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Feasting on Faults

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Excerpt: This student lesson focuses on plate tectonics and large-scale system interactions, utilizing PolarTREC teacher Brian DuBay's Transantarctic Mountains expedition videos. Objectives: The student will investigate, make observations, and analyze geologic processes of plate tectonics. Key concepts...

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2013 End of Season Webinar

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Date: 9 May 2013
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Excerpt: This 1.5 hour webinar is a culminating event for the 2012-13/cohort 6 PolarTREC teachers and researchers. Participants commented on the impact of their expedition on their teaching and research practices.

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2013 Arctic Logistics Webinar

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Date: 7 May 2013
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Excerpt: This one hour webinar is for the 2013-14 PolarTREC teachers that are headed to the Arctic during the 2013 field season. The webinar addresses questions about logistics and participants share ideas on education and outreach plans.

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Clean Air - Good For Us and Our Environment

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Excerpt: Overview In this lesson, students will play a fun board game that teaches about the sources and types of some air pollutants, and how they affect the health of both people and the environment. Students will learn that not all pollutants are greenhouse gases. This game can be a lead-in for a...

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Tom Lane and Carbon Balance in Warming and Drying Tundra

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Date: 30 April 2013
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Excerpt: This one hour webinar is for students and the public hosted by Tom Lane. The team is studying carbon balance in warming and drying tundra in Healy, Alaska.

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Brian DuBay and the use of multimedia of polar education

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Date: 24 April 2013
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Excerpt: This one hour webinar is for educatorson the use of video and social media tools to bring polar science into the classroom. PolarTREC teacher Brian DuBay speaks in the context of his expedition to study the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica.

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Dr. Samantha Hansen and the tectonic history of the Transantarctic Mountains

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Date: 16 April 2013
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Excerpt: This one hour webinar is part of the online polar professional development course on physical science for educators. Dr. Hansen focuses on her research of the tectonic history of the Transantarctic Mountain in Antarctica.

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2013 Meet and Greet Webinar

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Date: 28 January 2013
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Excerpt: This one hour event introduces the 2013-14 PolarTREC teachers and researchers to the program and one another before orientation and the field season begins.

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Antarctica Day 2012 with Michael LeBaron and the Wissard Expedition, McMurdo Station

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Date: 3 December 2012
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Excerpt: This one hour live event is hosted by PolarTREC teacher Mike LeBaron and his team studying sub-glacial lakes and streams. The team is at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. This event was part of the December 2012 Antarctica Day celebration. The team also speaks about the importance of the Antarctic...

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Alex Eilers and Outreach for Weddell Seal Science

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Date: 9 November 2012
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Excerpt: This one hour webinar gives educators the opportunity to learn from PolarTREC educator Alex Eilers. Her projects for education and outreach on the weddell seal project with Dr. Burns provides great examples of bringing polar science to students and communities.

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Make Broader Impacts in Polar Science

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Date: 17 September 2012
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Excerpt: This one hour webinar is hosted by Polar Educators International for Polar Week - Fall 2012. Speakers are educators from the US and Canada sharing ideas for bringing polar science in classrooms. This webinar is for both educators and researchers.

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Elizabeth Eubanks and the Arctic Tundra Dynamics team in Costa Rica

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Date: 17 October 2012
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Excerpt: PolarTREC teacher Elizabeth Eubanks hosted a webinar from Costa Rica with Arctic Tundra Dynamics team from Barrow, AK. They are completing similiar research at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica.

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Jennifer Burns and the life science of Weddell Seals

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Date: 1 November 2012
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Excerpt: Dr. Jennifer Burns presented a one hour webinar about her work studying weddell seals in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. This presentation is for educators and in conjunction with the PolarTREC professional development course in Life Sciences.

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Polar Week: Connecting to the Poles with Brittany Potter, John Lenters, Reny Tyson and Karita Negandhi

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Date: 20 September 2012
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Excerpt: This one hour webinar is part of the International Polar Week celebrations sponsored by APECS, ARCUS and PEI. The presenters are young scientists that work in the Polar Regions. They shared information about their work as well as how they became interested in polar science.

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Polar Week: Connecting to the Poles with Allen Pope and Anne-Mathilde Thierry

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Date: 20 September 2012
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Excerpt: This one hour long event features researchers Karita Negandhi, Brittany Potter, John Lenters, and Reny Tyson. Karita has a marine biology background but currently studying Arctic thaw ponds, while Brittany and John study lakes in Barrow, Alaska and Reny studies humpback whales in Antarctica. This...

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Lisa Seff and the Oceanographic Conditions of Bowhead Whale Habitat Expedition

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Date: 7 September 2012
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Excerpt: This one hour live event is hosted by PolarTREC teacher Lisa Seff and her team studying the oceanographic conditions of bowhead whale habitat. The team is stationed in Barrow, Alaska.

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Writing Science in the Language Arts Classroom: Understanding the Food Web

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Excerpt: Overview Students will explain, both orally and in writing, a diagram used to illustrate a food web. Objectives Students will learn how language is used to communicate and is required to impart knowledge and sustain a healthy, traditional community in a modern world. Students will learn...

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Arctic Smorgasbord!

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Excerpt: Overview Students discover how different organisms that live in the Arctic depend on each other and what might happen to the food web if one or more organisms disappears from it. Students will build an arctic food web. Objectives Students will learn that organisms are part of a global food web...

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Is it Getting Warm in Here? Ecology - Carbon Cycle

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Excerpt: Objective Just as the increase in atmospheric CO2 is causing the global air temperture to rise, the container with the added CO2 will trap more heat inside and will show a higher internal temperature. Overview This activity/demonstration can be used directly following lessons on greenhouse...

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Flakes, Blobs and Bubbles - An Ice Core Art Project

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Snow Transitioning to Ice Diagram
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Excerpt: Fall 2012 Polar Week Flagship Activity! We hope that this activity will be completed by a multitude of classrooms, students, scientists, and teachers around the world in celebration of International Polar Week - a global celebration of the Polar Regions during the equinoxes each year. Please find...

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How is Glacier Goo Similar to a Real Glacier?

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Excerpt: Purpose Glaciers are slow-moving masses of ice that exist where more snow falls than melts. They occupy about 10% of the Earth’s land, mostly in Greenland and Antarctica. Here, glaciers can be as much as 2 miles thick and weigh more than millions of tons. As they move, glaciers can widen and...

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Conductivity of Freshwater vs. Seawater

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Excerpt: Purpose To compare the conductivity of freshwater and seawater. This is a lab activity, and students should be taught appropriate safety measures, including eye protection and safety while using electricity. Procedure Use the table in attached PDF to record your data. Put 100 mL of 3.5% NaCl...

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Acidity and Climate Change in the Arctic

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Excerpt: Purpose To apply prior knowledge of chemistry to the acidification of our oceans. This can be a computer lab or library based activity Procedure Set up a glass tank in your classroom and grow a population of algae in water. Local pet supply stores will most likely give you some for free from...

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2013 - 2014 Application Informational Webinar

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Date: 9 August 2012
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Excerpt: This 1+ hour webinar details the PolarTREC program, requirements, and application process. Also addresed are specific questions about the 2013-14 field season and applications.

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Missy Holzer and the High Arctic Change Expedition

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Date: 7 August 2012
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Excerpt: This one hour webinar is conducted by PolarTREC alumni Missy Holzer. She highlighted her work with the High Arctic Change expedition 2008 and bringing inquiry-based science into her classroom. This webinar is part of the C-ISE online professional development course.

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