Polar Climate Ambassadors: Tools for improving polar climate literacy in your students.

with Margie Turrin

20 January 2024

Climate is impacting the polar regions in measurable ways. We will share tools and resources developed by teachers and students in our summer research programs to explore the changing poles, looking at local connections. The resources we explore are designed to improve polar, climate and data literacy.

Links for today’s program

Polar Climate Ambassador  polar education resources for the program including things the students created like their videos!

A few direct video links that I noted in the presentation:

Janice’s Story of Arctic Sea Ice

Allie discusses A look at Arctic Communities

Scientists Advice on what we can do to fight climate change

The storymap that Alejandro Mundo, NYC HS teacher created called Polar Perspectives that has 4 parts with activities and student worksheets and explorations embedded. Section 4 has some GPS worksheets etc. 

The storymap that Doria Hillsman, Spring Valley High School teacher created for Polar Climate:

An Introduction to Climate Change

Modern Day Climate Change & the Poles (including a look at the people living at the poles)

Paleochemistry/Proxies: Unlocking the climate of the distant past through chemistry (including a video on proxies and the role of uncertainty in climate)

Q’s Greenland video 

Application for 2024 Polar Climate Ambassador Program

Selected E2C programs:

Eyes in the Sky: Using Tools to Explore the Changes of the Polar Regions with Margie Turrin and Laurel Zaima

“Discover the Polar Explorer: Sea Level Rise App” with Margie Turrin & Dave Porter

Greenland Rising with Margie Turrin 

“Polar Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise” with Indrani Das

Understanding the past and future of the Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica with Frank Nitsche

“The Ocean and Atmospheric CO2” with Jerry McManus