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Alaska Native PilotsIn this video adapted from Storyknife Productions, Alaska Native pilots share how they use traditional knowledge to read the landscape and predict the weather. |
3-12 |
Video |
Alaska Native Ways of KnowingIn this media-rich lesson, students prepare classroom science fair projects that demonstrate the application of traditional knowledge to a scientific topic. |
3-12 |
Lesson Plan |
Arctic Climate SystemLearn how the Arctic is a part of a global climate system in this video segment adapted from the National Film Board of Canada. |
6-12 |
Video |
Arctic HazeIn this video segment adapted from KUAC, find out why the horizon in Alaska is sometimes shrouded in pollution and what it means for climate change in the Arctic. |
6-12 |
Video |
The Effects of Global Warming in AlaskaIn this media-rich lesson, students learn how global warming is changing the Alaskan environment and examine the consequences of climate change on the region's human and wildlife inhabitants. |
6-12 |
Lesson Plan |
Explore Alaska's VolcanoesIn this interactive activity adapted from the University of Alaska, explore four of Alaska's many volcanoes using photographs, computer simulations, and three kinds of satellite images. |
6-12 |
Interactive |
Hunters Navigate Warming ArcticIn this video segment adapted from the National Film Board of Canada, learn how the Inuit people have used their traditional knowledge to understand and adapt to changes in their Arctic environment, particularly when hunting and navigating the landscape. |
6-12 |
Video |
Losing Permafrost in Alaska
In this video segment adapted from Spanner Films, learn how Alaska Native communities that rely on hunting and fishing are threatened by rising temperatures and melting permafrost.
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6-12 |
Video |
Samoa Under Threat In this video segment adapted from Bullfrog Films, a local climatologist talks about the Pacific island of Samoa, which is under threat from an increasing number of intense storms possibly related to global warming. |
6-12 |
Video |
Sea Surface TemperatureExplore the relationship between sea surface temperature (SST) and Earth's climate system, and consider the effects that changes in SST are having in the Arctic and beyond in this interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain featuring data and visualization from NOAA. |
9-12 |
Interactive |
Soil Microbes and Global WarmingIn this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, discover how warmer winters in Alaska may cause soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. |
6-12 |
Video |
Steve MacLean: ConservationistIn this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet conservationist Steve MacLean, an Iñupiaq from Barrow, Alaska, who works to preserve the health of the Bering Sea ecosystem. |
3-12 |
Video |
Students Measure Changes in Lake Ice and SnowIn this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, students provide field measurements that researchers need in order to understand how lakes in Alaska are changing as a result of climate change. |
6-12 |
Video |
