Transcript Explore! Ice Worlds Training PowerPoint Part 1

Welcome
to
Explore! Ice Worlds
Sharing The
International Polar Year Through Library and
After-School Program Networks
Why Are We Here Today?
• To explore activities and resources to bring the
International Polar Year into children’s programs
Explore! Ice Worlds
• On line http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/ice/activities/
• 3 modules of multiple activities
– stand alone or together – use as you see fit!
• Materials list, Book and Web Resources
• Background Information and scientist’s talks
• Tied to National Science Education Standards
• Tested in library and after-school programs
Today
• Properties of Ice
• Different Ices in the Solar System
• Some Unexpected Places Ice May Exist
Next Time
• How and where and why we look for ice in the solar
system
• Ice on Earth
Let’s Get Started!
• Lots to Cover
– Fast pace
• Join us!
– Interactive!!!!
Module 1: All About Ice
• Ice Bingo: An Ice Breaker
Activity
• The Melting Point
• An Ice Magic Show
• Tip of the Iceberg
• Around the Block: An Ice
Tour
• That’s a N(ice) Temperature
• Amazing Expanding Ice
• Flubber Flows
Have you ever …
• Made a snowperson?
• Thrown a snowball?
• Gone ice fishing?
• Gotten your tongue stuck on ice?
• Had an ice cube tray “overflow?”
• Slipped on ice?
One way to get children started…
what are their experiences with ice?
States of Water:
A Snow Mobile
Connecting the Content
Across the Activities
What do you know about
water and how it
behaves?
And Now,
At no additional
charge …
An Ice
Magic Show!
An Ice
Magic Show
•Water exists in different
states:
– Liquid – water
– Solid – ice
– Gas – steam
•Heating and cooling cause it
to change states
Around the Block: An Ice Tour
What do you observe
about ice?
Investigator Journal!
The Melting Point
What happens when you
put salt on ice?
The Melting Point
Why?
Salt causes the ice to melt
faster.
Salt (and other substances)
lowers the freezing point of
water -- the water has to be
colder to freeze
The ice melts at colder
temperatures
That’s a N(ice)
Temperature
• What is the melting
temperature of ice?
• What is the freezing
temperature of water?
Amazing Expanding Ice
• What happens to water
when you freeze it?
• How does it change?
Overnight
Activity!
As ice is less
dense than
water, what
happens when it
is placed in
water?
The Tip of the Iceberg
• Which is less dense - water
or ice?
• What will happen when the
ice from the last activity is
placed in a bowl of water?
Based on what you learned,
draw the top or bottom of these icebergs!
Flubber Flows
• Ice is what state of water?
• How does it behave? It
floats …
1. Amundsen Scott South Pole Station sits on a giant
sheet of ice that is over a mile and a half thick.
1996
1997
1998
4. Each pole marked by an arrow once stood over the
geographic south pole. The geographic south pole is
not moving … so why have the poles moved?
5. A valley glacier in Alaska. The dark stripes are bands
of rock that mark where smaller glaciers have flowed
into the larger glacier.
Time to Check the Flubber …
Qori Kallis Glacier in the
Andes of Peru
(1978 and 2002)
How has it changed?
Predictions for 2010?
States of Water:
A Snow Mobile
Connecting the Content
Across the Activities
Finish the Mobile!
Module 2: Ice in the Solar System
• Ice and Seek: What is Ice?
• Ice Zones: Where We Look for Ice
• Reflections on Ice: How We Look for Ice
• Ice Quest: Who is Looking for Ice
• Why Ice? Why We Look for Ice
Module 2: Ice in the Solar System
• Ice and Seek: What is Ice?
• Ice Zones: Where We Look for Ice
• Reflections on Ice: How We Look for Ice
• Ice Quest: Who is Looking for Ice
• Why Ice? Why We Look for Ice
Ice in the Solar System
What is Ice? Ice and Seek!
• What is ice?
• Where does it occur in our
Solar system?
• Is the ice the same
everywhere?
Mars
Europa
Europa
Europa
• Water ice
Carbon Dioxide ice
• Water ice
Ice Zones – Where We Look for Ice
• What does water need in
order to exist as ice?
• Where in the Solar
System might we find
this?
• What does this picture
show?
• Which planets are cold
enough to have water ice
at their surfaces?
• Earth side facing the
Sun should be really
really really hot
• Side facing away
should be really really
really cold
• But they are not …
why?
• What about Mercury?
• Or the Moon?
• Atmospheres?
• Temperatures?
• Places where
temperatures stay hot
or cold?
• Where is Earth warmest?
• Coldest?
• Why?
• Same for other planets?
• Could a planet or moon close to the Sun (or even far
away!) have places that never get energy from the
Sun?
• Where?
How?
A Few Opportunities
http://passporttoknowledge.com
/polar-palooza/pp01.php
Cleveland, Chicago, Salt Lake,
Richmond, St. Louis, Boise,
Denver … and more
http://www.earthsky.org/article
/international-polar-year
NASA and IPY
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/IPY
/main/index.html
http://www.ipy.gov/Default.aspx
Articles, Blogs, Images,
Video Clips,
Educator Resources
Explore! Ice Worlds
Thanks NASA’s
Science Mission Directorate
for generous funding of
Sharing The
International Polar Year
Through Library and AfterSchool Program Networks
And Thanks To Our Reviewers!
Ms. Nicole Betts, Henderson Elementary
School, Houston Independent School, Houston,
Texas
Ms. Reggie Burns, Children's Library
Specialist, Allen Public Library, Allen, Texas
Ms. Beverly Kirkendall, Library Manager,
Youth Services, Hurst Public Library, Hurst,
TX
Ms. Jeri Zitterkob, Western Plains Library
System, Clinton, Oklahoma
And Thanks to You!