Lake Ice-Out Lesson 3 - Ice-Out Day

• This lesson explores what ice-out day is, how it has changed in Sebago Lake and across the country since 1905, and how changes in Sebago Lake are impacting the local ice fishing derby.
• Students will engage with interactive media in order to answer multiple choice and free-response questions, create and analyze dot plots, and draw their own trend line.

Positives

• This lesson provides plenty of opportunities for student-centered learning.
• The interactive media has a text-to-speech option.

Additional Prerequisites

• For the interactive media, you must click on the words "Tap text to listen" if you want to utilize text-to-speech.
• Students have to make a copy of "Lake Ice-Out Student Sheet: Lesson 3" in order to complete it.
  

Differentiation

• Before administering the lesson, the teacher could ask questions about ice-out days in order to gauge misconceptions and prior knowledge.
• Teachers could create a summative assessment based on the main concepts of this lesson.
• Before administering the lesson, the teacher could clarify some words in the glossary.
• This lesson could supplement a classroom discussion on how changes in ice-out days can impact local economies.
• Consider using this lesson before a lesson about the three states of water, the importance of hydrogen bonds, or lake ecosystems.
  

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