Ucar: Little Ice Age: Working With Indirect Evidence of Past Climates

Students brainstorm what the living conditions during the period known as the Little Ice Age (1350-1850) might have been like then study information about lifestyles, the economy, crop yields, and human and livestock mortality.

Bring history to life for your young scholars with a Fourth of July lesson series. After a class reading of the Declaration of Independence, students translate this pivotal document into layman's terms before working in small...

Can climate change contribute to political unrest? Explore this intriguing question with a video from Crash Course World History that examines the Little Ice Age from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries, particularly in the...

If your class's knowledge of the Ice Age is limited to animated movies, use this lesson plan to strengthen their knowledge. After sharing what they know about the Ice Age, young readers explore a news article seeking to dispel...

Did you know there was a global 'Little Ice Age' around the time Columbus sailed across the Atlantic? Climatologists have documented changes in temperature and how countries and people around the world were affected. What caused the LIA?...

Students explore the 5 themes of geography. In this cross curriculum literacy and geography lesson, students listen to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett, and make a list of the needs of the people in Chewandswallow....

This website discusses the devastation caused by the Little Ice Age during the 16th century. Detailed narrative provides a multitude of possible causes for the Little Ice Age.

Crash Course World History video on the period of cooling between the 13th and 19th Centuries, known as the Little Ice Age. Host John Green discusses probable reasons for the temperature change and describes the profound impact they had...

The Dark Ages began with the fall of the Roman Empire. In 410 AD the Visigoths sack Rome with Alaric heading the charge. While this clip is somewhat over dramatic in its historic description, the causes of the attack on Rome are clearly...

Students brainstorm what living conditions during the period known as the Little Ice Age (1350-1850) might have been like. They research lifestyles, the economy, crop yields, and human and livestock mortality.