Glacial landforms: a teaching resource in maps and GIS

The authors describe a project to map the British-Irish ice sheet and suggests how the map, GIS and satellite imagery can be used with GCSE and post-16 geography students to investigate glacial landforms. The ultimate aim is to use our new knowledge to improve forecasting of the contribution of polar ice sheets to sea level rise in a warming world; here, however, we have given some examples of teaching activities to be used with the BRITICE map free poster and online resources (see below). The compiled record will help us better understand how ice sheets work. Since 2012 the BRITICE-CHRONO project has spent over 1500 person-days of fieldwork, collecting samples from 914 sites across the land and beneath the sea, and we have now dated some 639 important sites.