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Homes Heating Up- A Hermit Crab Investigation

Overview

In this lesson, students will conduct an investigation to discover how the behavior of hermit crabs change as water temperature changes.

Goals

Students will understand and practice the steps of a science investigation through an investigation about hermit crabs’ reaction to changing ocean temperature. Students will understand that as ocean temperatures increase some animals will adapt and some will

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Antarctic
Less than a week
Elementary and Up
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Help, Our House is Sinking! Engineering Solutions for Thawing Permafrost

Objectives

The objectives of this lesson are: * Students will know that climate change is happening most quickly in Arctic regions. * Students will know that a warming climate is causing permafrost to thaw. * Students will know that thawing permafrost is impacting infrastructure in Alaska, including roads and buildings. * Students will design an engineering solution to create stable

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Arctic
Less than a week
Elementary and Up
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Glaciers, Drones, and 3D Printers, Oh My!

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Using New Technology to Study Climate Change

As science and technology continue to advance, the ways in which scientists and engineers study the surface of the Earth and how it will change in the future, changes along with it. The field of climate change science is continuing to benefit as advances in technology lead to a greater understanding of

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Arctic
Less than a week
All Aged
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Bowhead Whales: An Introduction to Our Whales Unit

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This First Grade unit on the bowhead whale has been created to support the knowledge of children living within a whaling community. The unit focuses on the basic components of understanding the bowhead in a more scientific manner. Although my students know the bowhead in a uniquely intimate way because of their environmental and subsistence circumstances, our goal

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Arctic
More than a week
Elementary and Up
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A Whale of Importance to the Arctic People

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Elizabeth Eubanks M.Ed (working with Angela Gilmour, Anne Jensen, Danielle Dickson, Leslie Pierce, and Rachel Potter) connected with PolarTREC and NOAA TAS. This lesson is inspired by the need to share the importance of the Bowhead Whale in relation to the culture of arctic people. It is a portion of an entire collaborative unit to be utilized between

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Arctic
Less than a week
All Aged
n/a
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Foraging for Fish in a Melting Arctic

Overview

This engaging topic and active game is inspired by a long-term scientific study of Black Guillemots nesting on an island near Barrow, AK. It introduces the life cycle of the Black Guillemot, how it raises its young, and the adaptations it is making to adjust to life in a changing Arctic.

Objectives

By the end of this

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Arctic
Less than a week
Elementary and Up
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Family Polar Fun Day

Overview

Plan and run a family fun afternoon or evening with several hands-on activities. Students help run the activity stations and share what they have learned about the Polar Regions. A great culminating activity for a unit on the Arctic, Antarctica, or both, and a fun way to involve families in the learning experience.

Objectives

The students will

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Arctic
Less than a week
Elementary and Up
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Rings of Life

Overview

Rings of life is a comparative lesson allowing students to investigate growth rings in walleye Pollock from the Bering Sea and Ponderosa Pine trees.

Objectives

Students will be able to compare and contrast growth rings on fish and trees, showing just one of the tools scientists use to monitor the health of different ecosystems. Students will also be able

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Arctic
Less than a week
Elementary and Up
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Chill Out – All About Ice in the Bering Sea

Through activities, video observation, experimentation and the construction of a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) students will learn about the chemical and physical properties of sea ice.

Objectives

Students will be able to answer main questions of where sea ice is, how it is formed, why the ice is important, how it is classified by indigenous people and scientists, how

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Arctic
More than a week
All Aged
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Who Are These People?

Overview

This activity is designed to make a connection between a group of scientists and the students.

Objective

Students will learn that scientists are people too.

Preparation

The teacher will need to contact a group of scientists to make sure they would like to participate in the project and to explain to them the goals of the

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Arctic
Less than a week
All Aged
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