Grades 9-12

Ice Sheet Ablation (pdf)

• Ice melting experiment
  (Word)

• Ice ablation
  (ppt)

• Reading article A
  (Word)

• Reading article B
  (Word)

• Ice melting assessment questions
  (Word)

Students will investigate what properties cause ice sheets to recede. Students will use the experimental method to design and complete their own investigation. Students will also read and discuss current articles on this topic.

Climate Change (pdf)

• Global Warming survey
  (Word)

• Global Warming research questions
  (Word)

• Climate change lecture
  (ppt)

• Controversy process
  (Word)

• Global Warming Controversy
  (Word)

• Future’s wheel
  (Word)

• Inconvenient Truth
  (Word)

• Great GW Swindle
  (Word)

Students will research, organize, discuss, and defend their own position on climate change.

Rock Sample Preparation (pdf)

• What do rocks tell us lecture
  (ppt)

• IR and sample prep lecture
  (ppt)

• IR homework
  (Word)

• Sample logsheet
  (Word)

• Preparing samples
  (Word)

• Spectra results
  (ppt)

• Weight % water
  (xls)

• Calculating glacier thickness teacher
  (Word)

• Calculating glacier thickness
  (Word)

Created by Beth Spear
Westosha Central High School
http://www.westosha.k12.wi.us/scripts/index.php

Students design their own plan for rock sample preparation for infrared analysis. Students assess all the plans and identify problems. Students prepare their own samples in small groups. One sample will be analyzed at UWM or the SRC. Students use their own results to calculate the thickness of an ice sheet. Since teachers may not have access to UWM or SRC two sample spectra are provided.