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Arctic Stories

As the homepage of the website describes, "The beauty of the Arctic, its precious and fragile nature, its critical role in maintaining a stable climate for the planet, and the rapid rate of change that is occurring there must all be conveyed to the general public. Here, through digital story telling, we put a human face on science, life, societies

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Arctic
n/a
All Aged
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Why Can’t I Eat this Fish?

Students will discover how a simple action such as turning on a television will lead to toxins in our food supply. Many of these toxins concentrate in the Arctic because of long-range transport of pollutants in the atmosphere. Scientists in the OASIS project (http://www.polartrec.com/ocean-atmosphere-sea-ice-and-snowpack-interactions) study these pollutants in the Arctic. Students will learn about actions that they can take to

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Arctic
Less than a week
Middle School and Up
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Kuril Biocomplexity Project

The Kuril Biocomplexity Project is a National Science Foundation-funded research project led by the University of Washington and being conducted by a team of American, Japanese and Russian scholars and students who are examining a 5000-year history of human-environmental interactions along the Kuril Island chain in the northwest Pacific Ocean. This is the link to the project website.

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Arctic
n/a
All Aged
n/a
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You are the Archaeologist

Overview

In this lesson, students learn about what archaeologists do and then practice implementing these skills with "real artifacts".

Objective

Students will: * be able to define an artifact and an archaeologist. * use evidence to support their decisions about the origin and use of an unknown item.

Preparation

Some of the objects that have worked well

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Arctic
About 1 period
Middle School and Up
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