Middle School Science Lessons

I love when we have an opportunity to collect real-time data in class, as part of our unit on tides, we used NOAA’s website (link) to learn how to find real-time tide information, to learn how to read tide graphs and charts, and to find water temperatures for 10 different stations and compare their data. The kids enjoyed picking their own cities and sharing their findings.

Objectives: students will find real-time tide data, learn how to read tide graphs and charts, and to find water temperatures for 10 different stations and compare data

Lesson Resources:

• Tides Notes  – this is a shared Google Slide that gives some basic information on tides and then it goes into a step-by-step tutorial on how to use the NOAA website to collect information.
• NOAA Tides Website – real time tide data
• Data Collection worksheet (Google Doc) – students will record and analyze their data

updated 4/12/25