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A Day in the Field: Collecting Ice Cores

Overview

Students will engage in a virtual field experience on HuascarĂ¡n Mountain in Peru, learning about how ice cores are collected and stored.

Lesson Preparation

Refer to Lesson Materials

* Copies of Worksheets
* Computers for students

Procedure


1. Read National Geographic Encyclopedia Entry Paleoclimatology and answer questions
2. Watch video Recovering Ice Cores (link in Resources).
3. Complete virtual

Resource Details
Lesson
Arctic Antarctic
About 1 period
High school and Up
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STEM Experience Report - Sian Proctor

The report is written by teacher participants upon return from their field expedition portion of the PolarTREC program. It summarizes the benefit of the expedition to the teacher, a description of activities, and a summary of how teachers plan to link this experience in classrooms and communities. This is a public document that will be posted in teacher portfolios and

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Report
Arctic
About 1 period
All Aged
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Arctic Stories

As the homepage of the website describes, "The beauty of the Arctic, its precious and fragile nature, its critical role in maintaining a stable climate for the planet, and the rapid rate of change that is occurring there must all be conveyed to the general public. Here, through digital story telling, we put a human face on science, life, societies

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Web Link
Arctic
n/a
All Aged
n/a
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Kuril Biocomplexity Project

The Kuril Biocomplexity Project is a National Science Foundation-funded research project led by the University of Washington and being conducted by a team of American, Japanese and Russian scholars and students who are examining a 5000-year history of human-environmental interactions along the Kuril Island chain in the northwest Pacific Ocean. This is the link to the project website.

Resource Details
Web Link
Arctic
n/a
All Aged
n/a
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You are the Archaeologist

Overview


In this lesson, students learn about what archaeologists do and then practice implementing these skills with "real artifacts".

Objective

Students will:

* be able to define an artifact and an archaeologist.

* use evidence to support their decisions about the origin and use of an unknown item.

Preparation


Some of the objects that have worked well

Resource Details
Lesson
Arctic
About 1 period
Middle School and Up
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Related Members

  • Misty Nikula (2)
  • Betsy Wilkening (1)
  • Bridget Ward (1)
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Expeditions

  • Historical Ecology for Risk Management 2014 (1)
  • Kuril Islands Biocomplexity (1)
  • Weddell Seals: Growing Up on Ice (1)

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  • Archaeology and Anthropology (15)
    • Climate Change (11)
    • General Archaeology and Anthropology (2)
    • Language & Communication (1)
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