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Checking Out Your Team

Preview: The primary goal of this scientist-supported activity is to generate information and excitement about careers in the field of ice core

Ice Core Drill Model

Students build this drill model and then teach others about how ice cores are retrieved from under the ice sheets in Greenland

Polar Detectives

Students make a model of annual ice layers in an ice core and then graph data from real ice cores to draw

U.S. Ice Drilling Program’s Education Office

Located at Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. 603-646-8126.

 

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement No. PLR-1327315 to Dartmouth, and sub awards to University of New Hampshire, University of Wisconsin and Colorado School of Mines which support the work of the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.