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Antarctica Geologists Find a Balmy Day on the Lake-14 Million Years Ago
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Antarctica Geologists Find a Balmy Day on the Lake-14 Million Years Ago
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This article describes a discovery of moss and ostracod fossils that led to a better understanding of Antarctica's climate history.

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Geoscience
Life Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Reading
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Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Date Added:
03/01/2009
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Climate Science: What We Need to Know
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Climate Science: What We Need to Know
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This article presents the candid and informal response of a climate scientist who strives to communicate the essentials of climate change.

Subject:
Applied Science
Environmental Science
Geoscience
Physical Science
Technology
Material Type:
Reading
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Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Date Added:
10/17/2014
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Counting Graylings on the Tundra
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Counting Graylings on the Tundra
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This article profiles Linda Deegan, scientist with the Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research site in the Kuparuk River region of Alaska, as she counts and tags Arctic grayling as they migrate from streams to lakes in the fall.

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Applied Science
Environmental Science
Geoscience
Physical Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Date Added:
10/17/2014
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A Dinosaur Cast in Stone
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A Dinosaur Cast in Stone
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This article recounts the events on the day in 1990 when Dr. David Elliot, an Ohio State geologist, found a dinosaur fossil high in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica.

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Applied Science
Environmental Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Date Added:
10/17/2014
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Fruitful Collaboration: Western Science and Native Ways of Knowing
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Fruitful Collaboration: Western Science and Native Ways of Knowing
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This article presents some aspects of the societal and scientific challenges of sharing what is known about climate change by offering insights from Native Alaskans and Western scientists.

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Applied Science
Environmental Science
Geoscience
Physical Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Jessica Fries-Gaither
Date Added:
10/17/2014
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Going With the Floe: A One-Time Drifter
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Going With the Floe: A One-Time Drifter
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This article describes a researcher's history of studying sea ice and the dynamic nature of observed changes to the sea ice in the polar regions.

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Applied Science
Environmental Science
Geoscience
Physical Science
Space Science
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Reading
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Date Added:
10/17/2014
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Investigating West Antarctica, Then and Now
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Investigating West Antarctica, Then and Now
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This article profiles Charles Bentley, a geophysicist who has worked in Antarctica over a period of seven decades. The article provides an overview of his research as well as changes in the way scientists live and work in Antarctica.

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Applied Science
Environmental Science
Geoscience
Physical Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Date Added:
10/17/2014
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Learning About Antarctica's Past
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Learning About Antarctica's Past
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Learning about Antarctica's past can give K-Grade 5 teachers and students lessons in geology, climate, and ecology along with literacy experiences in sequencing and time lines. The author identifies online resources for both adults and younger learners. A three-section unit plan begins with sequencing events and follows with earth's history over billions of years and the records found in rocks and fossils. The article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears.

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Ecology
Forestry and Agriculture
Geology
Geoscience
Life Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
National Science Foundation
Date Added:
10/17/2011
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Magnetism, Mountains, and Moving Plates: Tales of a Polar Geologist
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Magnetism, Mountains, and Moving Plates: Tales of a Polar Geologist
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This article profiles Dr. Anne Grunow, curator of the United States Polar Rock Repository, and discusses her work as a polar geologist.

Subject:
Applied Science
Environmental Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Date Added:
10/17/2014
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Mt. Erebus, Then and Now
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Mt. Erebus, Then and Now
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This article describes the work of Hubert Staudigel and Cathy Constable, researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography who study Mt. Erebus, Antarctica's most active volcano.

Subject:
Applied Science
Environmental Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Date Added:
10/17/2014
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Poles Apart: A Tale of Two Oceans
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Poles Apart: A Tale of Two Oceans
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This article provides an overview of the geography, characteristics, and life of the Arctic and Southern Oceans.

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Applied Science
Environmental Science
Geoscience
Physical Science
Technology
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Jessica Fries-Gaither
Date Added:
10/17/2014
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Researchers on Ice
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Researchers on Ice
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Four Antarctica researchers describe how they keep warm while working in extreme cold, taking lessons from adaptations of wildlife.

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Applied Science
Environmental Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Date Added:
10/17/2014
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Serendipitous Science: An Unexpected Discovery
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Serendipitous Science: An Unexpected Discovery
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This article describes glaciologist Lonnie Thompson's discovery of an ancient plant in Peru. It also illustrates some important characteristics of good science that can be seen even in a serendipitous discovery.

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Applied Science
Environmental Science
Geoscience
Physical Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
Provider Set:
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Date Added:
10/17/2014
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Snow to Ice to Water: Melt Ponds, Moulins, and Surging Glaciers
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Snow to Ice to Water: Melt Ponds, Moulins, and Surging Glaciers
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This article describes the work of Dr. Jason Box, a researcher studying summer melt ponds on Greenland's ice sheets and the response of glaciers to try to explain the changes in climate that are being observed in the polar regions.

Subject:
Applied Science
Environmental Science
Geoscience
Physical Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
Provider Set:
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Date Added:
10/17/2014
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Studying the Aurora australis from Antarctica
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Studying the Aurora australis from Antarctica
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This article describes early studies of the auroras, including techniques used from 1960 when Henry Brecher first spent the winter at Byrd Station in Antarctica.

Subject:
Applied Science
Environmental Science
Physical Science
Space Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
Provider Set:
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Date Added:
10/17/2014
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Taking a Glacier's Pulse
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Taking a Glacier's Pulse
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This article profiles Dr. Leigh Stearns, a research scientist with the National Science Foundation's Science and Technology Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) and Assistant Professor in Geology at the University of Kansas who studies glaciers in Greenland.

Subject:
Applied Science
Environmental Science
Geoscience
Physical Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
Provider Set:
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Date Added:
10/17/2014
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Uncharted Territory on the Arctic Seafloor
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Uncharted Territory on the Arctic Seafloor
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This article profiles Dr. Leonid Polyak, a senior research scientist with the Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, who studies seafloor sediments from the Arctic Ocean to find clues about the climate conditions of the past.

Subject:
Applied Science
Environmental Science
Geoscience
Physical Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
Provider Set:
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Carol Landis
Date Added:
10/17/2014
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