DOWNEASTER ALEXA:
We can learn a great deal about the sea, our planet and its people by listening to songs about ships and the sea. The sea has captured the human imagination and stirred its observers to art, literature and song. People across the centuries have recorded their feelings about the sea through these art...
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| Summary: | We can learn a great deal about the sea, our planet and its people by listening to songs about ships and the sea. The sea has captured the human imagination and stirred its observers to art, literature and song. People across the centuries have recorded their feelings about the sea through these art forms. You may recall looking at Winslow homer’s paintings, or reading Island of the Blue Dolphins, or listening to the ballad that tells of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” In this set of activities we will examine a 1990 song by Billy Joel, exploring its meaning for the singer and its ability to reveal to listeners some information about humans and environmental change. The maps, fisheries data, and sea temperature information were provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to give you an idea of the variety of important subjects this agency studies and how all the information must be considered at once when important issues are addressed. Objectives: When you have completed this set of activities, you should be able to: 1. describe a major fishery of the North Atlantic; 2. interpret the offshore characteristics of an area using a bathymetric chart; 3. identify human and natural environmental reasons for changes in fish catch; and 4. analyze the relationship of global environmental changes to fish population changes. |
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