Description:
This module provides elementary teachers with resources and activities to introduce students to understand the effects of climate change on world water supplies and oceans. After reading through the scenario and using the additional resources provided, students complete investigations to further their understanding and consolidate their knowledge. All of the investigations and their difficulty level are listed below. They can be downloaded in full from the 'K-4 Climate: Water Module' link.
The NASA Global Climate Change Education/Earth Science Education Alliance (ESSEA) modules include situations, connections to standards, resources and sample investigations. Unless labeled K-4 the modules can be adapted for middle and high school students.
Investigations:
- Changing Planet: Melting Glaciers (intermediate).
- Investigate glaciers using Google Earth (beginner).
- Studying snow and ice changes (advanced)
- Glacial Impact: What does it look like? (beginner).
- Glacier "talk": The impact of Climate on Earth (beginner).
- Melting Mountains: Climate Change and Glaciers (intermediate).
- Exploring Benchmark Glaciers (advanced).
- Google Earth tours of glacial change (advanced).
- You're as cold as Ice! (advanced).
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