Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Earth System: Ice and Global Warming

9th - 10th
This video segment [3:04] adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center details how global warming may already be responsible for a significant reduction in glacial ice, which may in turn have significant consequences for the planet.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Antarctic Ice Movement: Part I

9th - 10th
This video segment [3:33] adapted from NOVA explains why ice sheets move. To find out how fast they move, scientists carve a tunnel through a glacier.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Antarctic Ice Movement: Part Ii

9th - 10th
Within Antarctic ice sheets are fast-moving streams of ice. This video segment [5:15] adapted from NOVA hypothesizes about how ice streams are the result of warming at the end of the last ice age.
Instructional Video
PBS

Nova: Fastest Glacier

9th - 10th
PBS site provides links to understanding how glacier movement can reveal the effects of global warming. Contains links to view satellite images of glaciers from space, a video clip and slide show about a science expedition to a glacier...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Antarctica: A Challenging Work Day

9th - 10th
What happens when the ground under your feet is ice and it's moving? This video segment adapted from NOVA features some of the dangers faced by scientists conducting research in Antarctica.