Glaciers
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Topics
- Glaciers
- Climate
Description
Adjust mountain snowfall and temperature to see the glacier grow and shrink. Use scientific tools to measure thickness, velocity and glacial budget.
Sample Learning Goals
- Explain how environmental conditions (temperature and precipitation) impact glacial mass budget; identify where snow accumulates in a glacier and justify why.
- Explain how ice moves within a glacier; describe and illustrate flow within a glacier.
- Explain or illustrate (demonstrate) how glaciers (i) stay at equilibrium, (ii) grow/advance, (iii) shrink/retreat, and (iv) form; compare climatic conditions leading to each.
- Determine and illustrate how multiple advance-retreat cycles affect the record of glacial end moraines.
Version 2.04
Teacher-Submitted Activities
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| Investigating Climate Change at the Macroscopic and Microscopic Level |
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Amy Rouinfar | MS HS |
Lab | Earth Science |
| Glaciers Earth Science |
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Ryan Tucek | HS | Lab | Earth Science | |
| How do PhET simulations fit in my middle school program? |
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Sarah Borenstein | MS | Other | Chemistry Biology Earth Science Physics |
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| Alignment of PhET sims with NGSS |
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Trish Loeblein | HS | Other | Biology Physics Chemistry Earth Science |
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| MS and HS TEK to Sim Alignment | Elyse Zimmer | MS HS |
Other | Biology Chemistry Physics |
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| Investigating Glaciers | John Judkins | MS HS |
Guided Lab |
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