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Resources - Middle School and Up - Sorted by GradeResources - Middle School and Up - Sorted by Grade
  • Middle School and Up

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      Type: Activity
      Region: Arctic | Antarctic
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      Polar Explorer Activity
      A simple craft activity where students research an Arctic or Antarctic explorer and make index cards with pictures and information about the explorers on them. The cards are then connected by paper clips or string to make a dangling string for each explorer or expedition to be hung around the room.
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      Region: Arctic | Antarctic
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      PolarTREC Reflection Journals
      Students follow PolarTREC expeditions, and create their own journals of scientific discovery along the way.
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      Type: Activity
      Region: Arctic
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      Good-Bye My Island
      A collaborative learning lesson for students in grades 4-8. Students work in teams to summarize assigned chapters of a 16 chapter novel, about the last season of the King Island, Alaska native peoples seen through the eyes of a teenager girl. Project is multi-disciplinary.
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      Region: Arctic | Antarctic
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      Touring the Poles
      Have your students become travel consultants for the polar regions by producing a travel brochure and radio ad highlighting the virtues of the Arctic and the Antarctic.
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      Type: Article
      Region: Antarctic
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      Science Teacher Prepares for Polar Expedition
      Article covering Brandon Gillette's PolarTREC expedition.
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      Type: Lesson
      Region: Arctic
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      Shrunken Spotted Seal Measurement Fun
      Bringing one of these special seals in the classroom will give your students a firsthand opportunity to see what it is like to be a wildlife biologist, and use many science skills.
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      Region: Arctic | Antarctic
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      Geologists in Training
      Have your students practice being tsunami geologists as they learn the Laws of Stratigraphy!
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      Type: Lesson
      Region: Antarctic
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      Science in Antarctica
      6th to 12th grade learners will investigate and then present on the wide variety of science projects in Antarctica through the PolarTREC and the USAP websites.
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      Type: Lesson
      Region: Arctic
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      You are the Archaeologist
      Kids get to BE an archaeologist!
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      Type: Lesson
      Region: Arctic | Antarctic
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      Mini-Ocean Bathymetric Mapping Research Cruise
      Students work in Expedition Teams to plan, execute and report on a simulated Ocean Research Cruise!
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