Type: Investigation
Theme: Nature
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Learning Target: Students will look for relationships between the moon, sun, geography, and tides.
https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/635eefda0f66b56f9fc03475
Teachers: You will need to practice importing data from NOAA Tide Predictions into Excel or another spreadsheet.
Demonstrate how scientists and mathematicians predict tides using the sum of 37 cosine waves: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/vhqyd9vyhp