cactus man visits greenland summer 2001

Introduction and Overview , what is TEA? Introduction to Mrs Youngman and her projects. Where is Mrs Youngman going this year? Antarctica with the ITASE team. Mrs Youngman's 8th grade science syllabus Polar Science Lessons ready to use with students. More about ITASE including pictures from the last three seasons. More about Summit Greenland - the official summit web site - includes a virtual tour and live web cam!! The principle investigator Roger Bales and the University of Arizona hydrology and water resources department site. Background for Global warming - Greenland lesson Supplemental links pages- Greenland Melt and Climate Change ITASE photos from 2002

Introduction and Overview TEA - Teachers Experiencing the Antarctica and the Arctic Understanding the Polar regions is crtitical to the understanding of our planet. And yet, because of their remote locale and inhospitable climate, we are only beginning to have the opportunity to travel and work in these places as scientists. Even more rare is the opportunity for teachers to not only experience the world's more unusual regions , but also to experience and particapte in true field research. The TEA program brings together teams of teachers and scientists in these regions. This partnership captures the essence of science and of education and excites teachers to bring back the experience of travel and field research to the students in their classrooms.

new TEA's at the summer orientation in Hanover,New Hampshire July, 2000

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Greenland - the red dot is where the Summit camp is located on the polar ice cap International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition	Mrs. Youngman had the opportunity to travel to Greenland's ice cap in 2001 to study the climate and in 2003 she went to the South Pole! Timetable of events for her work... November 2002-January 2003 Travel with the ITASE team across Antarctica to the South Pole route map and details here Summer 2001- field experience in Greenland July 15- August 15th Daily journal entries from the summer on web here More pictures of the field station here summit pictures What is the purpose of this science research project at Summit and in Anarctica? Atmospheric Photochemistry -- How do the sun, snow and atmosphere interact ? I am continuing my work as a field assistant in a project analysing snow samples for the gases that are trapped and released back to atmosphere. This information will help the scientists to better understand how the snow and the atmosphere work together in the bigger climate picture. The Greenland ice cap is one of the places that scientists have cored for the ice records that are pointing to climate change and global warming. Antarctica ice cap is the other. there are many excellent links on this topic, here are a few to start Into the Arctic from the Arctic System Science center Secrets of the Ice from the Boston Museum of Science National Snow and Ice data center http://nsidc.colorado.edu Supplemental links pages- Greenland Melt and Climate Change .
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	Drilling Sites - Greenland and Antartica To view more information about the Greenland Ice Sheet Project (now called Summit) and climate change studies visit the web site: GISP 2 homepage Other related projects are taking place in Antartica so that scientists may correlate the data between the two polar extremes. One project, ITASE - is traversing the west antarctic ice sheet. To read more about htis project. Secrets from the Ice - Boston Museum of Science NOVA's program - "Warnings from the Ice" describes the work in Antartica
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Goals of the Teacher's Experiencing Antartica and the Arctic program

Goals to immerse teachers in the process of research science to increase the understanding of Polar regions to share with others the research experience to transfer the research experience to the classroom Benefits for teachers and students resources available allowing for interaction with the teachers while in the field Internet site with journal entries here weekly live broadcasts from the field camps of the researchers over the web resources available at anytime to teachers in the Phoenix area visits by Mrs. Youngman to your school / classroom extreme weather gear available for students to view scientific research tools available for demonstration live data transmission through the web slideshows from the Arctic and Antarctic available for your school / class lessons and demonstrations of Arctic Science for your class curriculum materials availble from PCDS library

Lessons and Activities to help students relate to the science at the poles.

There are many lessons and activities written for students at all levels, here are a few web sites with lessons ready to use with your classes.

Polar Science station - a site written by fellow TEA Susan Cowles

Antartica, the Arctic and Us. -- http://ll.terc.edu/arctic/content_students/session01/s01_page01.cfm

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Catching Clues - How do you study the Planet's health?
lessons written by Mrs Youngman intergrating physical science, oceanography and polar research.

Earth systems and the Energy balance.

• Climate, Weather and Biomes
  • climate and biome activity set - adapted from the GLOBE program earth systems poster activities (teacher notes)
  • arctic environmetal atlas - is there anything there but ice and snow?
  • the heating of land and water lab - convection, conduction and radiation
  • Polar Weather video questions
• Monitoring change
  • detectability and toxicity - understanding very small quanitities
• climate change web research questions
• Using ESI maps and MyWorld GIS to study Prince William Sound.
• Is the America's Arctic Environment at risk?
• Arizona Bear's Ozone study powerpoint

The Frozen Worlds

• What are snow and ice?
  • snow to ice - NIH Image lesson
  • the freezing and melting of water- exploring the physical properties of water
  • how do you study the snow? pictures and story from Summit
  • what is a glacier? from national snow and ice data center
  • what happens when a glacier grows ? working with NIH image
• What do these places look like? Introduction to Summit and Antarctica
  • comparing the regions from TERC - http://ll.terc.edu/arctic/content_students/session01/s01_page01.cfm
• What lives there? Links for Frozen Features and Fabulous Creatures Workshop

More TEA classroom activities (links to the TEA site)

Jason XIII - Frozen Worlds www.jason.org

1. geography and climate
   • global warming and the polar regions
2. history and culture
   • exploration and discovery
   • arctic tradition and change
   • the language of snow
3. frozen features
   • all about ice
   • landforms
   • ice melt
4. what lives there?
   • keeping warm with fur feathers and fat
   • monitoring changes in marine ecosystems
   • blubber contaminates activity
5. local field investigation
   • waters around the world and in our own backyard

"Snow activities" by the Teel Family from Alaska.

Arctic Alphabet - a web page for very young children, written by TEA Kathie Stevens

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Links to other sites of interest-

Polar links from TEA program

the sun shadows project - http://mrsmith.htmlplanet.com

Know snow - http://whyfiles.org/123snow/index.html

Links for Frozen Features and Fabulous Creatures Workshop

 

Mrs. Youngman's clothing and gear for her research trips were supplied by www.marmot.com	.
To learn more about other programs at Phoenix Country Day School http://www.pcds.org	view the NSF office of Polar Programs website
UV detecting devices for Mrs Youngman's trip were donated by Vernier Scientific http:// www.vernier.com

 

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