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The Beauty of Ice, When Art Collides With Science

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Ice is a medium that nearly everyone is familiar with. We put it in drinks, skate on it for hockey and scrape it off our windshields in winter. Ice can be turned into sculptures and can even make for some fantastic winter scenery. Ice can also turn into a kaleidoscope of color and patterns under the right circumstances. Science

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Antarctic
About 1 period
Middle School and Up
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Sea Ice and Deep Sea Currents

This lesson is intended to help students make connections to polar science while discovering how and why sea ice drives deep ocean currents. Students will also learn key terminology related to sea ice and using actual salinity content charts, will graph a typical sea ice core’s salinity as it relates to depth.

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Antarctic
About 1 period
High school and Up
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Alumna Makes Trek to Antarctica

Concordia University WI E-Newsletter with article about teacher Jennifer Bault in Antarctica.

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Antarctic
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Bault Studies Ice Cores in Antarctica

Newspaper article from the Grant County Herald Independent about Jennifer Bault's expedition to Antarctica.

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STEM Experience Report - Jennifer Bault

The Experience of a Lifetime


A little over 1 year ago, I received a phone call that changed my life. I had been selected to become a PolarTREC Teacher and would be heading to Antarctica in the fall of 2017. Words cannot adequately describe the joy and excitement I had in that moment. I knew I was headed for

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PolarConnect Event: Jennifer Bault with the Seasonal Sea Ice Production in the Ross Sea Research Team

Teacher Jennifer Bault with researchers Hongjie Xie and Yongli Gao discuss the research looking at Seasonal Ice Production in the Ross Sea from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. A video associated with slide #21 can be seen here:

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Antarctic
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Former CHS teacher headed to Antarctica

News article written by senior, Brynn McCarthy at Cedarburg High School about PolarTREC teacher Jennifer Bault.

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Antarctic
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Navigating Around Antarctica!

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This lesson allows students to consider navigation around Antarctica, where longitudinal lines converge at South Pole. Through this study, students should learn about polar stereographic projection, satellites, navigation using various instruments, Antarctic geography, and NASA’s Operation IceBridge airborne mission. In the first part of this 55-80 minute lesson, students will be faced with a dilemma. Their task will be

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Antarctic
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Middle School and Up
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Exploring NASA’s Operation IceBridge Data Sets Through National Snow and Ice Data Center's Data Portal to Visualize Changes in Polar Ice

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NASA’s Operation IceBridge (OIB) flies airborne missions each year over both Polar Regions, collecting ice thickness and extent data on glaciers, ice caps, ice shelves and sea ice. This data is useful to many disciplines studying climate, weather, ocean circulation, sea level and many related fields. The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) houses and organizes the data

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Antarctic
Less than a week
Middle School and Up
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STEM Experience Report - Maggie Kane

The Revitalizing Power of Teacher-Researcher Collaboration

The nature of science is continually moving us forward; from a fresh set of findings we rush ahead excitedly to the next batch of questions. From this continual pursuit, new ideas, methods and instruments are designed by scientists and technicians at a rapid pace, in turn yielding new data. As science teachers, we need

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