Unit 3: A Look Inside and Underneath the Glacier part of Polar PASS:Teaching Materials:Module 1: Exploring the Glacier Basin System
A Look Inside and Underneath the Glacier In Unit 3 students continue to appreciate the role of water within the glacier basin system. Students learn about the many fascinating and unique surface melt features that ...

Unit 1: Overview of the Glacier Basin System part of Polar PASS:Teaching Materials:Module 1: Exploring the Glacier Basin System
Overview of the Glacier Basin System Unit 1 introduces students to the geography of the Arctic and Greenland, zooming from the Pan-Arctic scale down to the individual glacier basin scale. Several pre-class videos ...

Unit 5: System Response to Climate Change part of Polar PASS:Teaching Materials:Module 1: Exploring the Glacier Basin System
System Response to Climate Change With a firm understanding of the components of a glacier basin system, the seasonal changes, and the influence on ice mass gain and loss, students in Unit 5 are challenged to ...

Unit 4: Future ice margin response to climate part of Polar PASS:Teaching Materials:Module 2: Long-term Spatial Transformations of the Glacier Basin System
Future ice margin response to climate For Unit 4, students consider the current volume of the Greenland Ice Sheet and also turn their attention to the future of the ice sheet. Using scientific reading and exploring ...

PolarPASS: Polar Places and Spaces part of Polar PASS
Earth's polar environments are undergoing rapid change during the 21st century and scientists have generated important new data and made groundbreaking insights. Despite growing interest to bring ...

Unit 1: Reconstructing Past Ice Margin Positions part of Polar PASS:Teaching Materials:Module 2: Long-term Spatial Transformations of the Glacier Basin System
Reconstructing Past Ice Margin Positions In this Unit 1, students begin to understand longer timescales of landscape transformation. They begin by making hypotheses about landscape features and then evolve their ...

Unit 3: Distinguishing between natural climate variability and anthropogenic forcings part of Polar PASS:Teaching Materials:Module 2: Long-term Spatial Transformations of the Glacier Basin System
Distinguishing between natural climate variability and anthropogenic forcings Unit 3 begins with student reading and exploration of satellite imagery to discuss differences between natural and human-induced glacial ...

Unit 4: Transition from Glacier Margin to Land part of Polar PASS:Teaching Materials:Module 1: Exploring the Glacier Basin System
Transition from Glacier Margin to Land Students dive further into the seasonal pattern of glacier meltwater production. By comparing river basin discharge data from basins with more or less current glaciation, ...

Unit 2: Processes of ice margin retreat and elevation/thickness change part of Polar PASS:Teaching Materials:Module 2: Long-term Spatial Transformations of the Glacier Basin System
Processes of ice margin retreat and elevation/thickness change In Unit 2, students begin to use GIS as a research and learning tool, exploring the landscape surface via satellite imagery and identifying erosional ...

Teaching Materials part of Polar PASS:Teaching Materials
Module Overview PolarPASS modules use authentic data and imagery and creative activities to assist students with learning while exploring the land and ice near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. Geographic Information ...