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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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Lesson
Arctic Antarctic
About 1 period
High school and Up
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Arctic Connection - June Solstice Edition

Overview


Learn more about the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere through these multidisciplinary hands-on activities focusing on art, observation, outdoor engineering, movement, and adventure. Resources can be used in formal and informal learning environments.

Objectives


* Learners will understand the astronomical phenomenon of solstice.
* Learners identify the differences in how solstice impacts their local, sub-arctic

Resource Details
Informal Education Product
Arctic
n/a
All Aged
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21 June 2020 June Solstice

Sun through ferns
Journal Entry

As I write this, it is the June Solstice. The exact moment of solstice occurred a few hours ago, at 21:44 Universal Daylight Time. This was at 1:44 pm today here in Homer, Alaska. This moment marked when Earth’s north pole leaned most toward the sun, and the Earth’s south pole was tilted most away

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18 June 2020 Science Happens on Arctic Ocean In Spite of 2020 Pandemic

Map shows initial buoy deployments
Journal Entry

Buoys Deployed in Arctic Ocean A global pandemic could not stop the International Arctic Buoy Program from deploying drifting weather buoys into the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Utqiaġvik, Alaska during these past few months. With the collaborative

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PolarTREC 2019-2020 Cohort Wrap-Up Call

The Wrap-Up call for the 2019-2020 PolarTREC cohort of educators and researchers archive took place on 16 June 2020. Other participants included logistics contractors, partner teachers, program evaluators, and other participants of the research teams.

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31 May 2020 On Fragile, Speedy Ice

A ship moves through a patchwork of Arctic sea ice
Journal Entry

On Fragile, Speedy Ice## The expedition jacket I have from the MOSAiC Expedition reads “A Year In the Arctic Ice.” While this statement was never true for any individual expedition member, it did reflect the concept at the heart of the MOSAiC Expedition: that the R/V Polarstern would freeze into

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Cruise Report R/V Sikuliaq August 25-September 18, 2017

Cruise Report for the R/V Sikuliaq August 25-September 18, 2017, prepared by Dr. Carin Ashjian, Chief Scientist, and the SKQ201713S Science Team for the time PolarTREC teacher Lisa Seff was aboard and working on Upwelling and Ecology in the Beaufort Sea.

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Arctic
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From the Atlantic to the Arctic Ocean

Article written for the East Hampton Star Newspaper on September 7, 2017, featuring teacher Lisa Seff aboard the R/V Sikuliaq in the Beaufort Sea studying Upwelling and Ecology in the Bering Sea.

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Springs Teacher Heads to the Arctic

Article run in the East Hampton Star Newspaper on February 16, 2017, about teacher Lisa Seff's participation in the expedition "Upwelling and Ecology in the Bering Sea" aboard the R/V Sikuliaq in the Beaufort Sea.

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STEM Experience Report - Kate Steeper

Bringing the Science Back to my Classroom


It’s sometimes a common and depressing comment to hear from your students, “I’ll never use this in my life! Teach me something practical like how to pay my taxes!” As teachers, we strive to make learning relevant to student’s lives, but for a multitude of reasons sometimes your lessons just don’t have that

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