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 facts about ice.

Concepts

mount everest, glaciers, albedo, climate change, mountains

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Flip your classroom by assigning pupils to watch some of the videos from activity one as homework
• Differentiate for GATE by facilitating a classroom debate; they prepare and research for the topic of the Earth's future temperature and predictions of its effects

Classroom Considerations

• Requires a decent amount of prep work, so plan ahead
• The fifth lesson in a series of eight about Mount Everest
  

Pros

• Activities are entertaining and engaging
• Provides extended learning ideas  
• Supplies additional resources to use as supplements

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.4.7 RI.5.7 RH.6-8.7