Transcript Why Are the Ice Caps Melting? - cerser

Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets
Educational Activities: Ice, Ice Baby
Dr. Linda B. Hayden
Associate Director
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets
Elizabeth City State University
[email protected]
NSF subcontract FY2005-108CM1
Education Overview
• CReSIS offers three areas of education
assistance: Graduate, Undergraduate, and K-12
• Graduate resources assist in finding degree
programs, current projects, and information on
how to apply.
• Undergraduate resources detail how to become
involved at any of the partner institutions in a
variety of Polar Science fields.
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K-12 Overview
• The K-12 resources are for students and
teachers to explore and learn about polar
science.
• A range of lesson ideas,
maps, images, and updates
on projects
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Book of the Month
Why Are the Ice Caps Melting?
Author: Anne Rockwell
Review By: Cheri Hamilton
This book presents climate change
in a simple, kid-friendly way. It
introduces the basic concepts of
greenhouse effect and the changes
that are occurring in our world. The
illustrations are fun and engaging for
its 5 to 8 year old audience. Most
importantly, the author gives children
ideas how they can help to stop this
from happening.
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Book of the Month
Why Are the Ice Caps Melting?
CReSIS invites you to sign up for
free copies of this book. 25 copies
are available. One copy per
school.
Sign-up sheets are available at
this booth. Copies will be mailed
to you.
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IPY Posters
Graphic students at The University
of Kansas worked with Associate
Director of Administration Steve
Ingalls throughout the Spring 2007
semester to create posters that
could be used to raise awareness of
the start of the International Polar
Year (2007-2009), as well as
CReSIS' research role and how it is
supporting IPY endeavors.
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IPY Posters
Carolina Medeiros and Ivan
Aguirre, winners of the poster
contest, traveled to
Washington, D.C., for the
conference "Making Science
Global" on Oct. 31, where
their posters (pictured to the
right) were displayed in the
Smithsonian Castle during the
two-day event.
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IPY Posters
CReSIS IPY posters are
available online in PDF or
PNG formats at:
https://www.cresis.ku.edu/education/ipy_posters.html
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Ice Sheet & Glacier Resources
The Ice Sheet & Glacier
Resources page gives you
the choice of several
informational areas:
– Data & Images
– Information
– Lessons – Elementary
– Lessons - Middle School
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Data & Images – NSDIC
The National Snow and Ice Data Center
presents black and white photographs (glaciers),
color photographs (photos from NIDC staff), and
satellite images (sea ice, ice shelves, and
MODIS images) in this gallery. Images from this
collection (particularly the animations of the
extent of sea ice in Antarctica) can be used by
students as data sources for making decisions
about global warming.
http://nsidc.org/gallery/index.html
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Data & Images – Visible Earth
This site from NASA provides satellite photos of Ice and Snow from all
over the world. Clicking a link under a photograph will take you to a site
that describes the photo and has links to larger images. Unless
otherwise noted, all images and
animations made available through
Visible Earth are not copyrighted.
You may use these images for
educational or informational purposes,
including photo collections, textbooks,
public exhibits, and Internet web pages.
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=509
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Information – Understanding Polar Ice
USA Today provides an easy-toread article and a lot of resources
related to polar ice and the effect its
melting might have on the world.
Also provided are links to many
graphics that make the topic easier
to understand.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/coldscience/aice0.htm
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Information – All About Glaciers
A site designed for the general public, it provides
basic information about glaciers, how they are
formed, why they move, and how they affect the
land and people. For those studying global
warming, the section on "how glaciers reflect
climate change" is of particular interest. Easy and
quick to read, with a nice gallery of photographs,
this site makes a good starting place for those
interested in understanding glaciers.
http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/glaciers/information.html
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Information – Life Cycle of a Glacier
NOVA presents a narrated cartoon slide
show illustrating the life of a snowflake in a
glacier. Attractive and accurate, this may
help students who rely on graphical
illustrations of processes for understanding.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vinson/glacier.html
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Information – EarthComm-Cryosphere
Using the links provided on this page,
you can learn more about ice,
glaciers, and global sea level. Many
of the articles are geared toward
adult readers.
http://www.agiweb.org/earthcomm/fluidspheres/cryosphere.html
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Lessons – Elementary
Learning to Take Scientific Notes
This experiment allows upper
elementary students to measure how
much water is in the snow. This
makes a particularly nice experiment
if you can repeat the experiment each
time it snows. Then students can see
the difference in the density of
different snowfalls.
National
Standards
Overview
Rationale
Grade Level
Objectives
Before
Class
Preparation
Materials
Time
Teaching
Sequence
Engagement
Explanation
Elaboration
Exchange
Evaluation
Authors
Background
Resources
Student
Materials
Activity
Review
http://tea.armadaproject.org/activity/tea_trummelcoreactivity.html
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Lessons – Elementary
Glacial Pressure
Elementary students use marshmallows
as the basis for this hands-on experiment
to help them better understand why
glaciers move because of pressure. You
may see an advertisement first. Click on
link that reads "Go Directly to Your Link"
to see the actual site.
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plans/lesson-3834.html
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Lessons – Elementary
Frozen in Time: Ice Cores
Uses a teacher prepared simulated ice core to
visualize what an ice core looks like and how
scientists visually study the cores. Students
grades 4-6 can visually detect the seasonal
layering of ice in the simulation. HINT: Each
layer in the simulation must be completely
frozen before adding another --takes several
days to make good simulated ice cores.
http://www.ume.maine.edu/USITASE/teachers/icecores.html
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Lessons – Middle
Fluffy Snow to Glacier Ice
A fun activity for students in grades 6-8
allows a hands-on understanding of
glacial ice and permeability. All
handouts needed are provided with the
unit or can be obtained by e-mailing
the author.
http://tea.armadaproject.org/activity/tea_activity_shutey_permeabil.html
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Lessons – Middle
Ice Volume Changes
Designed for Grades 6-8, this
lesson plan and related
activities help students
understand the relationship
between ice volume and the
Earth's sea level.
http://oceandrilling.coe.tamu.edu/curriculum/Sea_Level/Ice_Volume/activity.html
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Lessons – Middle
Modeling Glacier Dynamics with Flubber
The National Association of Geoscience
Teachers has created a hands-on activity for
middle and high school students that describes
glacier mass balance in a changing climate. The
students make a glacier using glue, water and
detergent (“flubber”) and construct a glacier
valley using plastic sheeting.
http://nagt.org/nagt/programs/teachingmaterials/11337.html
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Education Workshops
Discovery 2005-Robotics Workshop
June 6-11, 2005
University of Kansas
Lessons learned:
• How to program in Interactive C!
• The difficulties and rewards of working as a
team, and the learning experience gained as a
result.
• How to divide and conquer.
• How to settle creative differences.
• We learned a lot about a wonderful robot
named Steve…
https://www.cresis.ku.edu/education/workshops/discovery%2005%20i3.ppt
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Links to Polar Fun
• Anthropolis
Extremely neat website about the Arctic designed for youth with many
interactive maps and games, plus information on weather, sunrise and
sunset, and links to Arctic-related news stories.
http://www.athropolis.com/index.htm
• Carbon Calculator
A carbon calculator on the web
http://www.safeclimate.net/calculator/
• Climate and Global Change
All about climate for elementary and middle school students
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/climate/climate.html
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Links to Polar Fun
• EPA Climate Change Kids Site
A fun, interactive site on climate change
http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html
• Glaciers: Antarctica
Informative site with details about Antarctica including weather, glaciers,
expeditions, and research stations.
http://web.archive.org/web/20041109091814/www.glacier.rice.edu/
• Ice Alaska Web Casts
View the beautiful carved ice sculptures in the 2007 Ice Alaska contest
http://www.icealaska.com/videocam/Cam702.html
• Just For Fun
Coloring, crossword and mazes about climate change and weather
http://education.arm.gov/studyhall/fun.stm
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Links to Polar Fun
• Penguins Around the World
Penguin pictures and information
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/penguins/main.html
• Science News for Kids
Books, games and pictures of Polar Ice
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20070530/refs.asp
• Time Magazine for Kids
News, book reviews and games about International Polar year
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/magazines/story/0,6277,1596026,00.html
• Enchanted Learning: Antarctica
Website for kids about the geography, history, bio-diversity, and exploration
of Antarctica
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/Antarctica/
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Ice Ice Baby
Students learn about glaciers and the polar
ice caps through hands-on experiments.
(KSNT News, Northeast Kansas)
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