Students explore positive feedback effects of changing albedo from melting Arctic sea ice.
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This graphic organizer may be used to help students analyze the processes and components of Earth System phenomena.
Background information on sea and land ice melt.
My NASA Data has recently released several new resources, story maps, for use in educational settings.
Explore and connect to biosphere protocols in GLOBE. Each protocol has related Earth System Data Explorer datasets identified, as well.
In this activity, you will use an inexpensive spectrophotometer* to test how light at different visible wavelengths (blue, green, red) is transmitted, or absorbed, through four different colored water samples.
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.
This activity is one of a series in the collection, The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change activities.
Explore and connect to the GLOBE Urban protocol bundle.