Steve Nerem is the leader of NASA’s Sea Level Change team. His project, Observation-Driven Projections of Future Regional Sea Level Change, focuses on using NASA satellite and in situ observations and climate modeling to estimate future regional sea level change.
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This Lesson Plan provides some generic maps, graphs, and data tables for use with the Data Literacy Cube. Because this is a differentiated resource, it is appropriate for multiple grade bands.
Background information on sea level.
Background information on sea level change.
Students will watch a video on the Greenland Ice Sheet and answer questions.
Check out this interactive data visualization and simulation tool. It explores the impact of collapsing polar ice sheets (Greenland and Antarctica) and their impact on global mean sea level rise, along with shrinkage in the livable area around the world.
Students analyze the relationship between sea surface height and ocean surface currents by graphing sea height using satellite data. Note: This lesson is modified from NASA's TOPEX/Poseidon lesson plan.
This activity invites students to simulate and observe the different effects on sea level from melting sea-ice.
Students examine the two time series images to determine the differences between seasonal ice melt over water versus land.
GLOBE protocols and learning activities that complement the Sea Level Change phenomenon are outlined.