Looking for activities you might use in the classroom for the IPY launch? Check out the "Ice in the Solar System" Exploring Ice in the Solar System, a NASA-funded educational CD authored by Dr. Richard Shope from JPL and produced by Dr. Julie Edmonds at the Carnegie Academy for Science Education for the Carnegie Institutions of Washington MESSENGER and Astrobiology projects, was rated "outstanding" in a NASA space science education product review. Twelve conceptual change lessons spring out from the activated curiosity inspired by the central Ice Experience lesson, moving from exploring ice in everyday life, to ice at the Polar Regi...

Young artists around the USA competed this year in a polar art contest: Polar Exploration: Going to Extremes! In celebration of the International Polar Year, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) this year challenged young artists explore the Earth's polar regions. Over 1,400 seven to ten year olds submitted pieces to the 2006 contest. For more information, and to see the winners, check out the IGES competition website. If you would like to use this contest as a class or group activity, IGES collected a comprehensive set of resources...