Using Tools to Explore the Changes of the Polar Regions
DESCRIPTION:
The polar regions are extremely dynamic with the ice always changing and flowing in response to forces, including climate change. This session focuses on empowering students with accessible and user-friendly remote sensing tools that allow them to explore, observe, and make hypotheses about our ever-changing world.
Presenters: Margie Turrin, Director of Educational Field Programs and Laurel Zaima, Education and Outreach Coordinator, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Target Audience: Grades 6-12
We acknowledge and appreciate support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) - Greenland Lakes' NSF #OPP-2003464. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
1. Eyes in the Skies - A pdf of the slide deck used in the presentation that can be downloaded for use in the classroom to lead the education activities. View the teacher version with teaching notes.
2. Learning Objectives - NGSS aligned teacher support document for the project. Includes Big Ideas, Learning Objectives, Key Understandings, Essential Questions, Standards, Vocabulary and a step by step walk through of the full activity with links to additional materials and resources.
3. Student Worksheets - Worksheet support for students as they do their data collection from the online tools and images and use these to form and amend overarching hypotheses. Includes both a student version and teacher version.
4. Teacher Answer sheet - Worksheet support for students as they do their data collection from the online tools and images and use these to form and amend overarching hypotheses. Includes both a student version and teacher version.
5. Future Lakes animated gif - The complete animation of the lake propagation up the ice sheet by Amber Leeson that is included in the presentation.
6. Short Glacier Goo movies - Gravity - Collection of short very videos demonstrating the different glacier goo activities: Basal Friction, Channel Friction, Gravity and Gravity2 movies.
7. Short Glacier Goo movies - Gravity 2 - Collection of short very videos demonstrating the different glacier goo activities: Basal Friction, Channel Friction, Gravity and Gravity2 movies.
8. Basal Friction - Collection of short very videos demonstrating the different glacier goo activities: Basal Friction, Channel Friction, Gravity and Gravity2 movies.
9. Channel Friction - Collection of short very videos demonstrating the different glacier goo activities: Basal Friction, Channel Friction, Gravity and Gravity2 movies.
10. Images of Change - The NASA Images of Change gallery features images of different locations on planet Earth, showing change over time periods ranging from centuries to days. Some of these effects are related to climate change, some are not. Some document the effects of urbanization, or the ravage of natural hazards such as fires and floods. All show our planet in a state of flux. This specific link illustrates Helheim Glacier melt in Greenland.
11. The Rise and Fall of Ice Age Glaciers - Turn the clock back 122,000 years, place cameras high over the north and south poles, then hit “record,” and it might look something like this. This new animation from NASA software engineers, based on finely tuned computer models, reveals how massive ice sheets that once sprawled across Canada, Greenland and Antarctica thickened and thinned over time. Their rise and fall keep time with the last great ice age. And they reveal a pattern that continues today: the land surface is still rebounding from the heavy weight of those long-vanished glaciers.
12. Climate Quizzes: The Frozen Poles - NASA’s Global Climate site has many fun interactive quizzes to test your knowledge about several different topics related to climate change, from soil moisture to clouds and precipitation. And one of the quizzes is precisely about the frozen poles of our planet.
Presenters: Margie Turrin, Director of Educational Field Programs and Laurel Zaima, Education and Outreach Coordinator, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Target Audience: Grades 6-12
We acknowledge and appreciate support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) - Greenland Lakes' NSF #OPP-2003464. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
1. Eyes in the Skies - A pdf of the slide deck used in the presentation that can be downloaded for use in the classroom to lead the education activities. View the teacher version with teaching notes.
2. Learning Objectives - NGSS aligned teacher support document for the project. Includes Big Ideas, Learning Objectives, Key Understandings, Essential Questions, Standards, Vocabulary and a step by step walk through of the full activity with links to additional materials and resources.
3. Student Worksheets - Worksheet support for students as they do their data collection from the online tools and images and use these to form and amend overarching hypotheses. Includes both a student version and teacher version.
4. Teacher Answer sheet - Worksheet support for students as they do their data collection from the online tools and images and use these to form and amend overarching hypotheses. Includes both a student version and teacher version.
5. Future Lakes animated gif - The complete animation of the lake propagation up the ice sheet by Amber Leeson that is included in the presentation.
6. Short Glacier Goo movies - Gravity - Collection of short very videos demonstrating the different glacier goo activities: Basal Friction, Channel Friction, Gravity and Gravity2 movies.
7. Short Glacier Goo movies - Gravity 2 - Collection of short very videos demonstrating the different glacier goo activities: Basal Friction, Channel Friction, Gravity and Gravity2 movies.
8. Basal Friction - Collection of short very videos demonstrating the different glacier goo activities: Basal Friction, Channel Friction, Gravity and Gravity2 movies.
9. Channel Friction - Collection of short very videos demonstrating the different glacier goo activities: Basal Friction, Channel Friction, Gravity and Gravity2 movies.
10. Images of Change - The NASA Images of Change gallery features images of different locations on planet Earth, showing change over time periods ranging from centuries to days. Some of these effects are related to climate change, some are not. Some document the effects of urbanization, or the ravage of natural hazards such as fires and floods. All show our planet in a state of flux. This specific link illustrates Helheim Glacier melt in Greenland.
11. The Rise and Fall of Ice Age Glaciers - Turn the clock back 122,000 years, place cameras high over the north and south poles, then hit “record,” and it might look something like this. This new animation from NASA software engineers, based on finely tuned computer models, reveals how massive ice sheets that once sprawled across Canada, Greenland and Antarctica thickened and thinned over time. Their rise and fall keep time with the last great ice age. And they reveal a pattern that continues today: the land surface is still rebounding from the heavy weight of those long-vanished glaciers.
12. Climate Quizzes: The Frozen Poles - NASA’s Global Climate site has many fun interactive quizzes to test your knowledge about several different topics related to climate change, from soil moisture to clouds and precipitation. And one of the quizzes is precisely about the frozen poles of our planet.