Life Science Collection

Overview

Students will explain, both orally and in writing, a diagram used to illustrate a food web.

Objectives

• Students will learn how language is used to communicate and is required to impart knowledge and sustain a healthy, traditional community in a modern world.
• Students will learn strategies for communicating complex ideas to an audience.
• Students

Overview

Students discover how different organisms that live in the Arctic depend on each other and what might happen to the food web if one or more organisms disappears from it. Students will build an arctic food web.

Objectives

Students will learn that organisms are part of a global food web and linked to each other and their

Overview

This First Grade unit on the bowhead whale has been created to support the knowledge of children living within a whaling community. The unit focuses on the basic components of understanding the bowhead in a more scientific manner. Although my students know the bowhead in a uniquely intimate way because of their environmental and subsistence circumstances, our goal

Overview

Elizabeth Eubanks M.Ed (working with Angela Gilmour, Anne Jensen, Danielle Dickson, Leslie Pierce, and Rachel Potter) connected with PolarTREC and NOAA TAS. This lesson is inspired by the need to share the importance of the Bowhead Whale in relation to the culture of arctic people. It is a portion of an entire collaborative unit to be utilized between

Meet Michael Sheriff, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Learn more about Michael's work with Arctic Ground Squirrels at www.polartrec.com. Video by PolarTREC teacher Nick LaFave.

Overview

This engaging topic and active game is inspired by a long-term scientific study of Black Guillemots nesting on an island near Barrow, AK. It introduces the life cycle of the Black Guillemot, how it raises its young, and the adaptations it is making to adjust to life in a changing Arctic.

Objectives

By the end of this

Meet PolarTREC teacher Nick LaFave

In this one hour webinar, PolarTREC teacher Nick LaFave conducts live event for students and the public on his work at Toolik Field Station studying Predatory Spiders with researcher Amanda Koltz.

In this one hour webinar, PolarTREC teacher Nick LaFave conducts professional development for teachers on his work at Toolik Field Station studying Predatory Spiders with researcher Amanda Koltz.

Meet PhD student Amanda Koltz and learn about what motivated her to study science and research spiders in arctic food webs. Her fun fact might surprise you!

Meet research assistant Kiki Contreras who spent the summer of 2012 working on the Predatory Spiders in Arctic Food Webs project at Toolik Lake, Alaska. Video by PolarTREC teacher Nick LaFave.

Meet Toolik Field Station Naturalist Seth Beaudreault. Video by PolarTREC teacher Nick LaFave.

Display at Macon County Library while my expedition is ongoing. Also includes a few hundred bookmarks with expedition address on it

The CIMSS/UW-Madison Global and Regional Climate Change course for G6-12 science teachers has been translated to Spanish and is now available online. The translation was done by Juan Botella, a native Spanish speaker who teaches high school science in Madison, WI and a former PolarTREC teacher. Read more about Juan here: http://www.polartrec.com/member/juan-botella

Arctic Research Mapping Application. ARMAP is a suite of online, interactive maps and services that support Arctic science. Learn more about research projects in your region of interest or scientific discipline. Explore available data or possible collaborations. Use the online mapping tools to meet your own project's specific goals.

Summit Station, Greenland Website. The station is located atop 3200 m of ice and is nearly 400 km from the nearest point of land. Summit supports a diversity of scientific research, including year-round measurements of air-snow interactions that provide crucial knowledge for interpreting data from deep ice cores drilled both at Summit and elsewhere.

Winthrop University announces Nick LaFave's PolarTREC expedition to study predatory spiders at Toolik Field Station in Alaska.

This article describes PolarTREC teacher Nick LaFave's upcoming expedition to Toolik Lake, Alaska where he will be studying wolf spider populations with Duke University researcher, Amanda Koltz.

Dayton's News Program, Fox 45 in the Morning, talks with teacher Chantelle Rose directly from the Arctic about her oceanographic PolarTREC expedition and follow-up involvement with the 2012 Arctic Ocean Ecosystem Workshop in Barrow, Alaska.

Environmental Science teacher Nick LaFave will put his hands-on teaching and researching skills into service while participating in a study of wolf spiders and their impact on the arctic environment. Read more about his upcoming PolarTREC expedition in this article from his community newspaper.

Interview with PolarTREC teacher Alex Eilers and Dr. Jennifer Burns' expedition studying Weddell seals in the Ross Sea.

Article about PolarTREC teacher Alex Eilers’ expedition to study Weddell seals in the Ross Sea.

Article about PolarTREC teacher Alex Eilers’ expedition to study Weddell seals in the Ross Sea.

Article about PolarTREC teacher Alex Eilers’ expedition to study Weddell seals in the Ross Sea.

Article about PolarTREC teacher Alex Eilers’ expedition to study Weddell seals in the Ross Sea.