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Published by
Australian Academy
of Science
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Activities | Getting into hot water – global warming and rising sea levels
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- Research Institute for Sustainable Energy
- Greenhouse activities – provides a number of activities related to the greenhouse effect. One of these activities, Sea level change, demonstrates that the melting of land-ice has a different effect on sea level from the melting of floating
ice.
- Australian Antarctic Division
- Classroom Antarctica: deep freeze – activities such as 'Sea ice', 'Ice melt' and 'Sea levels' help students to recognise the influence of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in global processes.
- Global Education (Australian Agency for International Development)
- Surfing Scientist (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- When
icebergs melt - students find out what happens to water levels
when floating ice melts.
- Science upd8 (UK)
- Watching the ice – students discuss using government funds for science projects and investigate changes of state and expansion. Access to activities is free to subscribers.
- Digital Library for Earth System Education, USA
- Human impact (Gulf of Maine aquarium, USA)
- Melting ice – students examine the potential impacts of the warming of the atmosphere.
- Sea level rise – students examine changes in the volume of a flask of water.
- Salt water incursion – students show that salt water can replace fresh water in a well along the shoreline
- Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (USA)
These lesson plans and background information were developed in association with the National Tidal Facility at Flinders University, Australia. (The lessons were originally printed as part of the Curriculum Modules for the Pacific Schools – Climate change and sea level. The lessons are primarily aimed at junior high school students, but teachers can modify them for senior high school students.)
- Sea Education Association (USA)
- Stacking water – students use clear straws to layer coloured water of different salinities.
- Ocean Drilling Distance Learning Program (Texas A&M University, USA)
- Sea level: Ice volume changes – provides four exercises to help students identify the relationship between global climate change and Earth's ice volume and sea level, and to interpret climatic history. Teachers notes are also available.
- New York Times Learning Network (USA)
- Ice breakers – students demonstrate several physical properties of ice, then relate these properties to the effects of global warming on icecaps.
- Walking on thin ice? – students examine scientific evidence of changes in the Arctic ice cover.
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