Glaciers
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About
Topics
- Glaciers
- Climate
Description
Adjust mountain snowfall and temperature to see the glacier grow and shrink. Use scientific tools to measure thickness, velocity and glacial budget.
Sample Learning Goals
- Explain how environmental conditions (temperature and precipitation) impact glacial mass budget; identify where snow accumulates in a glacier and justify why.
- Explain how ice moves within a glacier; describe and illustrate flow within a glacier.
- Explain or illustrate (demonstrate) how glaciers (i) stay at equilibrium, (ii) grow/advance, (iii) shrink/retreat, and (iv) form; compare climatic conditions leading to each.
- Determine and illustrate how multiple advance-retreat cycles affect the record of glacial end moraines.
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For Teachers
Teacher-Submitted Activities
Title | Authors | Level | Type | ||
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Investigating Climate Change at the Macroscopic and Microscopic Level | Amy Rouinfar | HS MS |
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Glaciers Earth Science | Ryan Tucek | HS | Lab | ||
Alignment of PhET sims with NGSS | Trish Loeblein | HS | Other | ||
How do PhET simulations fit in my middle school program? | Sarah Borenstein | MS | Other | ||
MS and HS TEK to Sim Alignment | Elyse Zimmer | MS HS |
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Investigating Glaciers | John Judkins | MS HS |
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Simulações no Ensino de Fisica | Carla Tavares | HS | HW Guided Lab MC Other Demo Discuss |
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Software Requirements
Windows | Macintosh | Linux |
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Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8.1/10 Latest version of Java
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OS X 10.9.5 or later Latest version of Java
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Credits
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