facebook). Our widgets feature a different fifth-grade language arts printable or fourth-grade math printable for each day of the year.