NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program: The program provides a unique environment for learning and teaching by sending kindergarten through college-level teachers to sea aboard NOAA research and survey ships to work under the tutelage of scientists and crew.
National Science Foundation International Polar Year (ppt)
Web seminars from NSTA based on the NSTA Symposia on IPY (Ice, Water, and Life)
ANDRILL Research Immersion for Science Educators (ARISE) Program
Science teachers from the United States, Germany, Italy or New Zealand are invited to apply for the opportunity to join an international scientific drilling program in Antarctica as part of ANDRILL Research Immersion for Science Educators (ARISE) Program. The multi national ANDRILL project will investigate Antarctica's role in global environmental change over the past 65 million years. This year ANDRILL will use a drilling rig to penetrate the seafloor beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf and recover sedimentary records spanning the last five million years.
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Classroom Resources
U.S. Geological Survey: educational resources document
The Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey has developed a compendium of U.S.G.S. educational resources related to IPY. The 57-page document featuring materials ranging from satellite maps of Antarctica to photographs of Alaskan volcanoes-includes references to atlases, maps, CD-ROMS, databases and other resources. Entries in the listing are described in categories: Resource; Where Can I find It and What Can I do with It; What Does it look Like? It can be downloaded as a PDF file.
Teachers and Researchers - Exploring and Collaborating (TREC)
The TREC program is a partnership between the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) and VECO Polar Resources (VPR). Funded by the National Science Foundation, TREC allows K-12 teachers to participate in arctic research, working closely with scientists, with the goal of improving science education by broadening teachers' experiences.
Dive and Discover interactive
Antarctica: The Frozen Continent
An archived list of daily logs is available from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's interactive Dive and Discover Expedition 10, which was at sea from Feb. 21 to March 10, 2006. Using scuba diving and other sampling techniques, scientists studied salps-transparent jelly-like creatures that are important to the entire Antarctic food chain. As part of the National Science Foundation-funded expedition, scientists from several universities and institutions sailed aboard NSF's R/V Laurence M. Gould from the tip of South America to the waters around the Antarctic Peninsula to observe and sample salp populations.
Antarctica
In this Washington Post/KidsPost lesson plan, students learn about Antarctica and its early explorers as they prepare for a scientific expedition on the coldest continent. The lesson plan, originally published in February 2002, was designed to accompany the newspaper as a classroom tool. It is a downloadable PDF file.
Cool Science
The University of Washington's Polar Science Center has teamed up with Pacific Science Center to create a downloadable brochure called "Cool Science" that provides an introduction to Polar Regions and the research that scientists conduct there. The brochure was developed as part of a Polar Science weekend the science center hosted in March 2006.
Girls On Ice: A Free Glaciology Program For Teens
This ten-day field program is open to girls aged 15-19 who have shown keen interest in science and the outdoors and combines science education with leadership and mountaineering training. Erin Pettit, an NSF-funded researcher who spends six weeks a year studying the glaciers of Antarctica, teaches the course. The program is free to young women who qualify through a merit-based application process.
The Hidden Ocean Arctic 2005
In the summer of 2005, scientists participated in a collaborative effort to explore the frigid depths of the Canada Basin, located in the deepest part of the Arctic Ocean. The U.S. research was supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
IPY History
A brief history of International Polar Year, presented by the National Academy of Sciences, beginning with the first IPY, 1882-1883.
Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic (TEA)
Between 1992 and 2005, a number of K-12 educators were selected to accompany scientists on research expeditions to Antarctica and to the Arctic. This Web site features resources and materials collected for and about the TEA program.
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