Ice Flows Game GA Conference 2018

1. Workshop
10

2. Anne Le Brocq, Senior Lecturer,
University of Exeter
Alan Parkinson, Head of Geography,
King’s Ely Junior
Using games-based learning to
introduce complex physical systems

3. Available to play in a browser or as an app.

4. Structure of the workshop
• Introductions (we’ve done those)
• The Background
• The game
• Have a play
• Introduction to the resource pack
• Feedback and questions

6. Importance of ice sheets
• Sea level change
• Ocean/Climate influence
NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
The Daily Conversation (youtube)

7. Relevance…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/02/underwater-melting-of-antarctic-
ice-far-greater-than-thought-study-finds?CMP=share_btn_tw

8. Some
context:
Larsen ‘A’
and ‘B’
and ‘C’
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/larsen-ice-shelf-collapse-decline-maps/

9. Brunt Ice Shelf – Halley VI base
relocation (and not manned during
last winter season)
Halloween Crack
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2017/10/Halloween_crack

10. Larsen ‘C’
At the time of the calving of Larsen C, in July 2017
BBC News released an interview with Professor Helen
Fricker from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
Listen to it here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-
environment-40444569/ice-shelves-need-to-calve-
icebergs
It provides a good introduction to the significance of
the cryosphere to other parts of the world, and the
reasons why ice breaks off.

11. The Game

12. Growth and decay – two main processes
(feedback and pace of these changes)

13. Pick up a penguin, and have a play…

14. Teacher Guide
Iceberg of Understanding
Enquiry questions
Keeping the Geography in the geography
lesson

16. Why a game?
• Controlling the variables – seeing the impact
of your actions
• ‘Engagement’ for younger students
• Modelling

17. The cryosphere is a term used to describe those components of the Earth system that contain a substantial fraction
of water in its frozen state, and the areas where they are found.

18. The characters…

19. The resources
• Ice Flows Game:
http://www.iceflowsgame.com

20. The cryosphere is a term used to describe those components of the Earth system that contain a substantial fraction
of water in its frozen state, and the areas where they are found.

21. Further resources
• Spotify playlist of Icy songs
• Resources
• Animation of ice shelf movement:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/18
/climate/antarctica-ice-melt-climate-change.html
• How big is Larsen ‘C’ ice shelf? German interactive
map tool

22. Using Earth NullSchool to explore the
temperatures

23. Further resources
• Discovering Antarctica
http://www.discoveringantarctica.org

24. Size calculator (comparison)
https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/eisberg-groessenvergleich/

25. Questions

26. I got involved with this project
as a consultant to the GA
Applications to Julie Beattie of
the GA if you’d like to join the
list of consultants