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Staying Warm in the Extreme: Metabolism of Baby Seals

Overview

This lesson investigates the correlation between the rate of cellular respiration and metabolic rate of Weddell seal pups. Students will collect data of their personal oxygen consumption rate at rest and during exercise, and evaluate how collecting oxygen data can be used to calculate metabolic rate. Students will comprehend that heat is a product of the reaction of cellular

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Antarctic
About 1 period
Middle School and Up
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What's Your Proof?

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Antarctic ecosystems are undergoing change at unprecedented levels. In this lesson, students will use real data to evaluate the effect of climate change on Antarctic fish. Denise Hardoy created this lesson plan after joining Dr. Anne Todgham’s team studying Antarctic Fish Development Under Future Ocean Conditions in October/November of 2019.

Objectives

  • Given data sets, graphs, videos, and
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Arctic Antarctic
About a week
Middle School and Up
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Jumping Into Warming Seas

Overview

This lesson introduces students to the impacts of increasing ocean temperatures on marine life. Through this kinesthetic activity, students will learn more about marine ectotherms and what researchers in Antarctica have learned so far about how increasing temperature in Antarctic waters will affect their growth. Through the elaborate section of the activity students will connect what they learned about

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Antarctic
Less than a week
Middle School and Up
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Growing Up on Ice

Overview

This is a STEM-based lesson that can be taught in class or online. Students will analyze Weddell seal pup growth data, collected by the Growing Up on Ice, B-030, research team. To use this lesson virtually, include the data cards and have students either construct graphs and upload an image of their graph, or construct a graph and share

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Antarctic
About 1 period
High school and Up
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A Day in the Field: Collecting Ice Cores

Overview

Students will engage in a virtual field experience on Huascarán Mountain in Peru, learning about how ice cores are collected and stored.

Lesson Preparation

Refer to Lesson Materials * Copies of Worksheets * Computers for students

Procedure

1. Read National Geographic Encyclopedia Entry Paleoclimatology and answer questions 2. Watch video Recovering Ice Cores (link in Resources). 3. Complete virtual

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Arctic Antarctic
About 1 period
High school and Up
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Fur vs. Blubber: Which is the Better Insulator for Marine Mammals?

Overview:

This lesson investigates the effects of different insulators (fur and blubber) on maintaining the body temperature of polar animals. Water balloons filled with warm water simulate the marine mammal. The blubber insulator will be simulated by covering the balloon in vegetable shortening. The fur insulator will be simulated by placing another balloon over the “marine mammal” and adding an

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Antarctic
About 1 period
Middle School and Up
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The Beauty of Ice, When Art Collides With Science

Overview

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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Creatures Under Foot: Soil Chemistry and Microscopic Animals

Overview

Students will collect soil samples and analyze them with some of the same procedures used by researchers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Soil microfauna (e.g. nematodes) will be extracted from the samples using a Baermann funnel. Students will compare their own data to published data from researchers working in Antarctica.

Objectives

  • Collect and analyze soil samples for
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Antarctic
About a week
High school and Up
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Navigating Around Antarctica!

Overview

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
About 1 period
Middle School and Up
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Going on a Bear Hunt: Identifying Tardigrades (Water Bears)

Overview

Students will collect tardigrades from lichen or moss cushions and then use a dichotomous key to identify the tardigrades by family.

Objectives

Collect, capture, and observe tardigrades found in local lichen or moss cushions. Use a dichotomous key to identify tardigrades by family.

Lesson Preparation

  • Print copies of the Key to Limno-Terrestrial Tardigrade Families and Tardigrade Identification Worksheet in
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Antarctic
Less than a week
Middle School and Up
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