News article on teacher Liza Backman and her experiences preparing for a trip to the Arctic to work on the phenology of arctic plants in a warming climate.
Wait. You wake up... when? I find it fascinating how quickly routines can be built as well as how quickly routines can be broken. I’m sure most educators would agree with me as summer breaks begin around the country and many of us are discarding the school year daily routine in favor of autonomous
Walking In Circles It’s been four days of quarantine and I’m starting to wig out just a little bit. It’s funny how cabin fever comes and goes (even over the course of a single day)--I can be itching to JUST DO SOMETHING one minute and then thirty minutes later be very comfortable doing nothing but
Welcome to Fairbanks! After a 16 hour drive to Alabama, a 1.5 hour drive to Atlanta, a 5.5 hour flight to Seattle, and a 3.5 hour flight to Fairbanks, I finally arrived in Alaska Monday afternoon to begin my 14 day quarantine period. Both flights were wonderfully smooth (at least during the times
It's happening... Tomorrow! Tomorrow is the big day which means today I am finalizing all of my packing. It’s a little late in the game, I know, but packing for Alaska has been really complicated--and not for the reasons you may think! The biggest thing that stood in the way of my packing is my
The BIG News After a year of waiting and wondering (and waiting and waiting), I finally got the news that my trip is going to happen this year… I’m headed to Alaska! I am beyond grateful to be able to work with my team of science researchers, Dr. Steve Oberbauer and Dr. Jeremy May, to learn more
AFTER ICE is a short film that explores how the glacial landscapes of the Hornafjörður region of Southeast Iceland are being affected by climate change. The film features images from the 1940s and 1980s that were painstakingly reconstructed in 3D and overlaid with current-day drone footage to show how greenhouse gas emissions are causing glaciers on the south coast of Iceland to
The Polar Resource Book (PRB) - Polar Science and Global Climate: An International Resource for Education and Outreach, was created in 2010. Its purpose was to ensure efforts catalyzed by the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 will continue to inspire educators, students, and emerging polar researchers into the next generation with a shared commitment to outreach and education.
The book
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.
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.
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* Given a graph, students will write an analysis paragraph of a
