Actvity Summary: Students will be able to use data to describe patterns about regional climate change and make an argument for the need to collect more data from the Arctic.

These short activities reveal that data on past climates can be obtained from ice and sediment cores. A subset of research results are investigated to address the question of why more cores should be obtained from the Arctic Ocean and to demonstrate that science is an evolving process. This activity could be used within a unit on climate change, geologic time, or plate tectonics.

This lesson has been revised and updated  based on Window on Arctic Coring.