Students can express ideas about where there is ice on the Earth Students can find images of Earth on the WWW and download them. Students can use a search engine at certain sites. Paper and pencils a copy of the online world map for each student a data chart for each student unless you have students create their own charts. Start with five guesses. If you have only one or two computers to use, you can assign a small group of students to investigate a single Earth Image Data Set and report their findings to the class.
Students can access the computers on a time-share basis, i.e. one group at a time.
Students may need hints about using search engines. See instructions at the specific sites for more details.