I finally found the web activity!

After reading this article and the review by Tina Harris, I was excited to try the web activity. The link in the article is no longer active. However, the web activity can be found at http... See More

After reading this article and the review by Tina Harris, I was excited to try the web activity. The link in the article is no longer active. However, the web activity can be found at http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_int_greenland/ and other related resources are found at http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.watcyc.greenland/. The web activity described in the article is perfect for my high school earth science class. It presents a summary of the data from the GISP2 project and allows them to interpret this data and draw conclusions about the Earth's climate. It provides a great deal of information about paleoclimates at a reading level my freshman will be able to comprehend.

Lots of information on paleoclimate

This article and the associated website have lots of background information on how scientists determine climate in the past from a variety of sources, especially ice cores. BTW the websit... See More

This article and the associated website have lots of background information on how scientists determine climate in the past from a variety of sources, especially ice cores. BTW the website has moved. Go to http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/iecws/materials_wright_dev.html and then scroll down and click on "GISP2 online activity" In this way, you can see other lesson resources associated with the sponsoring organization. The information is great, the questions are set up to build knowledge, but the activity itself is like an online worksheet - direct instruction. If your goal is background information on how coring works and how data is interpreted, this has it. But with a few modifications a new lesson could be made in an inquiry or project-based webquest using some of the slides and some of the wonderful resource links at the end of the online program.