Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets Educational Activities: Ice, Ice Baby

Dr. Linda B. HaydenAssociate Director

Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets

Elizabeth City State UniversityHAYDENL@MINDSPRING.COM

NSF subcontract FY2005-108CM1

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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 MonthWhy 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 MonthWhy 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 PostersGraphic 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 PostersCarolina 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 EarthThis 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-to-read 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 – ElementaryLearning 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.

http://tea.armadaproject.org/activity/tea_trummelcoreactivity.html

Overview Rationale Grade Level Objectives NationalStandards

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Lessons – ElementaryGlacial 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 – ElementaryFrozen 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 – MiddleFluffy 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 – MiddleIce 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 – MiddleModeling 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

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

Discovery 2005-Robotics Workshop June 6-11, 2005 University of Kansas

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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 CalculatorA carbon calculator on the webhttp://www.safeclimate.net/calculator/

• Climate and Global ChangeAll about climate for elementary and middle school studentshttp://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 changehttp://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html

• Glaciers: AntarcticaInformative 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 contesthttp://www.icealaska.com/videocam/Cam702.html

• Just For Fun Coloring, crossword and mazes about climate change and weatherhttp://education.arm.gov/studyhall/fun.stm

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Links to Polar Fun• Penguins Around the World

Penguin pictures and informationhttp://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/penguins/main.html

• Science News for Kids Books, games and pictures of Polar Icehttp://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20070530/refs.asp

• Time Magazine for Kids News, book reviews and games about International Polar yearhttp://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 Antarcticahttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/Antarctica/

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Ice Ice BabyStudents learn about glaciers and the polar ice caps through hands-on experiments.

(KSNT News, Northeast Kansas)

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