Curated OER
Glaciers Worksheet #1
The landscape impacted by glacier activity is drawn at the top of this worksheet. Ten multiple choice questions follow, some relating to the diagram, and some about the quality of soil left by glaciation. It is not often that you come...
Curated OER
Oceanography Worksheet #1
If you are teaching physical oceanography to middle school earth scientists, here is a terrific multiple choice worksheet. Learners look at a diagram of a landscape created by glacial sediment deposition and the resulting ocean floor....
Montana State University
Ice in Action
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...
Curated OER
Fastest Glacier
Students compare and contrast continental ice sheets and a glacier. They discuss how glaciers form. Students research the average winter and summer temperatures for their area. They predict what might happen to the Greenland...
Center Science Education
Glaciers: Then and Now
Cooperative groups compare pairs of photos of Alaskan glaciers. They match a historical photo to the recent photo of the same glacier. The class discusses what conditions are necessary for glaciers to retreat. This abbreviated activity...
Curated OER
Glaciers
In this glaciers worksheet, students complete 12 different questions related to glaciers. First, they complete the 2 tables that illustrate the similarities and differences between continental and valley glaciers. Then, students identify...
Curated OER
Glaciers: Then and Now
A large data table is given to your elementary earth scientists in which they record observations that they make while viewing pictures of Alaskan glaciers. They compare and contrast recent photos with older photos. Hold a discussion...
Curated OER
Changing Planet: Melting Glaciers
Resource links to a video, satellite images, data, and photographs of glaciers provide emerging earth scientists the opportunity to examine how the ice has been retreating over the years. A data table is included for pupils to record...
Curated OER
Glaciers
In this glaciers worksheet, students review terms associated with glaciers including esker, till, plucking, and outwash. This worksheet has 14 true or false questions.
Science Friday
How Boulders Are Born
Want your class to rock? Then try this boulder activity. Pupils learn about a specific boulder field and use edible materials to demonstrate the geological processes that formed this unique feature. Weathering, erosion, and mass...
Curated OER
Geography: examining the Glacial Features of Cape Cod
Students examine satellite images of the glacial features of Cape Cod. They analyze where human activity is located in terms of those features. Students make models of the features, including kettle holes. They also use contour maps...
Curated OER
Boundaries and People
Pupils map watersheds to find their boundaries. For this watershed activity students map and then give their "watershed address." Pupils show the trail from stream, larger stream to oceans. Students describe the...
Curated OER
Carving Mountains
Students explore geography by participating in an illustration activity. In this land-form instructional activity, students define vocabulary terms associated with glaciers and forests. Students utilize pens, cardboard and pottery clay...
Curated OER
On the Rise . . . Sea Level and Global Warming
Ninth graders conduct an experiment to determine how melting sea ice affect sea level. In this earth science instructional activity, 9th graders explain the environmental consequences of rising sea level. They relate this instructional...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: My Glacier Cave Discoveries
Eddy Cartaya takes us inside the magical spaces where ice glows in bright blues and greens, and where artifacts rain from the ceiling in glacier caves. [8:02]
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Earth Science: Erosion and Deposition by Glaciers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how continental and valley glaciers form, explains how glaciers cause erosion, and identifies landforms that are deposited by glaciers.
Other
Tulane University: Physical Geology: Glaciers and Glaciation
Lots of information here about glaciation, types of glaciers, the formation of glacial ice, changes in glacier size, how glaciers move, glacial erosion, landforms produced by glaciers, glacial deposition and drift, effects of glaciation...
Other
Montana State University: Plate Tectonics and Glacier Formation [Pdf]
Document describes the two types of glaciers and how they are formed. Learn how plate tectonics and glacial formation are related.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Glaciers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes what glaciers are.
Other
The Geography Site
The Geography Site offers many links for your geography research. Links offered are to physical geography, human geography, environment, online lessons, and much more.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Sleeping Bear Dunes Michigan: Glaciers/glacial Features
The National Park Service provides information on sand dunes that have been created by glaciers. Twice during its lifetime the glaciers have dumped large land masses into Michigan.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Fire and Ice: Volcanic and Glacial Features on Land and Seafloor
Learners learn about glacial and volcanic features by examining and comparing bathymetric and topographic images of the Sand Point area of Alaska.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Landforms
Understand the formation and geology of different landforms around the Earth.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Glaciers
Fun information about glaciers including where they are found, types of glaciers, how they are formed, their importance, and threats to glaciers.