Wright Center Developed Educational Materials
Glaciers, Climate, and the Landscape
Ever wonder about ice ages? Climate change, perhaps? If so, take a look at Zach Smith's book, Glaciers, Climate, and the Landscape to learn more about the forces involved in transforming the surface of our planet!
Climate Change Poster
Wright Center Materials - Cryosphere 2007
- Glacier NP, Teacher Resource website - from GNP ranger, Laura Law
- Additional Materials
- Overhead Transparencies
- Grinnell Glacier Activities**recommended DLESE and Carleton College**
- Stages of Succession
- Games
- Climate Game
- GISP2 Online Activity **recommended by DLESE, WGBH and Carleton College**
- Understanding Relative and Absolute Dating: The Age of Snow/Ice or Sediment Layers
- Slide Sets
- Antarctica-US ITASE (Images courtesy of USITASE program and NSF; Zip file format - 1.12MB)
- Alaska-JIRP (Images courtesy of JIRP and NSF; Zip file format - 779kb)
- PowerPoint Presentations (download PowerPoint viewer)
- Warming, Melting and the IPY by Bob Bindschadler, NASA Glaciologist (14.3MB)
- Glacier National Park - Crown of the Continent (24.6MB)
- Zach Smith - Cryosphere 2007 (7.2MB)
- Cosmic Climate Change (27.1MB Zip file)
- ISS EarthKAM - Change Over Time with Photos from Space (15.9MB)
- Ecological Effects of Environmental Change (63.8MB Zip file)
Wright Center Materials - Hydrosphere 2006
- Workshop Overview (PowerPoint file format - 25.8MB)
- Light Extinction (PowerPoint file format from National Geographic 1.5MB)
- Ecological Limiting Factors (PowerPoint file format - 28kb)
- Reef Fish (PowerPoint file format - 4.7MB)
- Virtual Reef (PowerPoint file format - 25.6MB)
- Reef Colors (Flash animation from National Geographic - 3.2MB)
- Tao of Journaling
- Climate Reconstruction Using Foraminifera Contained in Deep Sea Sediments
- Creating Carbonic Acid
- Sketching with Lines and Words
- Movie Trailer
- Healthy Oceans, Healthy Humans (a web-based video, narrated by Meryl Streep)
- Credits
Wright Center Materials - Hydrosphere 2005
- Workshop Overview (PowerPoint file format - 25.8MB)
- Light Extinction (PowerPoint file format from National Geographic 1.5MB)
- Ecological Limiting Factors (PowerPoint file format - 28kb)
- Reef Fish (PowerPoint file format - 4.7MB)
- Virtual Reef (PowerPoint file format - 25.6MB)
- Reef Colors (Flash animation from National Geographic - 3.2MB)
- Tao of Journaling
- Climate Reconstruction Using Foraminifera Contained in Deep Sea Sediments
- Creating Carbonic Acid
- Sketching with Lines and Words
- Movie Trailer
- Healthy Oceans, Healthy Humans (a web-based video, narrated by Meryl Streep)
- Credits
Wright Center Materials - Biosphere 2004
- Changes in Sea Level
- Beach Tree Activity
- Lichen Dating Activities from the British Lichen Society
- Understanding Relative and Absolute Dating: The Age of Snow/Ice or Sediment Layers
- 2004 Biosphere Workshop Bookmarks
Wright Center Materials - Cryosphere 2003
- Additional Materials
- Overhead Transparencies
- Grinnell Glacier Activities**recommended DLESE and Carleton College**
- Stages of Succession
- Games
- Climate Game
- GISP2 Online Activity **recommended by DLESE, WGBH and Carleton College**
- Slide Sets
- Antarctica-US ITASE (Images courtesy of USITASE program and NSF; Zip file format - 1.12MB)
- Alaska-JIRP (Images courtesy of JIRP and NSF; Zip file format - 779kb)
- PowerPoint Presentations (download PowerPoint viewer)
- Glacier National Park - Crown of the Continent (24.6MB)
- The Cryosphere (85.8MB)
- Cosmic Climate Change (27.1MB Zip file)
- ISS EarthKAM - Change Over Time with Photos from Space (15.9MB)
- Ecological Effects of Environmental Change (63.8MB Zip file)
- IECWS Hydrosphere 2006 at BBSR
- Videos
- Overview - Biosphere Workshop, Maine 2004 (Quicktime movie - 33MB)
- Overview - Cryosphere Workshop, Montana 2003 (Quicktime movie - 8.8MB)
- Marmot Cometh (Quicktime movie - 7.8MB)
- Stromatolites (Quicktime movie - 2.3MB)
- Drifting... (Quicktime movie - 5.1MB)