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Bering Ecosystem Study Resources

Without Guano There's No Life

Type: Activity
Region:
Arctic
Antarctic
Completion Time: Less than 1 period
Grade Level: Elementary and Up
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview Students will sing a song about guano's role in the ecosystem and the movement of energy and matter through the food chain. Objective Students will learn how energy and matter move and...

Where Have All the Coral Gone?

Type: Activity
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: Less than 1 period
Grade Level: Elementary and Up
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview Students will sing a song about the effects of climate warming on changing ocean ecosystems. Objective To learn about ocean ecosystem health through song. Description Review the song ‘...

Bolus Dissection

Type: Activity
Region:
Arctic
Antarctic
Completion Time: Less than 1 period
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview Much like an owl pellet, a bolus is all the indigestible material that is "thrown up" by an albatross. Shaped like a fat cigar, one can dissect a bolus to assess the health of our ocean,...

The Ice Algae Grew All Around

Type: Activity
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: Less than 1 period
Grade Level: Elementary and Up
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview Students will sing a song to learn about ice algae and its role in the arctic ecosystem. Objective Students will learn about the Bering Sea arctic ecosystem, particularly the role of ice...

Echo Song

Type: Activity
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: Less than 1 period
Grade Level: Elementary and Up
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview Students will sing a song about the Bering Sea ocean ecosystem. Objective To sing a fun science-themed song! Preparation Teach students about the Bering Sea ecosystem or have them...

Sea Algae Bookmark

Type: Activity
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: Less than 1 period
Grade Level: Elementary and Up
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview Students will create a bookmark to help them remember that diatoms (ice algae) are the main producers in the Bering Sea ecosystem. Objective To create a tangible reminder of how the...

How To Make Puppets

Type: Activity
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: About 1 period
Grade Level: Elementary and Up
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview Students will make hand or stick puppets for use as props in songs, plays or other educational activities. Objective To make puppets! Preparation Prepare materials for students...

Make a Plankton Net

Type: Activity
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: Less than a week
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview Students will engage in a hands-on activity to build their own plankton nets and help them understand how scientists use the nets to study changes in the ocean ecosystem. Objective...

Marine Debris

Type: Activity
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: More than a week
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview Marine debris is primarily human-created trash found floating in the ocean. It can cause serious health problems for animals in a marine ecosystem. Students will gain first hand knowledge...

Jamestown woman selected for international initiative

Type: Article
Region: Arctic
Date: 12 April 2007
Grade Level: All Ages
Permission: n/a
Description: Online news article featuring Robyn Staup's (Sweet) expedition aboard the USCGC Healy.

BEST cruise on the Healy Icebreaker

Type: Event
Region: Arctic
Date: 3 May 2007
Description: BEST cruise on the Healy Icebreaker

BEST cruise on the Healy Icebreaker

Type: Event
Region: Arctic
Date: 10 May 2007
Description: BEST cruise on the Healy Icebreaker

BEST cruise on the Healy Icebreaker

Type: Event
Region: Arctic
Date: 26 April 2007
Description: Live call from the Healy.

BEST cruise on the Healy Icebreaker

Type: Event
Region: Arctic
Date: 17 April 2007
Description: Live event from the Healy Icebreaker.

Nature's Density Column

Type: Lesson
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: Less than a week
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview Nature creates its own density column in marine systems, which is extremely important for the triggering of the spring bloom of phytoplankton. Phytoplankton are an important food source for...

Down to the Deep Virtual Lab

Type: Lesson
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: Less than 1 period
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview Students are asked to predict what will happen to styrofoam objects lowered down to the bottom of the Bering Sea. Students make the appropriate calculations related to the actual experiment...

Talk Story: A Native Way of Knowing

Type: Lesson
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: Less than a week
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download and Share
Description: Overview This activity is meant to help students authentically learn the scientific method through comparing and contrasting oral history (storytelling) as a way to pass along information and solve...

Bering Sea Fabulous Food Chain Game

Type: Lesson
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: About 1 period
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download
Description: Overview Students will sort organisms found in the Bering Sea into food chains and gain an awareness of the flow of energy and nutrients in the Bering Sea Ecosystem. Objective Students learn about...

Goodbye My Island

Type: Lesson
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: About a week
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download and Share
Description: Overview Teacher leads class through collaborative lesson. Language Arts, Social Studies and Science Book "Good-Bye My Island". Chapters of the 16 chapter book are read, summarized and taught by...

Shrunken Spotted Seal Measurement Fun

Type: Lesson
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: More than a week
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download and Share
Description: Overview Students will use "Susea" the seal—a seal toy that grows in water—to discover the scientific process. This lesson was created by Maggie Prevenas who took part in the Bering Ecosystem Study...

Arctic Animals: How do they measure up?

Type: Lesson
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: About 1 period
Grade Level: Elementary and Up
Permission: Download and Share
Description: Overview This lesson is intended to have the students think about the animals of the Arctic and which ones they think are the largest. This will help with misconceptions of some animals being smaller...

The Algae in the Ice

Type: Activity
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: Less than 1 period
Grade Level: Elementary and Up
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview Students will sing a song and engage in an active game to learn more about ice algae and its role in the arctic ecosystem. Objective Students will learn about the arctic ecosystem,...

Ssssno Seals

Type: Lesson
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: More than a week
Grade Level: High school and Up
Permission: Download and Share
Description: Overview The title of this lesson, 'Ssssno Seals' is a play on words. Will the ice seals survive? Yes or No? Paul Lukosi is a high school teacher in the lower Yukon River Delta, 6 miles from the...

Chill Out- All About Ice in the Bering Sea

Type: Lesson
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: More than a week
Grade Level: All Ages
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview Through activities, video observation, experimentation and the construction of a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) students will learn about the chemical and physical properties of sea ice....

Recess at 25 Below

Type: Lesson
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: Less than 1 period
Grade Level: Elementary and Up
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview Students will engage in a hands-on activity to help them consider what students in a tropical climate do to prepare for recess compared with students who live in the interior of Alaska....