Climate Fluctuations Recorded in Seafloor Sediment
This lesson has students evaluating oxygen isotope data from different sediment cores and correlating fluctuations in the data with ice…
Climate Diaries of the Deep: Research on Ancient Environments
This lesson focuses on the use of data to study how Earth’s climate has changed over time. Students use foraminifera…
Climate Data from Arctic Coring
These short activities reveal that data on past climates can be obtained from ice and sediment cores. A subset of…
Analyzing Earth’s History Using Sediment Cores
Students will practice the skill of interpreting scientific data by describing and finding patterns in ocean sediment core samples that…
Using Image Data to Explore Paleoclimate
Iceberg of Antarctica Book
Inspired by Expedition 382, Iceberg Alley, Iceberg of Antarctica follows an iceberg’s formation and journey from snowfall, to ice stream…
Antarctic Log Comic – Expedition 379: Amundsen Sea
A team of 116 ship crew, scientists, technicians, and communicators took to the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica’s fastest-warming sea aboard the…
Antarctica and Neogene Global Climate Change
In this chapter you will build basic geographic and geologic knowledge of Antarctica and use geologic reasoning. In Part 11.1, you will…
A Tale of Two Teeth
This lesson is a storytelling activity—a story that has characters (including a villain), a series of mysteries (starting with unexplained…
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) in Review
Since 1968, scientific ocean drilling has tapped into a considerable archive of Earth history, and in doing so has revealed…