Here you will find resources to help educators and their students to map variations in temperature and precipitation n the US during the 1982-1983 El Nino Event; Understand that weather changes caused by this El Nino event had global consequences; determine if the variation caused by El Nino occurred in your own state; predict what effect a new El Nino event might have on your state's agriculture.

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students to understand how sea surface temperatures vary during an El Nino event understand how to use data on sea surface temperatures to make inferences about changes in ocean circulation; use remote-sensing data to determine the extent and duration of the 1997 El Nino event.

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students to understand the general paths of surface ocean currents; determine the average speed of surface ocean currents in the Pacific Ocean; understand how the winds drive surface ocean circulation; understand how surface ocean circulation patterns change during an El Nino event; understand how ocean circulation can influence climate; understand how the Coriolis effect influences ocean circulation patterns.

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students to understand how water temperature affects circulation within a body of water; understand how salinity affects circulation within a body of water; understand the meanings of ocean currents and water mass; understand the nature and causes of water circulation in the deep ocean; investigate convection cells and their relationship to deep ocean circulation.

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students to understand the effect of the wind on the movement of water at the ocean surface; understand the effect of the Coriolis force on the movement of objects or materials when they are observed in a rotating system; learn why the ocean is layered by the temperature and density; describe the meaning of pycnocline and thermocline in your own words.

Here you will find storylines for EarthComm: Earth's Fluid Spheres- Oceans Storylines

Here you will find corrections to the 2001 version of the Earth's Fluid Spheres EarthComm textbook.

Here you will find links to a variety of other websites that will help deepen your understanding of content and prepare you to understand Oceans and Your Community.

Here you will find links to a variety of other websites that will help deepen your understanding of content and prepare you for the EarthComm: Earth's Fluid Sphere's module