Global Climate Change and Sea Level Rise

Lesson Plan Overview

Students will learn via experimentation that ice formations on land will cause a rise in sea level when they melt, whereas ice formations on water will not cause a rise in sea level when they melt. Students will learn that ice is less dense than water and that ice displaces water equal to the mass of the ice.

Source: California Academy of Sciences
Grades: 3-5 6-8

Literacy Principles:

OLP#6: The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected.

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