This Live from IPY! Event was held with PolarTREC Teacher Michele Cross and the SCINI ROV team and Dr. Stacy Kim. They discussed the SCINI ROV and their work in Antarctica.
Article about Michele Cross's upcoming PolarTREC Expedition with Stacy Kim and the SCINI ROV team in Antarctica. Ms. Kingsley encourages others to follow the expedition online and through the newspaper, as she hopes to post updates throughout the expedition.
News article from the Pennysaver about PolarTREC teacher, Michele Cross's upcoming trip to Antarctica. Visit the article online or download it to the right.
The journal assignment involves students in current science research. Through the teacher’s journals, they will learn about how the research teams work together, design their research, tools that are needed and how they live and work in an extreme environment.
Objective
Students will be able to:
1. Understand how scientific research is conducted in an extreme environment
Working in groups, students will use common materials to create layers of snow and ice representing thousands of years of stratification. Groups will exchange their ice layers and extract core samples to analyze them.
Objective
Notice the phenomenon of stratification.
Notice that layers can tell a story of change over time.
Live from IPY! event with teacher Jo Dodds and the research team in Summit, Greenland. The focus of the event was about the various snow studies being conducted at Summit. Note about the archive: The WIMBA archive has some audio. We had technical difficulties mid-way through and the audio got disconnected.