Teaching Climate Change with Ice Core Data: Draft Program

updated May 1, 2008

Monday, June 2

5:30 - 6:00 Opening reception with cash bar

6:00 - 7:15 Dinner

7:15 - 7:30 Welcoming remarks

7:30 - 8:30 Opening Plenary: Ice Cores, Climate Change and Polar See-saws by Richard Alley, Pennsylvania State University

8:30 - 9:30 Discussion

Tuesday, June 3

8:00 - 8:45 Goals for Workshop: Ours and Yours

8:45 - 10:00 Ice Sheets and Ice Cores by Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Pennsylvania State University

10:00 - 10:15 Break

10:15 - 11:15 How is the Atmospheric CO₂ Record Stored in Polar Ice Sheets? by Todd Sowers, Pennsylvania State University

11:15 - 1:30 Share Fair/Poster Session and Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 Accessing Ice Core data in the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program by Carrie Morrill, NOAA - Boulder

2:30 - 3:00 Break

3:00 - 3:45 What Makes a Good Activity? Lessons from Research on Learning and Classroom Experience by Cathy Manudca, Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College

3:45 - 5:15 Small groups work on activity designs and complete online description

5:15 - 6:00 Review of activity designs; closing thoughts

6:00 Activities available on-line for viewing

6:30 Group dinner in town

Wednesday, June 4

9:00 - 11:00 Optional Field Trip - Tour of Penn State's ice core labs