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Connecting Boreal Larch Forests to Coniferous Forests of the Rocky Mountain Region

Overview

Scientists in Siberia are seeing trends of more severe and widespread wildfires. By observing and measuring larch forests, they are trying to understand how the forests are changing. What do these trees need to survive? Are they getting what they need? Students will plant lodgepole pine seeds providing some with all the necessary components for survival and others missing

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Arctic
More than a week
Elementary and Up
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Seed Dispersal STEM Challenge

Overview

Scientists in Siberia are seeing trends of more severe and widespread wildfires. Larch seeds are dispersed by wind. Experimentation is currently underway to determine distances larch seeds can disperse from viable, mature larch trees. Students will explore how various types of seeds are dispersed to get what they need to survive.

Timeframe: 90 minutes
Grade: K-2

Objectives

Students will

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Arctic
About 1 period
Elementary and Up
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Meaningful Meteorology

Overview

Students will learn to:

* Observe and record weather patterns
* Process data by creating graphs/charts
* Compare actual weather data from the Siberian Arctic to local weather patterns, draw conclusions and make future predictions concerning weather patterns.

Big Idea

Why do people need to track weather over time?

Lesson Preparation

You will need a thermometer, tracking calendar, and

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Lesson
Arctic
More than a week
Elementary and Up
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STEM Experience Report - Amanda Ruland

The Importance of Teacher/Researcher Collaboration


Collaboration such as this offers a window into the science rarely seen by teachers and their students. It allows the public/students to experience, in real-time, relevant data collection of the 21st century. Furthermore, experiences such as these demonstrate the universal factors of the scientific process. It does not matter if we are practicing science in

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Report
Arctic
n/a
All Aged
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Recess at 25 Below

Overview

Students will engage in a hands-on activity to help them consider what students in a tropical climate do to prepare for recess compared with students who live in the interior of Alaska.

Objectives

Students will:

* Compare what students in a tropical climate do to prepare for recess with students who live in the interior of Alaska.
* Learn

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Arctic
Less than 1 period
Elementary and Up
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Chill Out – All About Ice in the Bering Sea

Through activities, video observation, experimentation and the construction of a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) students will learn about the chemical and physical properties of sea ice.

Objectives


Students will be able to answer main questions of where sea ice is, how it is formed, why the ice is important, how it is classified by indigenous people and scientists, how

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Arctic
More than a week
All Aged
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Ssssno Seals

The title of this lesson, 'Ssssno Seals' is a play on words. Will the ice seals survive? Yes or No? Paul Lukosi is a high school teacher in the lower Yukon River Delta, 6 miles from the Bering Sea...as the slough goes. The village he teaches in is heavily focused on family and culture, and has survived for thousands of

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Arctic
More than a week
High school and Up
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Without Guano There's No Life

Overview


Students will sing a song about guano's role in the ecosystem and the movement of energy and matter through the food chain.

Objective


Students will learn how energy and matter move and change in an ecosystem and how living things and matter interact.

Description


Lead the students in singing the song 'Without Guano There's No Life'

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Arctic
Less than 1 period
Elementary and Up
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Where Have All the Coral Gone?

Overview

Students will sing a song about the effects of climate warming on changing ocean ecosystems.

Objective

To learn about ocean ecosystem health through song.

Description

Review the song ‘Where Have All the Coral Gone’ (attached), sung to the tune of ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone’.

Credits

Maggie Prevenas, prevenas [at] hawaiiantel.net

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Arctic
Less than 1 period
Elementary and Up
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The Ice Algae Grew All Around

Overview


Students will sing a song to learn about ice algae and its role in the arctic ecosystem.

Objective


Students will learn about the Bering Sea arctic ecosystem, particularly the role of ice algae, plankton, krill, fish, birds and mammals through song.

Description


Review the song 'The Ice Algae Grew All Around' (attached), sung to the tune

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Arctic
Less than 1 period
Elementary and Up
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