Lesson Plan
National Park Service

Glaciers and Water

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Explore the amazing power of glaciers with a hands-on earth science experiment! After first learning basic background information, learners go on to create their very own chunks of frozen water and gravel in order to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Glaciers and Icebergs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners conduct an experiment on glacial scraping. In this glacial scraping lesson, students create a small glacier in a plastic cup. Learners remove the cup and scrape the glacier across wood and note the markings. Students then make...
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Glaciers and Icebergs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan for simulating glacial scraping with extensions that investigate iceberg towing and iceberg melting.