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Inspiring the next generation of polar scientists: Classroom extensions from teachers with research experiences

Article in Polar Record written by ARCUS staff and PolarTREC alumni educators that shares impacts of participating in a Teacher Research Experience. Abstract: PolarTREC-Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating (PolarTREC) has provided the opportunity for over 160 K-12 teachers and informal science educators from the USA to work directly with scientists in the Arctic and the Antarctic. As a Teacher

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Arctic Antarctic
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Going global, teaching local: Rodel Finalist Jillian Worssam links her students to scientists worldwide

PolarTREC teacher Jillian Worssam was one of a handful of teachers singled out by the Rodel Foundation of Arizona as an exemplary teacher. This article gives a sneak peak into Ms. Worssam's very hands-on, field-based classroom and how she connects with her middle school students.

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Arctic
Middle School and Up
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Arctic SEAsons

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This lesson was written for the 2012 Arctic Ocean Ecosystem Workshop and was inspired by the research work conducted off the coast of Barrow, Alaska by researchers Steve Okonnen and Patricia Yager with PolarTREC teachers Lollie Garay and Chantelle Rose. Students will engage in a series of exercises to investigate seasonal change in the Arctic ecosystem based on authentic

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Arctic
About a week
Middle School and Up
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Water is Life

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This lesson introduces students to krill, their importance in ocean ecosystems, and the physical structures that make up the krill body. The students will then use the principles of a "floater" species and design their own krill, hopefully having a class competition to see who can build a better krill.

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Students will understand the importance of krill in

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Arctic
Less than a week
Elementary and Up
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Rings of Life

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

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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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Welcome to the Bering Sea: An Introductory PowerPoint

Overview

The following PowerPoint presentation is part of an anticipatory set used to excite and introduce students to the many wonders of the Bering Sea. The PowerPoint is to be presented at the beginning of a unit about the Bering Sea.

Objectives

At the start of a unit on the Bering Sea this PowerPoint video presentation will engage

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Arctic
Less than 1 period
All Aged
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Polar Profiles

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Students will develop an understanding of what it takes to interview scientists, and take the corresponding data and reformat it into an electronic medium.

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Students will be able to write questions to scientists in the field, interview, take the data collected, and convert to an electronic format including MP3 clips and post to the Internet.

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Arctic
About a week
Middle School and Up
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Notes on an Adventure

Arizona Daily Sun article about Jillian Worssam's PolarTREC experience on the USCGC Healy in the Bering Sea. Article created from journal excerpts, and was published on 3 August 2008.

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Arctic
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Polar Focus Fascinated Project New Start

Article about PolarTREC teacher Jillian Worssam and her classroom project, Project New Start. This is an article from the Arizona Daily Sun.

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Arctic
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Coast Guard Cutter Healy to Deploy

Story from online website, military.com about the USCGC Healy deploying to the Arctic. During the deployment, Healy will travel more than 25,000 miles and conduct more than 2,000 individual science evolutions in the course of completing seven separate science missions. Healy will spend six weeks between the second and third missions in Seattle conducting scheduled maintenance and training. Healy's two

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