Additional Resources

Educator Guide: Lab 1- Launching an Expedition

https://serc.carleton.edu/trex/labs/lab1_launch.html

Nicole Davi, Pat Pringle, Frank Wattenberg
Students are charged with thinking about what it takes to 'do science'. They are introduced to the science of dendrochronology and learn how tree-ring science is executed.

Subject: Biology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Ecosystems
Resource Type: Activities

It is a slippery slope

https://www.polartrec.com/resources/lesson/it-is-a-slipp...

Glenn Clark
This is a demonstration that includes a review of scientific abstracts that show how warm water currents speed up ice sheet loss and sub-ice water infiltration into the Southern Ocean.

Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Oceanography, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks
Resource Type: Activities

Global Snow Cover Changes

https://www.polartrec.com/resources/lesson/global-snow-c...

Missy Holzer
Students use an online mapping tool to investigate changes in global snow cover, develop a problem statement about global snow cover, and then use the tools to investigate a problem or question of ...

Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Water Quality and Quantity, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Resource Type: Activities

HEART Force Drought Game

https://cires.colorado.edu/outreach/resources/game/heart...

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
In this interactive game, students solve challenges that their community faces during the course of an extreme drought event by using available individual and community resources. Students work in ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Economics, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather
Resource Type: Activities

Translating Climate Change into Music

https://www.polartrec.com/resources/lesson/translating-c...

Angela Mazur
In this lesson, students collect outdoor observational data to create a song about climate change. Intermediate music students will not only earn a greater appreciation for Alaska, but also for ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Resource Type: Activities

Tiny Ice: Bits From Antarctica Video Series

https://www.polartrec.com/resources/informal-education-p...

Jocelyn Argueta
This video series highlights the travel, science, and life at the South Pole research station. In this 10-part series, topics are explained in 3-4 minute, digestible segments which include photos and ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Natural causes, Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Natural causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

Rising Tides: Protect Your Home from the Waves

https://ncse.ngo/rising-tides

Kate Carter
Warming oceans and melting landlocked ice caused by global climate change may result in rising sea levels. This rise in sea level combined with increased intensity and frequency of storms will ...

Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Sea Level Change
Resource Type: Activities

Pixels on Fire

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/pixels-on-fire/

California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory
In this activity, students use measurement and area skills to learn about remote detection of wildfires from space. After detecting mock wildfires with mobile devices, students then study ...

Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Resource Type: Activities

Mapping a Personal Story of Environmental Change

https://arcticandearthsigns.alaska.edu/learning-activiti...

Arctic and Earth SIGNs
This is a very simple but effective lesson that engages students with drawing a map of their local environment, then annotating their map with environmental changes they've observed. The ...

Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Climate feedbacks, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks
Resource Type: Activities

Fired Up Over Math: Studying Wildfires from Space

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/fired-up-ove...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Students learn how scientists assess wildfires using remote sensing, then use some of the same techniques to solve grade-level appropriate math problems.

Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Resource Type: Activities