Immersion Presents in New York State

EXPLORE THE WORLD'S OCEANS. 
EXCITE KIDS WITH SCIENCE.
IGNITE KIDS CURIOSITY ABOUT CAREERS.

Marine Mammals of the Arctic (09-10)

Here are wonderful resources
 to support your study
 of the Arctic:

• Explore Creatures: Great site for doing research on animals of the arctic: http://na.oceana.org/en/explore/creatures
  • Also see Photo Gallery from Paul Nicklen:
    http://www.pixcetera.com/pixcetera/paul-nicklen-polar-obsession/72493
     
• Education World's Great sites for teaching about Alaska: http://www.educationworld.com/a_sites/sites071.shtml
• Going Green (aligns with Activity #8)
  • Carbon Rally: http://www.carbonrally.com/
  • These Come from Trees:
    http://thesecomefromtrees.blogspot.com/
  • These come from trees stickers (use labels 2' X 4" Avery #5163)
     

• Winter survival

  • Arctic survival website has lots of good links
    http://www.ssrsi.org/ods/arctic.htm

  • Simple survival in the arctic
    http://www.simplesurvival.net/arctic.htm

  • How to make a Bowdrill

  • Army arctic survival manual from WW II
    http://www.arcticwebsite.com/USAAFsurvival.html

  • Another version of the survival game
    http://www.patsperspective-online.com/SUBARCTIC%20SURVIVAL.pdf

  • Winter camping & hypothermia
    http://www.scoutscan.com/resources/wintcamp.html
     

• Great website with interactive games and information about the arctic:
  http://nature.ca/ukaliq/index_e.cfm
   

• A collection of websites on the Arctic.

  • Wild Arctic Fun Guide- games, puzzles and fun things to do sponsored by Seaworld:

  • Website devoted to the Arctic Hare by the Canadian Museum of Nature - games, activities and videos about the hare.  Also has lesson plans with activity sheets for educators.

  • Website of Kansas University PRISM group (Polar Radar and Ice Sheet Measurement).  Group is developing radar and robotic rovers to measure the ice thickness.  This site is an outreach to educators using the data they have gathered to create lesson plans about the Arctic and Antarctic. 

  • Arctic food web (Note: "arrow heads" need to be reversed if you are going to use it to show the direction of energy flow correctly.)

  • Collection of lesson plans with activities about the Arctic for a range of student levels.

  • The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has educational projects for use by teachers: Stained glass arctic animal activity if from here.

  • Sunrise and sunset times for any place on the earth throughout the year  Does bring home the idea of the the land of the midnight sun..

• Just for Fun!

  • Make-a-Flake: this interactive site allows you to design and cut out a paper snowflake!

  • Origami with an Arctic flare! Two great websites on making polar origami. 

    • Polar Bear

    • Origami with an Arctic flare! pick from multiple animals on this link - video "how-to" included!

• Narwhals:
  • On the NOAA website, this link is for "Tracking Narwhals in Greenland" and from there you can link to information about this and also to videos of Kristin Laidre as she speaks about the research and shows how the narwhals are tagged, a slideshow of narwhal tracking, Innuit education slideshow, etc.
  • National Geographic kids website has a nice, brief video of narwhals
• Polar Bears:
  •   Polar Bear mother with cub in den - great video (site also has lots of other great polar bear videos and info)

  • Video of Polar Bear mother emerging from den with cubs 

  • Polar bear denning & habitat map

  •  Detecting denning polar bears with Forward Looking Infra-Red Imagery (FLIR) 

  • Polar Bear International website
    http://www.polarbearsinternational.org

  • Sled Dogs and Polar Bears
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-Nyt4Bmi8&NR=1

•  Arctic Animal Adapations:

  •  How animals are adapted to live in the arctic

  • World Wildlife Fund page about arctic animals

  • Animal and Plant adaptations to Arctic

  • NY Times article on species adaptations
          "Built for the Arctic"

• Arctic Animals:

  •  Arctic Animals K-3 Teacher's guide from Seaworld

  • Arctic Animals 4–8 Teacher’s Guide from Seaworld

• Beluga Training

  •  Seaworld Animal Behavior and Training K-3

  • Seaworld Animal Behavior and Training 4-6

• Life in the Arctic (cultural):

  • Adaptation to Climate Change in the Arctic: 
    Native Communities in Alaska

  •  Inuit Artists

  • Virtual museum exhibition about Nunavik

  • Inuit arts and crafts

More to come...
stay tuned!

Monterey Bay Resources
There are wonderful resources to support your study of Monterey Bay. Here are just a few:

• Monterey Bay Aquarium website: this is RICH in content and activities. Make sure you check out these pages:
  >  Fun and Learning - included games, web cams and 
      field guides and more
  >  The Teacher's Place for Classroom Resources -
      check out the activities and download the Sea
      Searchers handbook
  >  Natural History Posters - Animal "I SPY": These
      beautiful posters challenge your students to find
      critters in their environments.
• National Marine Sanctuaries: click on the globe to access Monterey Bay's pages and find your way to the Teacher resources pages for even more activities.
• SIMoN - Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network - this site provides interactive maps, great pictures and detailed content of organisms and... more!
• Deep Sea IMAX Movie Educator Guide

Speaker Day Power Points for Monterey Bay:

• Kelp PPT
• Bioluminescence PPT

There are many many more on Immersion Presents website.
Click here to get the links for each curriculum activity.
 

Dolphin Resources

The Dolphin Pod is a podcast produced by researchers from the Dolphin Communication Project and Immersion Presents. It is a weekly science podcast providing subscribers with information concerning dolphin behavior, cognition, anatomy, physiology, conservation, etc. Additionally, The Dolphin Pod covers dolphin events in the news, summarizes and explains the results from recent studies on dolphins, and interviews scientists currently working on dolphin-related research projects http://www.thedolphinpod.com/

Other Dolphin Links and Resources

• A Dolphin Tale about a Tail: Marine scientists saved a baby bottle-nosed dolphin who lost her tail after getting tangled in a fishing net. Winter has learned how to swim without her tail, using her flippers instead, but she can't keep up with wild dolphins and she will be a permanent resident at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. For a link to the Aquarium -
  http://www.cmaquarium.org/Winter%20-%20baby%20bottlenose%20dolphin.htm
• Adventure on Dolphin Island: The book combines the best of fiction and non-fiction, with an exciting story of fantasy and adventure blended with fascinating true details about the sea and marine life. Author Ellen Prager is well known to JASON teachers for past ocean explorations.

Ancient Eruptions Resources

Virtual Volcano: The Discovery websites for Krakatoa and Yellowstone super-volcano are great interactive sites - make your own volcano and then get it to erupt!.  

Stay tuned for MORE resources and links!

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