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Traditional Ways of Knowing: Air

Resource	Grade Level	Media Type
Alaska Native Pilots In 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	QuickTime Video
Alaska Native Ways of Knowing In 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 System Learn 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	QuickTime Video
Arctic Haze In 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	QuickTime Video
The Effects of Global Warming in Alaska In 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 Volcanoes In 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	Flash Interactive
Global Warming Threatens Shishmaref In this video segment adapted from Spanner Films, visit the Alaska Native village of Shishmaref, and learn how an entire town may be forced to relocate because of warmer temperatures, melting sea ice, and coastal erosion.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Hunters Navigate Warming Arctic In 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	QuickTime 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.	6-12	QuickTime 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	QuickTime Video
Sea Surface Temperature Explore 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	Flash Interactive
Soil Microbes and Global Warming In 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	QuickTime Video
Steve MacLean: Conservationist In 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	QuickTime Video
Students Measure Changes in Lake Ice and Snow In 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	QuickTime Video
An Unpredictable Environment In this video segment adapted from the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Inuit observers describe how their traditional understanding of weather patterns is being challenged by unpredictable weather behaviors.	6-12	QuickTime Video