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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 HAYDENL@MINDSPRING. COM NSF subcontract FY 2005 -108 CM 1

Education Overview • CRe. SIS 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. 2

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 3

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. 4

Book of the Month Why Are the Ice Caps Melting? CRe. SIS 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. 5

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 CRe. SIS' research role and how it is supporting IPY endeavors. 6

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. 7

IPY Posters CRe. SIS IPY posters are available online in PDF or PNG formats at: https: //www. cresis. ku. edu/education/ipy_posters. html 8

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 9

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 10

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? category. ID=509 11

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/aice 0. htm 12

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 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 13

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 14

Information – Earth. Comm-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 15

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 16

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 17

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 18

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 19

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 20

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 21

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%20 i 3. ppt 22

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. html 23

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/Cam 702. html • Just For Fun Coloring, crossword and mazes about climate change and weather http: //education. arm. gov/studyhall/fun. stm 24

Links to Polar Fun • Penguins Around the World Penguin pictures and information http: //www. siec. k 12. 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/ 25

Ice Baby Students learn about glaciers and the polar ice caps through hands-on experiments. (KSNT News, Northeast Kansas) 26

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