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Kuril Islands Biocomplexity Resources

Salt Content and Freezing Water Activity

Type: Activity
Region:
Arctic
Antarctic
Completion Time: Less than a week
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview This activity was adapted from a TEA activity authored by: Sandra Kolb, Education Consultant, Poulsbo, Washington Kolene Krysl, Westside Community Schools, Omaha, Nebraska Larry Rose,...

PolarTREC Reflection Journals

Type: Activity
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: More than a week
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download, Share, and Remix
Description: Overview Students will independently explore the PolarTREC expeditions, and reflect on the scientific questions, discoveries, and outcomes of the work that is or has been done. Description Students...

Bicomplexity in the Kuril Islands, Russia

Type: Event
Region: Arctic
Date: 30 July 2007
Description: Live event with Misty Nikula and 3 live participants

Geologists in Training

Type: Lesson
Region:
Arctic
Antarctic
Completion Time: About 1 period
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download and Share
Description: Overview The study of rock and sediment layers, or stratigraphy, can be used to introduce students to the fundamental principles of geology and to lead into the idea of geologic time. In this lesson...

You are the Archaeologist

Type: Lesson
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: About 1 period
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download and Share
Description: Overview In this lesson, students learn about what archaeologists do and then practice implementing these skills with "real artifacts". Objective Students will: be able to define an artifact and an...

Mini-Ocean Bathymetric Mapping Research Cruise

Type: Lesson
Region:
Arctic
Antarctic
Completion Time: Less than a week
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download and Share
Description: Overview This activity is designed to take place near or at the end of a unit on the ocean floor. Students should be familiar with the physical features of the ocean floor including the continental...

Playground Profiling: Topographic Profile Mapping

Type: Lesson
Region:
Arctic
Antarctic
Completion Time: Less than a week
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download and Share
Description: Overview This lesson was modeled after some of the routine activities undertaken by the geologists on the Kuril Island Expedition. Complete the following activities: Day 1 To measure a simple...

Permafrost Thaw Depth and Ground Cover

Type: Lesson
Region: Arctic
Completion Time: Less than a week
Grade Level: Middle School and Up
Permission: Download and Share
Description: Overview Students are presented with an actual series of tundra photos, which they use to develop a hypothesis for which sort of ground cover will have the most/least permafrost depth. Then they...