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Connecting Boreal Larch Forests to Coniferous Forests of the Rocky Mountain Region

Overview

Scientists in Siberia are seeing trends of more severe and widespread wildfires. By observing and measuring larch forests, they are trying to understand how the forests are changing. What do these trees need to survive? Are they getting what they need? Students will plant lodgepole pine seeds providing some with all the necessary components for survival and others missing

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Arctic
More than a week
Elementary and Up
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Meaningful Meteorology

Overview

Students will learn to:

* Observe and record weather patterns
* Process data by creating graphs/charts
* Compare actual weather data from the Siberian Arctic to local weather patterns, draw conclusions and make future predictions concerning weather patterns.

Big Idea

Why do people need to track weather over time?

Lesson Preparation

You will need a thermometer, tracking calendar, and

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Arctic
More than a week
Elementary and Up
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Phenology of Vegetation Inside and Outside the Classroom

Overview

After spending 5 weeks in the Arctic learning about tundra vegetation and phenology, Alejandra Martinez wanted to have her students observe the growth of plants in their school. In this lesson, students will grow plants in multiple locations and track their growth to compare their phenology.

Objectives

Students will learn what phenology is and make observations about plant growth

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Arctic
More than a week
Middle School and Up
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What’s With the Weather Over There?

Overview

For this activity, the students are going to draw on their own knowledge and experience with weather to predict the current temperatures around the world and then compare their predictions with real-time weather data from selected locations around the world. The students will then be provided with several factors that affect both daily changes in temperature and climatological temperature

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Antarctic
More than a week
High school and Up
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Investigating Penguin Populations of Antarctica

Overview

This investigation allows students to explore the geography of Antarctica and become an active member of the citizen science project, PenguinWatch.

Objectives

Students will:

* Examine maps of the World, South Polar Regions and Antarctica and interpret geographic location influence on climates
* Develop map skills by learning how to use longitude and latitude coordinates to locate 6 research

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Antarctic
More than a week
High school and Up
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Public Science Announcement

Students will find an expedition within the PolarTREC archives and use the research to make a video explaining why studying polar science is important.

Overview

PolarTREC supports teachers on expeditions with real scientists to study in the field. Studying in the Arctic and Antarctic environments can be a harsh and rewarding experience. I participated in Operation IceBridge, an aerial study

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Arctic
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High school and Up
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How Does Weather in Antarctica Impact Me?

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Most students, regardless of their grade level, live “in the moment,” concerned only with factors and issues that have an immediate and direct impact on their lives. This is, to a large degree, understandable given the pressures, demands, responsibilities and constraints placed on students during their high school academic years. However, as teachers, we are required to not only

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Antarctic
More than a week
All Aged
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Living the Life in Antarctica

To begin the process of educating my students on my upcoming expedition to Antarctica, I introduced an activity entitled, “Questions about Antarctica…It’s What’s for Dinner.” In this assignment, small groups were asked to develop a list of 10 questions about anything - weather, clothing, wildlife, geography, geology, oceanography - related to Antarctica. Each question was worth up to 10 points

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Antarctic
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High school and Up
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Investigations Beneath the Surface—Studying Underwater Life

Technology geared to the instruction and learning of science concepts, skills, and processes is instrumental to a deeper understanding of science phenomena and content.

Overview

This lesson is intended to introduce students to the concept of scientific exploration and investigation. Students will model the technology used in the Jellyfish in the Bering Sea expedition by using underwater cameras and tow

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Arctic
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High school and Up
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Remote Sensing in Polar Regions and Beyond

NASA’s Operation IceBridge uses remote sensing techniques to build a picture of parts of our world not accessible or easily observed by humans. Flying 1500 feet above sea and land ice, the science team uses LiDAR, Radar, Infrared imaging, and high resolution digital imagery to collect information about our polar regions year after year. In this classroom project, inspired and

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