Continuing Conversations: Using IPY Resources to Extend and Enhance Classroom Investigations of...

Continuing Conversations:Continuing Conversations:

Using IPY Resources to Extend and Using IPY Resources to Extend and Enhance Classroom Investigations of Enhance Classroom Investigations of

Climate ChangeClimate Change

Kathy GorskiEinstein Fellow

NSF/Office of Polar Programs

Author’s notes:Author’s notes:

• Several slides have been added in order to include sites recommended at the symposium session.

• They have also been added to the IPY resources doc file.

• Sites recommended at other IPY talks during the regional meeting have also been added to both files.

• Sites displayed as screen shots in order to facilitate navigation from homepage or URL (as listed).

Site SelectionSite Selection

• Many, many sites - often specialized, and not obviously targeted to classroom use.– Need to be an polar expert to select best

search terms

• These sites represent best cumulative pools and best starting points.– List is not comprehensive– Sites are broader in scope rather than

specialized in content• Many link to specialty data and information

Selection CriteriaSelection Criteria• Accuracy

– Reliable, free from error

• Authority– Author is known, credentials available, publisher is

reputable

• Objectivity– Information is free of bias, controversial statements

represent both sides, no hidden agenda

• Currency– Information is up-to-date, updates are identified

• Coverage– topics are thoroughly and adequately covered; breadth

of coverage is sufficient for website’s purpose

• “comfortable” and “familiar”

• easy to use• extensive results

• but…. best resources often missed

United States home for IPY

information, activities & resources

• www.ipy.org• international

home of IPY information, activities, & resources

• “same but different”!

National

Science

Digital

Library

Literacy Maps tie benchmarks directly to resources

scroll and click to refine your search

• free to join• excellent

resources• most are fair

use and/or copyright free

be sure to check tour dates to see if it’s coming near you!

Project Iceberg

Flexhibit

& Climate Secrets

http://www.ipy-roam.org then select ‘outreach’

http://sel.utep.edu/IPY-ROAM/outreach.html

• Google IPY Roam for easier access

• Follow Dr. Tweedie’s group with their blog and podcasts!

• They start their ROAM’n on Int’l Polar Day (12/13)

•Wonderful site for sea ice

•Does not “come to the top” in google

Mapping Tools

Great photos

Good captions

Books for HooksBooks for Hooks

• Books can provide cross-curricular links

• Fiction and non-fiction are both useful– Biographies can link to science careers– Historical novels provide context

– Polar science can be background or settings• Topic or plot need not be strictly science

• All resources (and more) are listed on handouts.

• Don’t forget…– December 13th is International Polar Day– 3 webinars provide further opportunities to

learn more– Discussion list connect you with presenters

and other educators