Engineering Challenge: Designing a Portable Drilling Rig
Engineering Challenge: Designing a Portable Drilling Rig Download Activity (as a Google doc) Watch short video for teachers (5+ minutes) Most of the drilling rigs used by...
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Decoding Ice Cores–Isotopic Analysis–How warm was the Earth in the past?
DOWNLOAD ACTIVITY PREVIEW: In this lab we will use 5-pennies to model water molecules sampled from each of 11 different “ice core layers” dating from the present...
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Decoding Ice Cores–Atmospheric Analysis–How much Carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere in the past?
DOWNLOAD ACTIVITY PREVIEW Ice cores provide climate scientists with evidence of past CO2 levels. Climate scientists can directly measure past atmospheric gases by analyzing the air bubbles...
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All Educational Resources, Activities and Labs
All Resources, Activities and Labs This link takes you to the entire list of all activities and labs created by the Ice Drilling Program. (It is also...
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Subglacial Lakes
Download Full Activity (To View correctly, open with Google Docs.) Preview Students observe a subglacial lake model and measure changes in temperature, salinity and sea level rise...
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The Long Haul–Ice Core Challenge: Keeping Ice Cores Frozen from Field to Lab
DOWNLOAD ACTIVITY (Be sure to open the document first with Google Docs before using it.) VIDEO: The Long Haul (Also available at the bottom of this page.)...
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Life Cores
DOWNLOAD ACTIVITY Preview: By building a personal “life core,” students are introduced to some of the techniques and vocabulary used by scientists as they study ice cores....
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Ice Core Lab-Maloney
DOWNLOAD ICE CORE LAB-MALONEY DOWNLOAD LAB EXCEL SHEET SUPPORT RESOURCE DOWNLOAD Adaptation (non-frozen ice core model) A proxy is a substitute for an actual measurement. CO2 data...
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