Arctic Climate Connections
This project was designed as the Broader Impacts portion of the NSF proposal “Surface Energy Budgets at Arctic Terrestrial Sites: Quantifying Energy and Momentum Fluxes and their Associated Physical Processes”, studying analysis of existing data from Arctic terrestrial stations with multi-year measurements of the surface energy budget, clouds, soil temperature profiles, and basic meteorological measurements.
Context for Use
This is a three-part curriculum about Arctic climate; the activities may be used independently or in sequence.
Resource Type
Unit
Topics
High School
Instructional Time
400 minutes (3 lessons)
NGSS Disciplinary Core Idea(s)
Published Date
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What Students Will Do
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What Students Will Do
- Students become familiar with the Arctic region through a virtual exploration of the geography.
- Introduced to meteorological parameters that Arctic research teams use
- Jigsaw activity to read and interpret graphs while considering the optimal time to plan a research mission to the Arctic
- Use authentic Arctic climate data to explore albedo and its relationship to seasonal snowmelt as a self-reinforcing feedback mechanism, which is then applied to large scale global climate change.
