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

调查人员将于2010年3月乘坐雪地摩托穿越从费尔班克斯到阿拉斯加的普鲁德霍湾，访问沿着的10所乡村学校，并收集雪样和其他数据。主要重点是访问费尔班克，内纳纳，曼利，塔纳纳，阿拉卡凯特，阿纳克图武克，阿特卡苏克，巴罗努伊克苏特和怀斯曼，阿拉斯加的学校，在那里，四名研究人员组成的团队将花1-2天的时间与教师和学生一起开展有关雪化学和物理学的室内和室外活动。首席研究员已经出版了两本书，以促进雪教育？阿潘：北极雪？（马修·斯特姆，阿拉斯加大学出版社，2009年）是一本面向年轻学生的书，而？阿潘：教师指南？（马修·斯特姆，阿拉斯加大学出版社，2009年）是一本为年长的学生或教育工作者提供的雪指南。这些材料采用系统科学的方法来研究环境中的雪，并包括多元文化的视角，其中包括书中描述的现象的Inupiaq词汇。重点是学生和教师，将在遍历期间访问，通过了解雪，在北极的一个普遍特征，分享知识和科学的热情，并教物理和化学的基本概念使用雪。此外，研究人员将把室内和室外活动编制成教室工作手册。一个网站将在整个遍历过程中更新，并将包括供遍历未访问的学校使用的相关教育材料，并作为遍历后的资源。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，收集样本并进行观察。合作研究人员将分析雪样中的烟尘和汞。一位国家公园服务处的生物学家将加入穿越的团队，进一步开发一项利用雪地上的动物足迹来估计动物数量的活动。Yupik和Athabaskan语言将被纳入未来的迭代？阿潘？以及将在遍历之后发布的活动手册。 该项目在学年期间让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冰雪覆盖地区教学有关的教学资源。在该奖项的支持下，教师指导和项目产品的传播将继续通过学校访问和会议进行。对参与该项目的教师进行的调查将用于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.