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Lake Ice-Out Lesson 3 - Ice-Out Day

Provided by: Gulf of Maine Research Institute |Published on: August 28, 2023

Lesson Plans Grades 6-8

Synopsis

This lesson explores what ice-out day is, how it has changed in Sebago Lake and across the country since 1905, and how changes in Sebago Lake are impacting the local ice fishing derby.
Students will engage with interactive media in order to answer multiple choice and free-response questions, create and analyze dot plots, and draw their own trend line.

Subjects: Physics, Earth and Space Sciences, Mathematics

Authors: Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Region: North America, USA - Northeast, United States, Maine, Maine - Coastal

Languages: English

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Additional Prerequisites

For the interactive media, you must click on the words "Tap text to listen" if you want to utilize text-to-speech.
Students have to make a copy of "Lake Ice-Out Student Sheet: Lesson 3" in order to complete it.

Differentiation

Before administering the lesson, the teacher could ask questions about ice-out days in order to gauge misconceptions and prior knowledge.
Teachers could create a summative assessment based on the main concepts of this lesson.
Before administering the lesson, the teacher could clarify some words in the glossary.
This lesson could supplement a classroom discussion on how changes in ice-out days can impact local economies.
Consider using this lesson before a lesson about the three states of water, the importance of hydrogen bonds, or lake ecosystems.

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