Glaciers | FREE Earth Science Reading Comprehension Passage & Questions

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Glaciers give students a vivid way to connect Earth science to real data by showing how ice forms, flows, and reshapes landscapes while storing most of the planet’s fresh water and recording past climates in ice cores. A focused reading passage with questions helps learners prepare to learn about core ideas like accumulation and ablation, albedo, moraines and U shaped valleys, sea level change, and freshwater resources, this will help them get ready to apply their knowledge to maps, photos, and simple graphs. The passage includes an engaging image with scaffolded questions that move from recall to cause and effect to interpreting evidence. This format aligns naturally with NGSS MS ESS2 and HS ESS2, strengthens science literacy and numeracy, and turns current headlines about melting ice into age appropriate, evidence based learning students can use in class discussions and simple investigations.

This glaciers science article provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can help your students learn all about glaciers. For digital, you can provide a Google doc copy for ease of submission or a Microsoft word version as well. In this glaciers article with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking.

THIS GLACIERS ARTICLE CAN BE USED SO MANY WAYS:

Useful for substitute (sub) teaching
To extend students
To increase scientific literacy in your class
A weekly reading task
Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast
To inspire students on a particular topic
Give a selection of these articles for students to choose from

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS GLACIERS ARTICLE:

3 page Word doc teacher version with answers
2 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
3 page PDF teacher version with answers
2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so)
3 page Google doc teacher version with answers
2 page Google doc student version with room to fill answers (text boxes)

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I am very proud of this series of science articles and they are rich with information and wonder at the majesty of science. Each science article includes a fun fact(s) to add to the knowledge gained from this article. Formatted in an easy to read and digest manner, each paragraph is numbered to help with referencing and each question answer has a paragraph reference number to point to the specific information (where applicable).