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Antarctic Ice Mass Loss 2002-2020
Provided by: NASA |Published on: April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
- In this short animation from NASA, students observe an animated graph and color-coded map of Antarctica that show Antarctica's ice loss over the last 20 years.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: NASA
Region: Polar Regions
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- Students can look at the graph and follow along with it, making it useful to visualize the tons of ice loss per year.
Prerequisites
- Students need to be familiar with climate change and how it is causing ice melt in Antarctica.
Differentiation & Implementation
- This video has no sound and is short, so the teacher can repeat it, pause it, or play it slower to allow students to watch the changes as they unfold.
- Students can answer questions about the causes of ice melt in Antarctica or connect it to the concept of albedo.
- Teachers can ask students to write explanatory texts based on the data presented in the graph to describe what is happening.
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Resource Type and Format
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