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Rediscovering Alaska: December 2010

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This is a blogsite created by James White for the Explore Alaska! Alaska Native and Western Perspectives on Earth's Systems course offered through the Alaska Staff Development Network. The posts below are my assignments and experiences while I Explore Alaska! Thursday, December 23, 2010. Module #6 - Atmosphere is here! Below are the links to some of my favorites. Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere. Compare and Contrast Warm and Cold Air Fronts. It is important for students to connect their what they ar...

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Cultural Connections in Earth Science: December 2010

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Cultural Connections in Earth Science. Tuesday, December 28, 2010. Final Project: Snow Cover Inquiry. Visual from Unite Us illustrating snow cover beneath spruce trees and in the open. Middle and High School Students in the Chugach Extension School Program. With supplements from the resources gathered from our course modules. This will be the first middle/high school lesson I've ever engaged in. 1 Learn CSD science process skills:. A Develop questions and formulate a testable hypothesis. 5 Relate snow co...

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Cultural Connections in Earth Science: October 2010

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Cultural Connections in Earth Science. Thursday, October 28, 2010. Module IV: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Tsunamis. This picture shows my husband and dog during one snowfall we experienced last year in Valdez. This one snowfall dumped more than 5 feet of snow. Just one snowfall! The picture below shows the dashboard of a plane my husband was flying in this summer in Barrow. Explain: What new learning have you taken from this module? Helped solidify my understanding of this process. Now it really makes se...

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Explore Alaska: Module Seven

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Wednesday, December 1, 2010. What new learning or reflections have you taken from this module? Http:/ visibleearth.nasa.gov/view rec.php? How might you use this week’s information and resources in your lessons? Http:/ science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/ems.html. Lawrence Berkeley National Labratory http:/ www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/ALSTool/EMSpec/EMSpec2.html. How useful, insightful or relevant are this module’s information and resources? The American Flag on Wrangell Land, Near East Cape".

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Explore 907: November 2010

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Wednesday, November 24, 2010. Something else from this module that intrigued me was the information about the big bang. I had no idea that we could detect remnant microwaves from this event. The fact that we have this piece of visible evidence for something that happened so long ago is pretty amazing. I was curious to learn what other cultures might believe about how the universe was created, so I looked up some creation stories. Painting of P'an Ku from Google Images. Soon I plan on also using the video...

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Eric Explores Alaska!: October 2010

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Sunday, October 31, 2010. Module 4: Cataclysmic Events and Their Effects. My excitement lies in finding connections between things my students have backgrounds in and things that I have backgrounds in, and then having that bridge appear that can link the two. Which brings me to. Maui and the "Big Catch". Ching in New Zealand. The Maori. The indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand, share an almost identical creation myth. In my history classes I am teaching (both US History and Alaska Studies) I like ...

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Cultural Connections in Earth Science: Module IX: Terrestrial Cryosphere

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Cultural Connections in Earth Science. Wednesday, December 22, 2010. Module IX: Terrestrial Cryosphere. Couldn't resist putting in this Columbia Glacier picture of my husband's. What a splendid element of the terrestrial cryosphere! I'll talk a bit about the glacier in this week's blog. Explain: What new learning have you taken from this module? One alarming new piece of information to me was from the YouTube video Burping Lakes. The TD video Changing Arctic Landscape. A really wonderful resource is GLOB...

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Alaskanwisdom: November 2010

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Monday, November 29, 2010. Module 8 - How are Arctic sea-ice, climate and culture all connected? This unit was a good one for me, mostly because I have never seen true sea ice. Here in Southeast, we simply don't have any sea ice to speak of, so the whole idea of a large body of frozen water is pretty fascinating and seems impossible. Likewise the idea of being affected here by a change in this sea ice that I have never seen before is a new concept. I was interested to learn about the ICC Canada. To my st...

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Exploring Alaska with Kenai Kathy: Button up: This week we visit the cryosphere!

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Exploring Alaska with Kenai Kathy. Sunday, November 28, 2010. Button up: This week we visit the cryosphere! Button up: This week we visit the cryosphere! How ironic that one of the important pieces of the global warming puzzle is the cryosphere! I first learned that term in a class last summer. Until then, I had never thought about earth’s icy caches as being such a vital part of our climate and more specifically of climate change. Children in Pt. Hope, AK (Photo by K. East). This really sums up the extr...

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Exploring Alaska with Kenai Kathy: Module V: Oceans all around abound!

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Exploring Alaska with Kenai Kathy. Sunday, November 7, 2010. Module V: Oceans all around abound! Oceans all around abound! As I was going through this weeks’ material, I kept coming back to one thought: The earth is such a complex, interconnected system – how can we even begin to comprehend it? There are so many things that influence our dynamic planet. Since oceans cover most of the planet, they are a formidable force determining our climate, weather, flora, fauna, and our very survival. As I work on de...