Image Pairs for the Changing Planet: Melting Glaciers Classroom Activity

Print the following pages, cut apart the glacier images, and laminate for classroom use. For your reference, the information about each photo pair is below.

Please refer to activity directions on Windows to the Universe for more information about classroom implementation of this activity. The web page that describes this activity is: http://www.windows2universe.org/teacher_resources/melting_glaciers.html

PairYear PhotographerSourcePage

1

Muir Glacier

Lat: 59.0783

Long: -136.3606

1941

William O. Field

American Geographical Society

2 top

2004

Bruce F. Molina

USGS

2 bottom

2

Carroll Glacier

Lat: 59.0842

Long: -136.6449

1906

Charles Will Wright

USGS

3 top

2003

Bruce F. Molina

USGS

3 bottom

3

Holgate Glacier

Lat: 59.8711

Long: -149.9186

1909

Ulysses S. Grant

USGS

4 top

2004

Bruce F. Molina

USGS

4 bottom

4

McCarty Glacier

Lat: 59.7700

Long: -150.2208

1909

Ulysses S. Grant

USGS

5 top

2004

Bruce F. Molina

USGS

5 bottom

5

Muir Glacier Lat: 59.0783

Long: -136.3606

1899

Grove Karl Gilbert

USGS

6 top

2003

Ron Karpilo

National Park Service

6 bottom

6

Toboggan Glacier

Lat: 61.0217

Long: -148.2769

1909

Sidney Paige

USGS

7 top

2000

Bruce F. Molina

USGS

7 bottom

7

Muir Glacier

Lat: 59.0783

Long: -136.3606

1976

Bruce F. Molina

USGS

8 top

2003

Bruce F. Molina

USGS

8 bottom

8

Penderson Glacier

Lat: 59.8928

Long: -149.7805

1909

Ulysses S. Grant

USGS

9 top

2004

Bruce F. Molina

USGS

9 bottom

All glacier images are all from Alaska, U.S. and were published by the National Snow and Ice Data Center - World Data Center for Glaciology (www.nsidc.org)

Page numbers listed above correspond to the numbers on the following pages.

Muir Glacier

1941

2004

Carroll Glacier

1906

2003

Holgate Glacier

1909

2004

McCarty Glacier

1909

2004

Muir Glacier

1899

2003

Toboggan Glacier

1909

2000

Muir Glacier

1976

2003

Penderson Glacier

1909

2004


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