Students explore the spatial patterns observed in meteorological data and learn how this information is used to predict weather and understand climate behavior.
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Background information on snow and ice extent.
Students evaluate graphs and images of sea ice and relate them to changes in albedo. Students make a claim about the interaction of albedo and sea ice extent.
Students explore positive feedback effects of changing albedo from melting Arctic sea ice.
Students will make a claim about whether changing albedo contributes to changes in Arctic habitats.
Explore and connect to protocols in GLOBE related to the cryosphere. Each protocol has related Earth System Data Explorer datasets identified as well.
Students develop and test a hypothesis about how albedo affects temperature.
Students connect day/night and seasonal cycles with albedo in the Arctic region.
Explore the energy and matter cycles found within the Earth System.
Students watch a video introducing the concept of albedo and answer questions.