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Overview

My high school has a Science Club whose members visit local elementary schools and run various “stations” that (elementary) students visit for 10-15 minutes before rotating to a different one. This lesson is designed to be one those – a quick hitting, but engaging look into polar science that will stir the kids’ inherent curiosity and get them

Follow the Polar Expedition is a booklet designed for students to help them learn about the 2012 Chukchi Sea Offshort Monitoring in the Drilling Area (COMIDA) Hanna Shoal Ecosystem Study with PolarTREC teacher Deanna Wheeler. The expedition is August 5-25, 2012, aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter. The booklet has terms used on the ship as well as several activities

Overview

Students will engage in a hands-on activity to help them consider what students in a tropical climate do to prepare for recess compared with students who live in the interior of Alaska.

Objectives

Students will: * Compare what students in a tropical climate do to prepare for recess with students who live in the interior of Alaska. * Learn

Overview

Students will sing a song about guano's role in the ecosystem and the movement of energy and matter through the food chain.

Objective

Students will learn how energy and matter move and change in an ecosystem and how living things and matter interact.

Description

Lead the students in singing the song 'Without Guano There's No Life'

Overview

Students will sing a song about the effects of climate warming on changing ocean ecosystems.

Objective

To learn about ocean ecosystem health through song.

Description

Review the song ‘Where Have All the Coral Gone’ (attached), sung to the tune of ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone’.

Credits

Maggie Prevenas, prevenas [at] hawaiiantel.net

Overview

Students will sing a song to learn about ice algae and its role in the arctic ecosystem.

Objective

Students will learn about the Bering Sea arctic ecosystem, particularly the role of ice algae, plankton, krill, fish, birds and mammals through song.

Description

Review the song 'The Ice Algae Grew All Around' (attached), sung to the tune

Overview

Students will sing a song and engage in an active game to learn more about ice algae and its role in the arctic ecosystem.

Objective

Students will learn about the arctic ecosystem, particularly the roles of ice algae, plankton, krill, fish, birds, seals, whales and polar bears through song and active participation.

Preparation

Review the song

Overview

Students will sing a song about the Bering Sea ocean ecosystem.

Objective

To sing a fun science-themed song!

Preparation

* Teach students about the Bering Sea ecosystem or have them review journal entries from Maggie Prevenas’ PolarTREC expedition (see Resources section for address). * Hand out song sheet or project words onto a screen

Description

Overview

Students will create a bookmark to help them remember that diatoms (ice algae) are the main producers in the Bering Sea ecosystem.

Objective

To create a tangible reminder of how the Bering Sea ecosystem's main producers (diatoms and ice algae) use sunlight and transfer that into food energy for use by most other creatures that live there

Overview

Compare what students in a tropical climate do to prepare for recess with students who live in the interior of Alaska. Learn several consequences caused by sub zero temperatures. Create awareness that people are able to prepare for a cold environment by adding layers of clothes.

Objective

Compare what students in a tropical climate do to prepare