Since creating a glacier or performing quarry activities in your own home or classroom can be difficult to say the least, below are some suggestions that we hope you will find useful as teaching tools. Extensions for Kames Discuss the processes responsible for the formation of a kame and describe how this glacial feature is characterized on a topographic map. Provide other topographic maps containing kames, and have the students identify them from their characteristic shape. Extensions for Eskers Discuss the processes responsible for the formation of eskers and describe how this glacial feature is characterized on a topographic map. Provide other topographic maps containing eskers, and have the students identify them from their characteristic shape.
Students can also collect samples of the sands and gravels for identification.
The students can try to estimate the relative distances that the sediments were transported by the glacier based on the degree of rounding and clast size. Extensions for Quarries Teachers and students can gather data concerning depth, texture and composition of rock layers. The students can then create a stratigraphic column based on the data gathered. The teacher could gather various rock samples from the quarry. The teacher could give the rock samples to the students without telling them what the rock is.