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Don't Clam Up - The Effects of Warming Seas on Respiration and Biomass

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This lesson plan is designed to teach students about the importance of the benthic community in the shallow portions of the Arctic and how climate change may affect their respiration. One of the dominant benthic animals in the Arctic, the bivalve Macoma sp., is an important food source for higher trophic level organisms such as walrus and Spectacled Eiders

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Arctic
About a week
High school and Up
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What's On the Bottom?

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This lesson plan is designed to teach students about benthic biodiversity in the Arctic by analyzing data from the Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO). Although you can’t see them from the surface, the organisms found on the ocean floor are important indicators of ecosystem health and provide information about productivity. Students will explore sites throughout the Bering and Chukchi Seas

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Arctic
About a week
High 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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Tree Cookies

Overview

Students will measure and analyze features of two different species of trees by using their cross-sections (cookies). Further analyses will allow students to graph their results and apply the knowledge gained to an understanding of tree growth, health and diversity.

Objectives

  • Students will use and understand the following terms: radius, diameter, circumference and area of a circle.
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Arctic
About a week
Middle School and Up
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Plankton Parents

This series of three labs challenges students to think about the role of plankton in different ecosystems and waterways in the world. By modeling the research methods of scientists on the Healy icebreaker, students can conduct a small-scale change study to examine reproductive behavior of an isolated type of local plankton.

Objective

Students will learn what plankton is and

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Arctic
About a week
Elementary and Up
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Touring the Poles

Overview


The students' task is to produce a brochure for both the Arctic and the Antarctic. These brochures will be used by the representatives of "Here We Go Travel" to advertise the virtues of traveling to both polar regions. The students will produce a 45 second radio spot that they will write and record as part of their overall

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Arctic
About a week
Middle School and Up
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The "Arctic Web Pages" Mini-Project

Overview


Each group of 2-4 students will research an arctic topic from a list, build a small web page devoted to that topic, link the group’s page to other groups’ relevant pages, and advocate for change around an issue that is important to the topic.

Objective

  1. Students will understand the complexity and vulnerability of Arctic ecosystems

    2
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Arctic
About a week
Middle School and Up
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Biodiversity of the Antarctic Region: Is it a Losing Battle?

Overview


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
n/a
High school and Up
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