Grade Level: 3-5,
6-8,
9-12
In this activity, students use satellite images from the NASA Landsat team to quantify changes in glacier cover over time from 1986 to 2018.
In this activity, students use satellite images from the NASA Landsat team to quantify changes in glacier cover over time from 1986 to 2018.
Students examine the two time series images to determine the differences between seasonal ice melt over water versus land.
This lesson is taken from NASA's Phytopia: Discovery of the Marine Ecosystem written in partnership with Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science with funding from the National Science Foundation.
Students explore positive feedback effects of changing albedo from melting Arctic sea ice.