Glaciers

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Adjust mountain snowfall and temperature to see the glacier grow and shrink. Use scientific tools to measure thickness, velocity and glacial budget.

Explain how environmental conditions (temperature and precipitation) impact glacial mass budget; identify where snow accumulates in a glacier and justify why.
Explain how ice moves within a glacier; describe and illustrate flow within a glacier.
Explain or illustrate (demonstrate) how glaciers (i) stay at equilibrium, (ii) grow/advance, (iii) shrink/retreat, and (iv) form; compare climatic conditions leading to each.
Determine and illustrate how multiple advance-retreat cycles affect the record of glacial end moraines.

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Title	Authors	Level	Type	Subject
Investigating Climate Change at the Macroscopic and Microscopic Level	Amy Rouinfar	HS MS	Lab	Earth Science
Glaciers Earth Science	Ryan Tucek	HS	Lab	Earth Science
Alignment of PhET sims with NGSS	Trish Loeblein	HS	Other	Chemistry Earth Science Biology Physics
How do PhET simulations fit in my middle school program?	Sarah Borenstein	MS	Other	Physics Biology Chemistry Earth Science
MS and HS TEK to Sim Alignment	Elyse Zimmer	HS MS	Other	Physics Chemistry Biology
Investigating Glaciers	John Judkins	HS MS	Guided Lab	Earth Science
Simulações no Ensino de Fisica	Carla Tavares	HS	HW Demo Discuss Guided Other Lab MC	Astronomy Earth Science Physics