Can you rearrange these letters to create

the names of the 5 oceans?

Lctinacta Atlantic Ocean 106.5 million km2
(2nd)
Ritcac Arctic Ocean

Aidnin Indian Ocean 14.06 million km2 (5th)

Fapcici Pacific Ocean

70.56 km2 (3rd)

osuethnr Southern Ocean

Challenge – Put them in order of size (largest to smallest).
 The importance of oceans
Learning objective: To be able to explain how the earths oceans
are important and be able to justify the most important factor for
the importance of oceans.
Lesson outcomes:

To understand why the oceans are important for all life on Earth.

To be able to assess what makes the earths oceans important and

explain why

To create a illustration emphasising the importance of the oceans

 Tier 2 Vocabulary: Intrinsic value

Text The intrinsic value of the oceans

Subject Everything we study in geography has intrinsic value, and by
understanding this we can make better more thoughtful judgements.

Teacher The world around me including all of you, have intrinsic value.

You

Intrinsic value –
The value that that thing has “in itself,” or “for its own
sake,” or “as such,” or “in its own right.
Why do you think oceans
are important?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycRNlV5ylCc
I The oceans importance – you decide!

ZTasks:
1. Cut out the 9 reasons for the
importance of oceans and create a
diamond 9. The top one will be the one
you think is the most important about
oceans and the bottom will be the one
you think is least important thing about
oceans.
2. Explain why and how you have
chosen the most and least important.

Challenge – categorise the reasons into social, environmental and

social (some can be more than 1 as long as you can justify why!)
 TIME TO
GET Intrinsic Value – Plant species
looks pretty and has providing oxygen
CREATIVE! value for just being
there
•Your job is to create an A5 poster
highlighting the importance of the
oceans! (make it look nice, as this
will be stuck in your books as the
beginning of the oceans topic!)

•You can draw anything we have

discussed today in terms of why
oceans are important. I would
suggest choosing 2 or 3 to properly
emphasize the importance of oceans.
Fish living of the ocean
and providing food for us