FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT US AT connect@space.rice.edu Funded by NASA as part of the Earth Science Information Partners   Activity 3: Coming Of The Ice Level: grades 5-8 Learning Objective: Students will observe and record sea level changes caused by an ice age and will describe why this change occurs. They will also identify the effect on human migrations. Specific Science Content Standards Properties of matter Populations and ecosystems Structure of the earth system Earth's history Populations and environments Origin and evolution of the earth system Geography: mapping, analyzing, predicting spatial data Earth Update: Cryosphere Introducing the activity: Ask students what they know ice ages. Build on their comments to describe a condition when the world grows colder and ice covers more of the land. (One trigger for an ice age is a small change in the tilt of the earth's rotation axis. This information is in the software if you want to introduce the subject with your students). Tell students that the last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago and that they will discover how different one part of the earth was during the ice age. Activity 3: Coming Of The Ice You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this activity. To download, click on the link below. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html

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