Video created by PolarTREC teacher Kate Miller on her experience working with researcher Dr. Jim Madsen and other teachers with the Upward Bound Program in July 2017 in Rivers Falls, Wisconsin.
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
Arlington Public Schools' Green Scene production teams visits Kate's IB Physics class as students are learning about the fundamental particles of matter. This 5-minute video captures a clear connection between the required physics content and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory 2016 Expedition.
WJLA-TV (Channel 7) covers the ongoing rescue mission of two people from the South Pole. Reporters come to my classroom to interview Kate Miller about her upcoming expedition to the South Pole.
WJLA - TV (Channel 7) reports on Kate Miller's upcoming Antarctic expedition. Included is classroom footage, interviews with students, and a brief overview of IceCube.
Students will observe how soils and rocks of different densities behave in wind and in water. They will make predictions and careful observations as they learn about sediment transport and sediment rates in streams and rivers.
Students experiment with a “blubber glove” to experience how insulation affects heat transfer, and how the adaptation of blubber helps penguins as well as seals, whales and walruses survive in bitterly cold waters.
A young marine biologist from Portugal shows the science, the beauty and the importance of the polar regions to the planet from a research cruise en route to Antarctica. Film is primarily in Portuguese with some English.