Name: Hannah Tubbs

Date: November 22, 2014

Lesson: Glaciers
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY I
Construct a lesson plan utilizing good pedagogical practices and incorporating technology as a tool for
teaching and learning. Focus on a concept or skill in your content specialty area and support student
activities with the use of hardware and/or software. *Note: Do not make the emphasis of the lesson a
"how-to" with technology. An outline for your lesson plan is provided below:

Standards: Include content area and ISTE NETS for Students standards.
NYS Earth Science Core Curriculum Standards
Key Idea 2: 2.1r: Climate variations, structure, and characteristics of bedrock influence the
development of landscape features including mountains, plateaus, plains, valleys, ridges,
escarpments, and stream drainage patterns.
STEM Standard
5-ESS22.

Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various
reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth. [Assessment
Boundary: Assessment is limited to oceans, lakes, rivers, glaciers, ground water, and polar
ice caps, and does not include the atmosphere.]

ISTE NETS Standard

1. Creativity and innovation

Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products
and processes using technology.
a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes
b. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression
c. Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues
d. Identify trends and forecast possibilities
Lesson Objective(s):
1. Students will obtains a better understanding of the relationship between sea level air
temperature, snowfall and glacier size

2. Students will gain a better understanding of the importance of glaciers and the importance they
provide to our world.
3. Students will be able to connect the problems with global warming to the melting of glaciers

Introduce the Learning Activity:

The teacher will start off the lesson by showing students a YouTube video that can be found on my
personal webpage. The video is a 360 day time lapse of the Mendenhall Glacier located in Juneau,
Alaska. The students will be asked to jot down some notes that they notice within this video that we can
discuss after the short clip is over This video is a 1:10 seconds long so its purpose in this lesson is just to
grab the students attention attempt to get them interested and engaged at the start of the lesson.
Here is the link if it fails to load on my webpage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dFbuaz130c

Provide Information:
Playing with glaciers: Using the PHET Glacier Simulation designed by the University of Colorado at
Boulder, students will complete a worksheet using the simulator. This worksheet will provide a better
understanding with the relationship between the seal level air temperature, the average snowfall and
how it changes a glaciers size over a certain amount of years.
Here is the link!: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/glaciers
Glacier informational web quest: The students will participate in a web quest where they will pair of in
groups of 2-3 and use the links provided on my webpage to research about the changing life of glaciers.
They will have a working sheet that they will have guiding questions to answer. The students should be
exploring key concepts of glaciers such as why they are important in the world?
Continuing with the web quest will then use the World Wild Life page with the 10 Interesting facts
webpage (http://www.worldwildlife.org/blogs/good-nature-travel/posts/ten-interesting-facts-aboutglaciers) with their pairs/groups the students will choose one of the ten facts that are provided and
create a quick presentation about that fact. The presentation should be short (4-5 slides), informational,
creative, and colorful!
Another useful link with information!: http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/information.html

Provide Practice:
PHET Glacier Simulator: The students will be given a few minutes to play around with this simulator,
they will have 2 scenarios to follow in order to get some specific data that they will hand in o the teacher
can assess that they were understanding correctly. Each student is expected to fill out a worksheet that
will be handed in for assessment of understanding.
Web Quest/PowerPoint: The students will be web questing information about glaciers and find out
interesting facts! They will take the information that they find using specific sources and find one

specific interesting fact and create a very short informational PowerPoint about it! Each student will
hand in their own web quest sheet, and they students will email me their PowerPoints in groups.

Provide Knowledge of Results:

PHET Glacier Simulator Worksheet: This worksheet is designed for the students to see the changes of a
glacier by changing certain attributes. The worksheet will give the students a step by step instruction of
what to do with the simulator and what to record. The teacher will collect this very short worksheet in
order to obtain their knowledge of results.
Web Quest/ PowerPoint on Glaciers: This portion of the lesson will give the students an independent
time in groups to search, and find their own information about glaciers. Each student will hand in a
individual worksheet that will be looked at in order to see what the students discovered about glaciers.
Their PowerPoint creations that they create will give the teacher an understanding on what they learned
throughout the web quest and collaborated with other students to create the PowerPoint.

Review the Activity:

With time permitting the teacher will ask if any groups would like to quickly present their findings on
Glaciers. These presentations should be no more then 2-4 minutes apiece as their presentations should
only be 4-5 slides.
The teacher will ask the question if students think that the changes in glaciers may be an effect from
global warming. Students should make the connection of the causes of global warming and the changing
climate and its effects.

Method of Assessment:
PHET Glacier Simulation Worksheet: Students will be graded on their completion of the short
worksheet that is expected to be completed when using the simulator. The data that the student
collects will be observed. This will be graded on a pass/fail basis. If the student hands in the worksheet
and it is complete then they will get a pass, if they student does not hand in the worksheet or they hand
in the worksheet and it is not complete they will receive a failing grade.
Web Quest Worksheet: Students will be graded on their completion of the short worksheet that is
expected to be completed when using the informational websites that are provided. The information
that the student collects will be observed. This will be graded on a pass/fail basis. If the student hands in
the worksheet and it is complete with through information about glaciers then they will get a pass, if
they student does not hand in the worksheet or they hand in the worksheet and it is not complete they
will receive a failing grade.
Glacier PowerPoint: This is the rubric that students will be graded on with completion of the short
PowerPoint that they create about glaciers.

Glacier
PowerPoint

Important
information about
Glaciers

Includes an
abundance key
component about
understanding
glaciers. Has 5 or
more facts

Includes a lot of
key components
about
understanding
glaciers. Has 4 or
more facts

Includes some key

components about
understanding
glaciers. Has 3 or
more facts

Includes some key

components about
understanding
glaciers. Has 3 or
more facts

Includes no key
components about
understanding
glaciers. Has 0 facts

Connections to
todays climate
change

All the information

about glaciers
makes a
connection to
climate change

Most of the
information about
glaciers makes a
connection to
todays climate
change

Some of the
information about
glaciers connects to
todays climate
change

Little information
about glaciers are
making
connections to
todays climate
change

None of the
information about
glaciers makes
connections to
todays climate
change

Creative
PowerPoint
presentation

Presentation is
very organized,
creative, and is
colorful. Includes
an abundance of
pictures

Presentation is
organized, creative,
and is colorful.
Includes a lot of
pictures

Presentation is
somewhat
organized, creative,
and is colorful.
Includes some
pictures

Presentation lacks
some organization
creativity, and
color. Includes few
pictures

Presentation
includes no forms
of organization
creativity, and is
colorful. Includes
no pictures

Final Grade:___________________ Comments:

Name:________________________________________________
Glaciers Lesson Worksheet
PHET Glacier Simulator-University of Colorado at Boulder
Answer the following questions based on using the simulator about glaciers!
For each simulation set it up with the correct information and fill in what is left blank!
Important things to remember!

Mark the start! Flag or drill! Or even both!

You dont have to be directly exact on the year, but get as close to it as you can!
Reset when you start your second round!
Have fun!

Simulation 1

Years

Depth of
glacier (ft)

Temperature of
glacier (f)

Snowfall (ft)

Sea Level
Temp (f)

10

4.9

58

50

4.9

58

120

4.9

58

Simulation 2

Years

Depth of
glacier (ft)

Temperature of
glacier (f)

Snowfall (ft)

Sea Level
Temp

10

63

50

63

120

63

What can you tell me about the differences between the two
simulations:___________________________________________________________________________
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Web Quest using the following sites!
10 Interesting Facts about Glaciers-World Wildlife Fund
http://www.worldwildlife.org/blogs/good-nature-travel/posts/ten-interesting-facts-about-glaciers

National Snow and Ice Data Center

http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/information.html
Answer the following questions! Be sure to be specific because you will be creating a PowerPoint with
the information that you find!
1. What is a glacier?
______________________________________________________________________________
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2. How do glaciers form?
______________________________________________________________________________
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3. How do glaciers move?

______________________________________________________________________________
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4. Name three countries that have glaciers:
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5. Tell me something about glaciers that you did not know before!
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Glacier Presentation:
You and another classmate will create a SHORT (4-5 slides) presentation on the information that you just
found! Yes, you may use a Prezi if you prefer! Choose one interesting fact from the World Wildlife Fund
Webpage to base your presentation off of! Be creative, be information and have fun! Here is how you
will be graded!