The students will bury ice (frozen in various shapes such as flat slabs, wedges, & lumps) at varying depths and under the various substrates and vegetation covers.
The students will record the ambient temperature and how long it takes the various ice shapes with the various coverings to melt. Students will observe and record results.
The students will
Coring trees is a way of learning about trees without cutting them down. When a tree is cored, the rings are examined to learn about the history and growth of a tree. In this lesson students will participate in a hands-on activity to help them investigate what information can be gained by studying and comparing tree core samples collected
This is a food web activity that I developed after my spring 2006 TREC expedition on board the USCGC Healy, for 30 days in the Bering Sea. It is a set of lessons that include setting the context with a map activity, researching the organisms in, on, and around the Bering Sea, reading an article or book on connections between