| A Quick Background to the Last Ice Age [ Mature Teens ] - Features a summary of the sequence of events for the last 130,000 years, from the time the ice started melting. http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/nerc130k.html |
| All About Glaciers [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Get the scoop on everything you wanted to know about glaciers. http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/glaciers/quickfacts.html |
| Cracking the Ice Age [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Web site related to the NOVA television program about the big sweep and panorama of the Ice Age. Links to other resources. (November, 1997) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ice/ |
| Glacier [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - General introduction to glaciers, the Antarctic, and related topics in weather, climate, oceans, and geology, from Rice University. http://www.glacier.rice.edu/ |
| Glaciers [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Learn what a glacier is, how it forms, how it moves, and what types of glaciers exist in the world. http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/glaciers/questions/index.html |
| Glaciers [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - A interactive exercise that demonstrate different types of glaciers, how they form and flow. http://www.eoascientific.com/campus/earth/multimedia/glaciers/view_interactive |
| Glaciers - Photos [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - See the inside of a glacier and look at over 20 other glacier related pictures provided by the College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University. http://www.cnr.colostate.edu/ER.13Mar03/fac-staff/ajf/physical/topics/glacier/photos/photos.html |
| Glaciers and the Glacial Ages [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Learn what a glacier is, how it forms, and how frequently ice ages occur. http://www.uvm.edu/whale/GlaciersGlacialAges.html |
| Ice Age [ Kids/Teens ] - Interesting facts about the ice ages are written like newspaper articles, with pictures showing how this history has been discovered. Includes details of what life was like for animals at the time. http://www.dmns.org/main/minisites/iceage/index.html |
| Ice Age Explanation [ Mature Teens ] - Briefly describes what caused them, how the ice built up, and what later made it melt. http://culter.colorado.edu/~saelias/glacier.html |
| Ice Ages [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - A museum exhibit explains what they are, and how and why they occur. Includes animation of the retreating ice in North America. http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/ |
| Orbital Changes: The Ice Ages [ Kids/Teens ] - Outlines one possible explanation for the big change in climate that resulted in a cold period lasting thousands of years. Includes suggestions for finding out the evidence for this idea. http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/dinosaurflr/orbital_change2.html |
| The Last Ice-Age [ Kids ] - Explains what ice ages are, and describes some of the animals that might have lived in Canada at the time. http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/iceage.htm |
| Tongass National Forest: Glaciers and Icefields [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Heading north to Alaska means going to glacier heaven! Discover how glaciers are formed and just what glaciers do. http://www.fs.fed.us/r10/tongass/forest_facts/resources/geology/icefields.htm |
| Virtually the Ice Age [ Kids ] - An interactive exploration of what northern England might have been like 50,000 years ago. Includes virtual tour, discoveries, quizzes and pictures. http://www.creswell-crags.org.uk/virtuallytheiceage/ |
| Wikipedia: Ice Ages [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Encyclopedia article outlines the theories used to explain the ice ages, and the effects of the interglacial periods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age |