Digging Deep for Evidence of Changes on Earth
In this introductory activity, students will analyze core sample data to identify sediment composition on the ocean floor. During this…
Cycles and Sediments: The Layers in Ocean Sediment Cores Reveal Earth’s Climate History
This lesson has students analyze sediment in ocean cores from the Ross Sea to interpret as evidence of environmental changes….
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…