Ice age animals of the tundra
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Ice Ages
(for age 7–9 year-olds)
Resources
- Ice Ages Powerpoint (ppt - 16.5 MB)
The Ice Ages presentation is divided into five parts:- Part 1. - What is an ice age?
- What are glaciers?
- Examples of glaciers around the world
- Moraines
- When did ice ages occur?
- Part 2. - How was the Ice Age first discovered?
- Clues:
- The flood - Giant boulders
- The Alps - Advance and retreat of glaciers
- Scotland - Glacial striations
- Ice Age Landforms - U-shaped valleys
- Fossils - Mammoths, beetles, pollen
- Chemistry - Light and heavy oxygen - Foraminifera
- Ice Archive - Annual layers in Ice Core
- Air Bubbles - Greenhouse gas
- Clues:
- Part 3. - The last glaciation (The last Ice Age)
- Time Scale
- 20,000 years before present to present day
- Ice Age Europe
- Geography
- Coast
- Plants
- Mammals
- Neanderthals
- Ancestors
- Melt water
- Sea Level
- Rebound
- Part 4. - Why do ice ages occur?
- Many ice ages
- Orbital wobbles
- Three good ideas
- Part 5. Brain Challenge: How can we use beetles living today to find out past climate?
The presentation can therefore be divided into several parts if need be for time constraints.
The notes are a guide on how to explain each slide. These are typed in normal print.
- Part 1. - What is an ice age?
- Activity Sheets What Ice Age animal am I? Test sheets for children, available as Word document or pdf.
