Oceans

=OCEANS: Steam boats, Plankton, Hydrothermal Vents and LOGO.= Explore steamships through Victorian inventor Brunel and the ghostly stories attached to //SS Great Eastern//. Make a working steam boat out of everyday junk. Dip into the extraordinary world of plankton and discover the stunning marine life drawings of **[|Ernst Haeckel]**. Design and make a plankton or construct a radiolarioan and enter the Sparkling Seas quiz to learn about bioluminescence.

The **LOGO LINK**: Take control of your computer and unravel the mysteries of hydrothermal vents.



=Steam Machine Physics and Putt Putt Boats=
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[|Click here]

 * [[image:P1080592-2.JPG]] || ===Visit our Steam Boat Workshop===

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[|Discover the science] behind this amazing little boat.

 * [[image:steamship.gif width="353" height="219"]] || ===Brunel's Great Eastern, 1858===

Cursed and haunted!
[|Read more...] ||

=__Plankton__=



Visit this stunning site about plankton [|Click here]

 * [[image:plankton9.jpg width="228" height="208"]]
 * Obelia** || [[image:barnacle.jpg width="230" height="206"]]
 * Barnacle larva** || [[image:polych.jpg width="205" height="213"]]
 * Bristle worm** ||
 * [[image:comb_jellies.jpg width="207" height="255"]]
 * Comb Jellyfish** || [[image:sea_squirt.jpg width="231" height="243"]]
 * Sea Squirt egg** || [[image:starfish_larva.jpg width="204" height="250"]]
 * Starfish larva** ||

=Room 4's Plankton Production Line:=

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=Sparkling Seas: Bioluminescence=


 * A bioluminescent red tide showing brightly glowing, crashing waves full of dinoflagellate plankton.**

Explore [|this site] full of amazing photographs of bioluminescent organisms.
The underside of a deep sea fish** || ||
 * **[[image:myctophid_bl_600.jpg width="240" height="205"]]
 * Dinoflagellates** ||

=The Most Famous Wave in the World=



What causes waves? Why is the sea salty? Why is the ocean blue? [|Click here]
= = =__Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents__=


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then test your knowledge with some interactive quizzes. Follow the links.

 * [[image:logo_desktop_icon.gif]] || ===Take control of your computer and map a hydrothermal vent.===

Teach yourself LOGO
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 * [[image:P1080625-1.JPG width="353" height="225" caption="Hydrothermal vent mapping board"]] || [[image:P1080631-1.JPG caption="Laying the mapping trail"]] ||
 * [[image:P1080640-1.JPG width="339" height="236" caption="Writing the LOGO program"]] || [[image:P1080634-1.JPG width="320" height="235" caption="Running the LOGO program on the computer"]] ||

=Art Forms in Nature: Microscopic life in the Ocean=


 * [[image:haeckel13.jpg width="153" height="235"]] || ==Ernst Haeckel (1843 -1919)==

German Scientist
Haeckel travelled far and wide with his sketchpad, watercolours and microscope. In 1873 he was part of the Challenger Expedition to explore the deep-sea world.It was this expedition that began the field of **oceanography**.One of his earliest works was an atlas of **radiolarians** - tiny single-celled animals with exquisite shells. To see examples of his drawings **[|click here]** ||

drawings from his scientific expeditions. ||
 * [[image:haeckel10.jpg width="320" height="417"]] || [[image:P1070891-1.JPG]]
 * In the Library:** A collection of Haeckel's

Radiolaria are minute creatures less than 1/2000cm across. Their beautiful shells are perforated with holes and are made of silica. Silica is the most common mineral on earth and dissolves into the oceans from rocks. Silica is very hard and glassy. We find lots of silica in the sand at the beach.The radiolarian's shell is protected by little spikes (spicules)which help to make it float in the ocean. Radiolaria have been in the ocean since Pre-cambrian times - 5 billion - 570 million years ago. || ||
 * ==Radiolaria==