TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Is Entropy?
Find out about the process that explains why ice melts, why cream spreads in coffee, why air leaks out of a punctured tire. Jeff Phillips gives a crash course on entropy.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: How Low Can You Go?
In this activity, Students can use an EasyTemp temperature probe to determine the normal melting temperature of ice. They will then study how the addition of salt to the melting ice affects its melting temperature. They will finally...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Do Different Colors Absorb Heat Better?
Students test whether the color of a material affects how much heat it absorbs. Students will place an ice cube in a box made of colored paper (one box per color; white, yellow, red and black), which they will place in the sun. The...
NASA
Nasa Earth Observatory: Polar Paradox
In this article about global warming, learn how the warming climate could affect the polar ice caps, glaciers, sea ice, and amount of freshwater entering the polar oceans. Read how some scientists believe global warming could add to...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Heat of Fusion
In this activity, students can use a calorimeter to measure the amount of heat needed to melt ice and determine the heat of fusion for ice. EasyData is needed for this activity.
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: Antarctica Warms, Which Threatens Penguins
Describes the threat of climate change in the Antarctica to emperor penguins by affecting the ice sheets where penguin breeding grounds are located.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry Simulation: Salty Roads
[Free Registration/Login Required] Explore how solutes can keep roads clear of ice in the winter by learning how different types and concentrations of a solute affect the freezing point of a solution.
University of Wisconsin
Uw: Probabilities, Uncertainties and Units Used to Quantify Climate Change
This resource engages learners in using scientific data to analyze a 150-year dataset from Lake Mendota in Madison Wisconsin reflecting seasonal ice cover.
TOPS Learning Systems
Tops Learning Systems: Top Science: Slow Drips [Pdf]
Investigate density by floating an ice cube on the surface of cooking oil and observe what happens as it melts.
Other
Howto smile.org: From Gas to Liquid to Solid
Allow your students to explore states of matter as they learn what causes frost to form on the outside of a cold container. Students will observe how liquid water can change to ice or water vapor in this lab. Lesson includes background...
PBS
Quest: Evidence of Global Warming
Explore how rising sea levels and temperatures, increases in ocean heat, and melting glaciers support global warming in this interactive.
Read Works
Read Works: Watching the Weather
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage talks about weather indications of global warming. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Grow Your Own Glacier
M Jackson explores the ancient methods of growing glaciers and how they can be used to combat climate change.
Other
Antarctic Geological Drilling: Environmental Literacy Framework Activities
An impressive collection of lessons on climate science and climate change. The entire book can be downloaded. As well, each lesson has its own page with some combination of background information, PowerPoints, images, maps, glossaries,...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Freezing
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains what happens to matter when it freezes and the definition of freezing point.
Other
Bc Open Textbooks: Physical Geology: Earth's Interior: Isostasy
This textbook excerpt explains the concept of isostasy and the relationship of Earth's crust to the mantle beneath it. This process is compared to the effects of glaciation and describes the effect an ice sheet has on the crust, and the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: States of Matter
Students act as chemical engineers and use LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics to record temperatures and learn about the three states of matter. Properties of matter can be measured in various ways, including volume, mass, density and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Insulation Materials Investigation
Students test the insulation properties of different materials by timing how long it takes ice cubes to melt in the presence of various insulating materials. Students learn about the role that thermal insulation materials can play in...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering for the Earth
Young students are introduced to the complex systems of the Earth through numerous lessons on its natural resources, processes, weather, climate and landforms. Key earth science topics include rocks, soils and minerals, water and natural...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: A Place in the Shade an Engineering Challenge
Kindergarteners can participate in the engineering and design process in this challenge in which they try to keep an ice cube from melting. Included in this lesson plan are samples of student's structures, a video of a kindergarten class...
Curated OER
Bering Landbridge Animation
During the last ice age the water level in the oceans fell by more than 120 metres. The drop in water levels exposed the floor of the Bering Straight. Over time, people from Asia migrated across this "land bridge" to North America. As...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Sinking Water: Glaciers, Ocean Currents and Weather Patterns
A lesson where learners learn how warm water is less dense than cold water, and what this means for global climate change as ice from the polar regions melts. Students will do experiments in buoyancy and water density when hot or cold,...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Meltdown
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore the relationship between a circle's area and it's radius. This is framed in the context of a scene in where a pile of ice is melting into an increasingly...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Heat Transfer Heat Absorption
Learners will be given a chance to place their hands on two different objects and then predict on which an ice cube will melt more quickly. Students will make a prediction as to what will happen when balloons filled with air and with...
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