Topic outline

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  • Sea Ice and Permafrost
    

  • Sea Ice - Teacher Background File

    Information to assist you in teaching about sea ice.

  • Insulating Effect - Student Activity File

    An activity to examine the capacity of sea ice to insulate.

  • Insulating Effect - Teacher Notes File
  • Sea Ice & Heat - Student Activity File

    Students conduct an experiment to see if heat could raise sea levels.

  • Sea Ice & Heat - Teacher Notes File
  • Sea Ice Thickness - Student Activity File

    An experiment to see the impact of ice thickness on its rate of melting.

  • Sea Ice Thickness -Teacher Notes File
  • Melting Sea Ice - Student Activity File

    An experiment to see if melting sea ice really does result in sea level rise.

  • Melting Sea Ice - Teacher Notes File
  • Permafrost - Teacher Background File

    Background to assist you with the teaching of permafrost.

  • Permafrost Feedback Loops - Student Activity File

    Students examine the important concept of feedback loops.

  • Permafrost Feedback Loops - Teacher Notes File
  • Permafrost Melting - Student Activity File

    An experiment to simulate the impact of melting permafrost on infrastructure.

  • Permafrost Melting - Teacher Notes File
  • Methane Clathrates - Student Activity File

    Students examine whether pressure can make a gas more dense and apply this to methane clathrates.

  • Methane Clathrates - Teacher Notes File
  • Sea Ice & Permafrost - Student Review File

    Activities to assist students with reviewing this unit.

  • Sea Ice & Permafrost - Teacher Review File