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Monday, 26 November 2007 23:12
Ice Sheets: Activities and Events for Educators
Written by Rhian Salmon
Learn about Ice Sheets by doing an experiment, following an expedition, contacting a scientist, or designing your own community event.
Launch a virtual balloon to show your involvement, and watch as people around the world join in!
Take part in the live web conferencing connection with the Antarctic.
Quick Ways that Teachers and Students can learn more about Ice Sheets, and get involved during the week of December 13th!
1. Learn About Ice Sheets and IPY:
by reading this ...
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Launch a virtual balloon to show your participation in this International Polar Day: Ice Sheets.
Follow these simple steps:
1. Sign in to Tagzania
2. Select "Post" (top right), then "Point"
3. Find your location by clicking 'Go directly to the map'
4. Add the tag ipy2007icesheet
5. Fill in your other details: name, description, photos, links....
6. See your balloon appear on the Ice Sheet Virtual Balloon Launch Map.
Click on the balloons to see the pop-up text and pictures. Here is a preview:
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The International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 officially started on March 1 2007. Below you will find information on the many international and national launch events, as written before the events. Also, please visit the Educators Icy IPY Activities Page to learn how teachers, students, and local communities got involved around the world. For more details about specific events, please consult this list of press officers (PDF) or see contacts below. We have also made these ...
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Ship Cruises
Antarctic Sea Ice in IPY (ASPECT) (IPY Project 141)
ASPeCT has a number of associated expeditions investigating Sea Ice. These include:
SIPEX: Sea Ice Physics and Eco-system eXperiment
SIPEX website
SIPEX Press Release
This Australian led expedition to the Southern Ocean will be conducting a range of exciting experiments in the sea ice ...
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December 13th, 2007 marks the second of the quarterly International Polar Days, this time focusing on Ice Sheets.
About Ice Sheets Although the Earth has many locations with permanent ice and glaciers, there are only two ice masses that are large enough to be classified as ice sheets: the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Antarctic Ice Sheet. These ice sheets are composed of snow that has fallen, become buried due to additional snowfall over ...
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Note: this is a draft webpage. if you would like to add, recommend, or edit any of the content, please email Rhian Salmon (
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) December 13th, 2007 marks the second of quarterly International Polar Days.... this time focusing on Ice Sheets. image About Ice Sheets -- short ice sheet summary text -- Download this flyer about XXX or read it on this XXX webpage. image For Press (press releases, contacts, images, projects) For Educators (experiments, resources, live cruises, po...
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One of the best ways to learn about a subject is to share it with others. Teachers ask us for material they can use in the classroom, artists request background information to accompany exhibitions, recent visitors to the polar regions want to know more about the research happening in these areas. In addition, IPY participants themselves need overview materials that provide the context into which they can expand on their own project, and students learning about the polar regions seek high-quality, accessible, and reliable resources and information. In short, there is a huge and international thirst for knowledge from a variety of people across the social spectrum. To meet this demand we have created the IPY Polar Ambassador programme.
The following schematics illustrate the ...
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Scientists all over the world are working to understand the changes that have been happening in the polar regions since the first International Polar Year was initiated 125 years ago.
As citizens of the Earth, whether we live in the polar or the non-polar regions, it is our responsibility to understand the science behind these changes.
These pages suggest ways you can learn about the polar regions, Launch a Virtual Balloon, and observe the balloons grow on the IPY Global Community map. You'll see your balloons there, too!...
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Launch a virtual balloon to show your participation in Sea Ice Day.
Follow these simple steps:
1. Sign in to Tagzania
2. Select "Post" (top right), then "Point"
3. Find your location
4. Add the tag ipy2007seaice
5. Fill in your other details: name, description, photos, links....
6. See your balloon appear on the Sea Ice Virtual Balloon Launch Map.
Click on the balloons to see the pop-up text and pictures. Here is a preview:
...
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