Convection...what?? - A short tutorial on convection currents

This is a collaborative video produced by the team of Michelle Ayala, Stephanie Carrasco, Travis Patocka, Hanna Pool and Dan Perez. This project was meant to be curriculum specific and student centered. The topic is one that students often have difficulty understanding but that is vital to a complete understanding of many Earth Science topics. Convection currents are found in ocean and wind currents, as forces that drive the weather, land and sea breezes and on a much larger scale, the weather. Helping students develop an understanding of convection currents on a small scale using real-life examples then helps them to apply the concept on a much larger, global scale.