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What's Your Proof?

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Antarctic ecosystems are undergoing change at unprecedented levels. In this lesson, students will use real data to evaluate the effect of climate change on Antarctic fish. Denise Hardoy created this lesson plan after joining Dr. Anne Todgham’s team studying Antarctic Fish Development Under Future Ocean Conditions in October/November of 2019.

Objectives

  • Given data sets, graphs, videos, and
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Arctic Antarctic
About a week
Middle School and Up
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Creatures Under Foot: Soil Chemistry and Microscopic Animals

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Students will collect soil samples and analyze them with some of the same procedures used by researchers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Soil microfauna (e.g. nematodes) will be extracted from the samples using a Baermann funnel. Students will compare their own data to published data from researchers working in Antarctica.

Objectives

  • Collect and analyze soil samples for
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Antarctic
About a week
High school and Up
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Invasive Species Under Ice

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Antarctica is the coldest, driest place on Earth with a fairly limited number of native species which have adapted to these extreme conditions over millions of years. As a result, it's not very likely that a non-native species would survive there . . . right? Actually ever since exploration and exploitation of the Antarctic region began in the 1800's

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Antarctic
About a week
High school and Up
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Careers in Photography and Polar Science

In this lesson students will learn how to use photography to support scientific research by documenting collected measurement information through observational photography. This lesson was written for a Photography course, to be taught in a lab with access to either a darkroom or computers/printers. Alternatively this lesson could be modified to work in a non-photography class, by removing the photography

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Antarctic
About a week
High school and Up
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Create a Topographic Profile of Beacon Valley

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Beacon Valley is recognized by scientists as one of the most Mars-like environments on Earth. This lesson plan was created so that students could have the opportunity to examine the same landforms that scientists use to study the processes that operate in both of these extreme environments. There are two parts to this lesson. Teachers may choose to

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Antarctic
About a week
Middle School and Up
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Five Themes of the Geography of Antarctica

Overview

We go places, but what do we do with the billions of snippets of information we absorb? How do we process the information so that it means something to us when we can no longer be there? As a geographer, my objective was to be able to observe, participate and categorize the billions of pieces of visual information

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Antarctic
n/a
Middle School and Up
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Biodiversity of the Antarctic Region: Is it a Losing Battle?

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Case studies provide a brief overview or examination of events that impact or alter the way people function and live day to day within the human and physical environment. They help by providing students with “real world” examples that relate to the theoretical content they are studying.

Objective

Students will prepare a case study illustrating the impact

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Antarctic
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High school and Up
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