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NASA

Nasa: 2016 Climate Trends Continue to Break Records

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA studies of global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent provide data to determine climate changes on Earth. Research for only the first half of 2016 identifies the year as being one of the hottest on record.
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The Franklin Trail: Building an Igloo

For Students 9th - 10th
The Franklin Trail is the web site for a group of archaeologists and adventurers who made numerous trips to the Arctic to investigate what happened to the Franklin Expedition. This page of the site describes in detail how to build an igloo.
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Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company: Our History: James Houston

For Students 9th - 10th
James Houston was a devoted arctic naturalist and writer. His life and accomplishments as well as his dedication to the Inuit people are profiled in this article.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Gray Whale Migration Study

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow gray whales as they make their long journey from Mexico to their feeding grounds in the Arctic. This webpage gives students background information and up to date news about the migration of the gray whales. Also, students can...
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Other

Ilititaa: Bernier, His Men and the Inuits

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is devoted to Joseph-Elzear Bernier's Arctic expeditions. Augmented by audio narration and many historical photos, the site is easily navigated via the pop-up site map. An animated cartoon storybook will appeal to younger...
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Google

Google Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the entire world or your local area through Google's maps, Street View photos, satellite images, and in a 360-degree panorama. Take a virtual field trip to an Arctic town or a Pacific island, a famous landmark, a bird sanctuary,...
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Other

New Bedford Whaling Museum: Online Exhibitions

For Students 9th - 10th
The New Bedford Whaling Museum provides a well-done, comprehensive site that includes all aspects of American whaling. This site is a pleasure to amble through if you love the lore and legend of late eighteenth-century sailing ships,...
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Other

Town of Cochrane: Welcome to the Town of Cochrane

For Students 9th - 10th
Cochrane, Ontario is located 720 kilometers north of Toronto in the Arctic Watershed. Its mascot is the giant Polar Bear Chimo (an Inuit word meaning "I am friendly" or "Welcome"). Information details the town's history, economy and...
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Nature Research

Nature News and Comment: Ancient Migration: Coming to America

For Students 9th - 10th
A May, 2012 news feature from Nature magazine looks again at early migration theories that brought man across the Arctic to America. Was Clovis man really the earliest?
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Read Works

Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Where Do Polar Bears Live?

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson is a close reading of "Where Do Polar Bears Live?". After reading the book to the class, students will be able to identify and recall characteristics that allow polar bears to survive in an extremely cold Arctic environment....
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Tracking Polar Bears

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity adapted from the USGS Alaska Science Center, students will track the movements of a polar bear as it migrates across the changing Arctic sea ice and compare the paths of four different polar bears.
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Curated OER

Bureau of Land Management: Bureau of Land Management

For Students 9th - 10th
The BLM manages one in every 10 acres of land in the United States, and approximately 30 percent of the Nation's minerals. These lands and minerals are found in every state in the country and encompass forests, mountains, rangelands,...
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National Wildlife Federation

National Wildlife Magazine: Grizzly Bears on Ice

For Students 9th - 10th
Grizzly bears are moving north and living in areas traditionally inhabited by polar bears. Their survival in this environment is shaky at best as politicians consider opportunities for oil exploration and the building of pipelines in the...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Snowy Owl

For Students 9th - 10th
This Smithsonian website has a brief, but thorough, article on the Snowy Owl that also includes a picture and an extensive quote from the 19th Century naturalist Edward Nelson.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Walrus

For Students 9th - 10th
This Smithsonian website has a brief, but thorough, article on the Walrus that also includes pictures and an extensive quote from naturalist Edward Nelson.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Repatriation

For Students 9th - 10th
"Repatriation", returning to one's origin, is a program running through the Smithsonian examining Native American artifacts.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Bald Eagle

For Students 9th - 10th
This Smithsonian website has a brief but thorough article on the Bald Eagles. Content also includes pictures and an extensive quote from naturalist Edward Nelson as he discusses the role of eagles in Eskimo myth.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Beluga Whale

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a general overview of the Beluga Whale, complete with the personal observations of 19th Century Naturalist, Edward Nelson.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: The Living Yamal

For Students 9th - 10th
A Smithsonian site that tells of the history and culture of the Yamal people of Siberia.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Crossroads of Continents

For Students 9th - 10th
Very interesting Smithsonian web exhibition on the culture of the peoples surrounding the Bering Strait. Enter the museum to find lost cultures due to the Cold War. Fun museum to click around in!
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BBC

Bbc: New World Link to Arctic Find

For Students 9th - 10th
Could the findings at Yana in northern Siberia point to an earlier crossing into the New World? Scientists are studying the evidence that point to sophisticated human hunters throughout the area at an earlier era than previously thought.
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Curated OER

Cornell Lab of Ornithology : Common Loon

For Students 9th - 10th
An abundance of facts, pictures, and sounds of the Arctic Tern can be found on this informative site. Listen to the sounds of this bird species on this site as well.
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Curated OER

Cornell Lab of Ornithology : Common Loon

For Students 9th - 10th
An abundance of facts, pictures, and sounds of the Arctic Tern can be found on this informative site. Listen to the sounds of this bird species on this site as well.
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Curated OER

Cornell Lab of Ornithology : Common Loon

For Students 9th - 10th
An abundance of facts, pictures, and sounds of the Arctic Tern can be found on this informative site. Listen to the sounds of this bird species on this site as well.

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