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What Causes Sea Level Rise?
Duration: 60 minutes
Grade Levels: 5-8
Design an experiment to find out how ice on land and ice in the ocean influence sea level rise. Collect and graph data while learning about density, displacement, and climate change.
Grade Levels: 5-8
Duration: 60 min
Concepts/Skills: Arguing from Evidence, Physical Science, Sea Level Rise
Objectives: Students will:
- Plan, carry out, and interpret results of a scientific investigation.
- Explain why melting land ice causes sea levels to rise, but melting sea ice does not.
- Recognize the far-reaching effects of global climate change.
Climate Standards Connections
| Next Generation Science Standards | ||
| Grade | Performance Expectation | Description |
| 5 | 5-PS1-1 | Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen. |
| Climate Change Connections | greenhouse gases | |
| Clarification Statement & Assessment Boundary | Examples of evidence could include adding air to expand a basketball, compressing air in a syringe, dissolving sugar in water, and evaporating salt water. Assessment does not include the atomic-scale mechanism of evaporation and condensation or defining the unseen particles. | |