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This Ice in Action lesson plan also includes:
- Everest Education Expedition
- Ice in Action Documents
- Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle
- Mount Everest & Me
- MSU SciZone#28: What Is a Glacier?
- Research Gear and Equipment Photo Monitoring/Repeat Photography
- How a Glacier Forms
- The Glaciers of Mount Everest
- The Shape of Mount Everest
- What Is the Khumbu Icefall
- How the Khumbu Glacier Is Receding
- Glacier National Park Repeat Photography Slideshow
- Vocabulary
- Activity
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Make your own bite-size glacier! A resource teaches about the formation and melting of ice. Activities include videos, a hands-on activity where your pupils build glaciers, and a photographic analysis to teach individuals the chilling facts about ice.
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Instructional Ideas
- Flip your classroom by assigning pupils to watch some of the videos from activity one as homework
- Differentiate for GATE by facilitating a classroom debate; they prepare and research for the topic of the Earth's future temperature and predictions of its effects
Classroom Considerations
- Requires a decent amount of prep work, so plan ahead
- The fifth lesson in a series of eight about Mount Everest
Pros
- Activities are entertaining and engaging
- Provides extended learning ideas
- Supplies additional resources to use as supplements
Cons
- None