Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigate Topography Caused by Glacial Lake Agassiz & Glacial Riv Warren
In this field investigation students will travel to Bonanza Educational center located on Big Stone Lake. The students will hike up the prairie where they will sit and sketch the topography of the land. The students will then travel down...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Glaciers in Our Own Backyard
Students identify glacial activity and infer how those events shape the area. This activity involves a filed trip to a location where it is possible to examine glacial events.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Geologic Stories: Retreating Waterfalls and Fossils
A geology field investigation where students investigate fossiliferous limestone, the study local stratigraphy, and understand how glaciers and rivers have shaped the community.
Other
Sierra Club: Yosemite Glaciers
John Muir was in the Yosemite Valley in 1871. These notes describe his journey, explaining much about Yosemite glaciers and the progress they've made over time.
Other
Sierra Club: How Yosemite Was Formed
A lot of information on the glaciers that were once covering Yosemite. Be a detective and discover the evidence of glaciers in Yosemite. This is Chapter 11 from The Yosemite by John Muir, published in 1912.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Rocky Mountain National Park: Geologic Activity
The National Park Service gives information on glaciers during the Bull Lake glaciation period and the Pinedale glaciation period. Find out what happened to these glaciers and what they left behind.
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.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Repeat Photography Project
The Repeat Photography Project pairs historic images with contemporary photos thus documenting glacial decline through photography while communicating the effects of global warming.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: Restless Landscapes
Material to begin an exploration of the sand formation, landforms, and underground water. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on the ice ages, glaciers, and glacial landforms, and ideas...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: What Is Glacial Erosion?
An overview of the formation and existence of glaciers, and the effects of their movement.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Great Basin National Park Nevada: Glaciers/glacial Features
Ten thousand years ago this park had glaciers. What happened to them? How did they affect the landscape? Click on this site and find out.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Glacier Slide
Students describe how a glacier carves land and label the characteristics formed by the glacier's movement.
Other
University of Vermont: What Are the Physical Effects of Glaciers?
See what a glacier in Vermont has done to a mountain. What marks did it leave behind? Click on this site and find out!