Outreach and Education of Arctic K-12 Students Using the Winter Snow Cover

调查人员将于2010年3月乘坐雪地摩托从费尔班克斯前往阿拉斯加的普拉德霍湾，沿途走访10所乡村学校，收集雪样和其他数据。主要重点是访问费尔班克、涅纳纳、曼利、塔纳纳、阿拉凯特、阿纳克图武克、阿特卡苏克、巴罗·努克苏特和阿拉斯加州怀斯曼的学校，在那里，由四名研究人员组成的团队将与教师和学生一起工作1-2天，开展有关雪化学和物理的室内和室外活动。首席调查员出版了两本促进雪教育的书？阿潘：北极雪？(Matthew Sturm，阿拉斯加大学出版社，2009)是一本面向年轻学生和教师指南的书？(Matthew Sturm，阿拉斯加大学出版社，2009)是年长学生或教育工作者的雪指南。这些材料对环境中的雪采取了系统科学的方法，并包括了一个多元文化的视角，其中包括书中描述的现象的Inupiaq词汇。重点是将在穿越期间访问的学生和教师，通过了解雪这一北极普遍存在的特征来分享知识和对科学的热情，并利用雪教授基本的物理和化学概念。此外，调查人员将把室内和室外活动发展成课堂练习册。网站将在整个导线过程中更新，并将包括相关的教育材料，供导线未访问的学校使用，并作为导线后续的资源。研究人员还将重新访问美国地质调查局1924年调查的地点，以及研究小组在过去10年中研究的地点，以重建旧照片、收集样本和进行观察。合作研究人员将对雪样进行烟尘和汞的分析。国家公园管理局的一名生物学家将加入这次穿越的团队，以进一步开发一项活动，利用雪中的动物足迹作为估计动物数量的一种方式。Yupik和Athabaskan语言将被合并到？Apun的未来迭代中。以及将在遍历之后出版的活动书。该项目在学年期间吸引阿拉斯加偏远地区的学生和教师参与，并支持制作与阿拉斯加农村和其他白雪覆盖地区的教学有关的教学资源。在该奖项的支持下，教师将继续通过访问学校和在会议上传播该项目的产品。将使用对参与该项目的教师的调查来为活动手册的编写提供信息。

The investigators will take a snowmobile traverse in March 2010 from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska visiting 10 village schools along the way and collecting snow samples and other data. The primary emphasis is on visits to schools in Fairbank, Nenana, Manley, Tanana, Allakaket, Anaktuvuk, Atqasuk, Barrow Nuiqsut and Wiseman, Alaska, where the team of four researchers will spend 1-2 days working with teachers and students on indoor and outdoor activities about snow chemistry and physics. The lead investigator has published two books to facilitate snow education ?Apun: The Arctic Snow? (Matthew Sturm, University of Alaska Press, 2009) is a book for young students and ?Apun: Teachers Guide? (Matthew Sturm, University of Alaska Press, 2009) is a guide to snow for older students or educators. The materials take a system science approach to snow in the environment and include a multicultural perspective that includes Inupiaq vocabulary for the phenomenon described in the books. The focus is on the students and teachers that will be visited during the traverse, to share knowledge and passion for science through understanding snow, a prevalent feature in the Arctic, and to teach essential concepts of physics and chemistry using snow. In addition the investigators will develop the indoor and outdoor activities into a workbook for classrooms. A website will be updated throughout the traverse and will include educational materials relevant for use by schools not visited by the traverse and as a resource following the traverse. The researchers will also revisit sites from a 1924 survey by the U.S. Geological Survey and sites studied over the previous 10 years by the research team to reconstruct old photographs, collect samples and make observations. Snow samples will be analyzed for soot and mercury by collaborating researchers. A National Park Service biologist will join the team on the traverse to further develop an activity using animal tracks in the snow as a way of estimating animal populations. Yupik and Athabaskan languages will be incorporated in future iterations of ?Apun? and the activity book that will be published following the traverse. This project engages students and teachers in remote parts of Alaska during the school year and supports the production of teaching resources that are relevant to teaching in rural Alaska and other snow-covered locations. Teacher mentoring and dissemination of products from the project will continue through school visits and at conferences with support from this award. A survey of teachers involved in the project will be used to inform the development of the activity book.