Saturday, December 5, 2009

Reading Ice Core Lesson Plans

Here's a wonderful lesson plan where the teacher makes simulated ice core samples for the students to study:

Frozen in Time: Ice Cores by Jan French


Click here for the Pdf lesson, complete with ice core instructions and student worksheet.



Click here
for PBS "Stories in the Ice."



Click here
for National Ice Core Laboratory.



Click here
for another Pdf lesson in which the students model their own ice cores using play dough and other substances. Then their cores are exchanges and studied. Very kewl!



Click here
for a nice "movie" of the life of a snowflake, showing how a glacier forms in layers from snow. Click here for accompanying lesson.

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