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Ice Cores: Unlocking Past Climates

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Ice Cores: Unlocking Past Climates presents what we know and how we know about the earth’s climate with a set of five video learning modules and companion curricular resources.

The lessons begin by clarifying the difference between weather and climate; proceed to give us a closer look at glaciers and the records they hold of climatic events over extraordinarily long periods of time and show how scientists collect and study glacial ice cores to trace climate history.

Students are drawn into hands-on, minds-on investigations in each learning modules.

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Ice Cores Videos

  • Ice Cores: Stories in Ice

    Through examining ice cores, scientists can observe and record past climate conditions without having lived in those conditions.

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  • Ice Cores: Recovering Ice Cores

    Technological design is a critical component of many scientific ventures. This lesson challenges students to design a device that keeps an ice core frozen for 24 hours.

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  • Ice Cores: Predictions from the Ice

    By examining past trends in carbon dioxide and methane levels as well as temperatures, scientists can predict future trends through ice core samples.

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  • Ice Cores: Climate And Ice

    Ice Cores: Unlocking Past Climates hands us a key to understanding what we know and how we know about the earth’s climate with a set of five video learning modules and companion curricular resources.

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  • Ice Cores: Calendar In Ice

    The ways tree rings and glaciers reveal past events and record time.

    In this lesson students will learn how an ice core provides a record of past climates. Students will create a timeline of their life experiences, analyze model glacier data, and create an ice core diagram of the Dust Bowl years.

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