Arctic Ocean
Foraging for Fish in a Melting Arctic: the Black Guillemots' Quest to Feed Their Young Kindergarten and up. Lesson Plan (PDF, 913 KB) Scientist Presentation (PDF, 2.82 MB)

Bowhead Whale Unit Grades 1-3. Lesson Plan (PDF, 203 KB)

Arctic Smorgasbord High School. Lesson Plan (PDF, 102 KB) Arctic Food Web Cards (PDF, 650 KB)

Arctic Food Web in Language Arts High School.Lesson Plan (PDF, 99 KB)

Arctic Sea Ice Impacts on Temperature, Salinity, and Density of Sea Water Middle School and up. Lesson Plan (PDF, 130 KB)

These lesson plans were developed as part of Marine Ecosystem Workshops sponsored by COSEE Alaska and its partners Alaska Sea Grant, the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, the Alaska SeaLife center, Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) and the UAF Center for Crosscultural Studies to engage scientists and teachers in collaborative development of lesson plans. Major support for the workshops was provided by the National Science Foundation.

b>Bering Sea Workshop October, 2010. Collaboration with the North Pacific Research Board (NPRB), and the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS), and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
Gulf of Alaska Workshop June, 2011. Collaboration with the North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) EARTH Program.
Arctic Ocean Workshop May, 2012. Collaboration with the North Slope Borough School District, North Pacific Research Board (NPRB), and the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS).

Bering Sea

Life Cycle of Blue King Crab in the Bering Sea Grades 9-12. Lesson Plan  (PDF, 784 KB)

Blue King Crab Habitat in the Bering Sea Grades 9-12. Lesson Plan (PDF, 707 KB)

Climate Change Impacts on Blue King Crab Grades 9-12.
Lesson Plan (PDF, 686 KB)

These lesson plans were developed by Alexanda Doty as outreach for her research funded by the North Pacific Research Board.

Other Resources

Frontier Scientists Vodcasts 04.26.2011     Short vodcasts feature current research and the scientists involved. Four Climate Watch vodcasts, including ones on Changing Biomes and Permafrost, and a series on research at Lake El'Gypytgyn in Siberia involving coring through 3.5 million years of lake sediments to reconstruct Arctic paleo-environments were still in production on April, 2011. MORE >>

Faces of Climate Change Videos 02.28.2011     Three compelling short videos showcase the dramatic changes in Alaska's marine ecosystems through interviews with scientists and Alaska Natives. This video was produced by COSEE Alaska, the Alaska Sea Grant program, the Alaska Marine Conservation Council, and the Alaska Ocean Observing System MORE >>

Alaska Native Knowledge and Climate Science: designing culturally-relevant education for a changing ocean. 08.17.2010     COSEE Alaska presentation at the Northwest Aquatic and Marine Educators Conference, Florence, OR. July 2010. MORE >>

PolarPALOOZA 08.01.2010     Educational site about the International Polar Year. MORE >>

SEARCH: Sea Ice and Walrus Observation (SIWO) 03.01.2010     SIWO is a resource for Alaska Native subsistence hunters, coastal communities, and others interested in sea ice and walrus. MORE >>

SIKU: Knowing Our Ice: documenting Inuit sea-ice knowledge and use. 2010. 03.01.2010     Edited by Igor Krupnik et. al. MORE >>

Two Ways of Knowing. 2010. 03.01.2010     David and Doug Barber. A product of the IPY Circumpolar Flaw Lead Study onboard the icebreaker Amundsen which studied the leads in Arctic sea ice. MORE >>

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