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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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How Does Weather in Antarctica Impact Me?

Overview

Most students, regardless of their grade level, live β€œin 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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Global Decomposition Project

Background

Soil decomposers, such as some bacteria and fungi, obtain energy needed for life from dead and decomposing plant and animal remains, known as soil organic matter. Soil organic matter is important to local ecosystems because it affects soil structure, regulates soil moisture and temperature, and provides energy and nutrients to soil organisms. It is also important globally, because

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

Overview

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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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
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Grade

  • High school and Up (8)
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  • (-) Elementary and Up (2)

Related Members

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Expeditions

  • Antarctic Automatic Weather Stations (1)
  • Bering Ecosystem Study (1)
  • Carbon Balance in Warming and Drying Tundra (1)
  • Carbon Balance in Warming and Drying Tundra 2012 (1)
  • Fire and Carbon in Siberian Forests (1)

Completion Time

  • Less than a week (9)
  • About 1 period (8)
  • Less than 1 period (6)
  • n/a (1)
  • (-) More than a week (5)

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  • Life Science (3)
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    • Water Cycle, Weather, and Climate (3)
    • Atmospheric Science (1)
    • Climate Change (1)
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    • Snow and Ice Science (1)
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    • Subsistence (2)
    • Climate Change (1)

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