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Bloom Detectives: Using the Imaging FlowCytobot to identify Harmful Algal Blooms

Overview

How do we know what kind of phytoplankton are in the water? The Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) is a robot that scientists use to image phytoplankton in the water. One IFCB can take up to 30,000 pictures per hour! The IFCB can be used in the field to detect plankton blooms in real time. In this activity, students will practice

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Arctic
About 1 period
Middle School and Up
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Berry Interesting Data

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This content has been created with the intent for the teacher to develop it to best suit their classroom setting. In its most basic form, students are asked to analyze wet and dry berry data to determine how water content changes (or doesn’t) for several berry species over the course of one season. This lesson has multiple stages or

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Arctic
Less than a week
Middle School and Up
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The Arctic Ocean Curriculum Unit

The Arctic Ocean Curriculum Unit was created by the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States with funding from the North Pacific Research Board. This project aimed to update and revise existing Arctic Ocean-related lesson plans originally created by PolarTREC program teacher alumni. The format used lends itself to the changes in education - providing student-facing slide decks that allow

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Arctic
n/a
Middle School and Up
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Staying Warm in the Extreme: Metabolism of Baby Seals

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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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Making Sense of Data Sets

Overview

Denise Hardoy created this resource after spending five weeks embedded with Dr. Anne Todgham’s team studying the effects of climate change on Antarctic fishes in 2019. This lesson addresses one of the most difficult aspects of science for students - making sense of data.

Objectives

Success Criteria * Given a graph, students will write an analysis paragraph of a

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Antarctic
Middle School and Up
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Homes Heating Up- A Hermit Crab Investigation

Overview

In this lesson, students will conduct an investigation to discover how the behavior of hermit crabs change as water temperature changes.

Goals

Students will understand and practice the steps of a science investigation through an investigation about hermit crabs’ reaction to changing ocean temperature. Students will understand that as ocean temperatures increase some animals will adapt and some will

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Antarctic
Less than a week
Elementary and Up
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The March of Nitrifiers - Good or Bad?

Objectives

Students will be able to: * Analyze graphical data to draw conclusions * Compare and contrast the chemical structures of nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide * Explain how differences in the structure of nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide lead to differences in their reactivity and functions as a greenhouse gas * Argue how changing shrubbery impacts climate change

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Arctic
Middle School and Up
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Investigating Permafrost Depth in the Arctic

Objectives

Students will be able to: * Graph, analyze, and predict data * Develop claim, evidence, and reasoning * Explain how permafrost is made, current conditions, and its impacts on climate and humans

Preparation

* This lesson plan can be taught either in the classroom or virtually online. Instructions on how to teach both ways are given in the Procedure

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Arctic
Middle School and Up
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How to Melt a Glacier

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This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to design and carry out an experiment that mimics the conditions causing accelerated ice melt along the face of the Thwaites Glacier off the southwest coast of Antarctica. Created by Sarah Slack during her expedition to Thwaites aboard the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer, this activity aligns with the Science and Engineering

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Antarctic
About 1 period
Elementary and Up
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