This week you should refer to the resources listed under Readings & Recommendations, and you need to complete the assignment listed under Event Study Assignment & Rubric. This week’s assignment focuses on …

• Reading and learning more about factors influencing global ice and sea ice
• Serving as a "Sphere Expert" to your Event Team
• Contributing your Sphere Group's knowledge on the interactions between the event, ice shelf disintegration, and your sphere
• Looking for possible interactions and interrelationships between the different spheres of the system 
• Writing causal chains to synthesize the interactions

Suggested Activities for Your Students
 "It's Soup." Forecasting the Future. pp. 63-64

"Sea Level: The Highs & Lows Create the Flows." Welcome to NASA's Earth Science Enterprise: Educational Activity Supplement. pp. 59-65.

Have your students respond to the following statements: "The ocean can provide a good dumping ground for trash, radioactive wastes, or anything else people don't want to clutter the ground up with. Besides, there is all that ocean life to decompose things. So it's better to dump our wastes in the ocean."

Event Study Assignment & Rubric
This week you and your Event Team will look at sphere to sphere interactions and will synthesize your interactions into causal chains.

You may want to review the ice shelf disintegration event before you do the Event Study Assignment & Rubric.

Read: Forecasting the Future. pp. 27-33.

Read: "Polar Ice."
Welcome to NASA's Earth Science Enterprise: Educational Activity Supplement. pp. 67-70. 

Recommended Web Sites: US Water News

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory

CRYSYS Educational Outreach