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Description
This resource is part of a compilation of activities that enable teachers to integrate climate change research into their classrooms through fun, engaging and accessible learning experiences.
This activity focuses on the impacts that melting land and sea ice have on sea level rise. Learners compare the two different scenarios and discuss their findings in a real-world context.
In the core activity students arrange water and ice in two paint trays: one to simulate an iceberg melting in the ocean and the other to model ice melt on land. Using a chart provided by the resource, they record water level measurements at specific time intervals. Once complete, the students will use the data collected to create a line graph and complete a set of discussion questions.
General Assessment
Recommendation of how and where to use it
Why are Icebergs Important to the Health of our Oceans? is best suited to the elementary Science classroom. This resource links to the study of climate change, human impacts on the environment and habitats in addition to more specific curriculum connections related to water distribution and oceans.
The Discover Our Climate learning activities are designed for grades primary to six and focus on Atlantic Canada. Each activity encourages students to be curious and create solutions for the on-going climate challenges we face.
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- Earth Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened by investigating natural systems and their interactions.
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- Earth Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened through investigating natural systems and their interactions.
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- Science 2: Water is essential to all living things and it cycles through the environment
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- Science 3: Wind, water, and ice change the shape of the land.
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- Science 4: All living things sense and respond to their environment
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- Earth and Space Systems: Air and Water in the Environment
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Themes Addressed
Air, Atmosphere & Climate (1)
- Climate Change
Ecosystems (1)
- Appreciating the Natural World
Water (2)
- Marine Environments
- Water Cycle
