CLASSROOM RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT REMOTE SENSING:

    Satellites and other remote sensing strategies now provide  increasingly  important tools for scientists, planners, and emergency responders in connection with natural disasters. Here are links to two web sites explaining more about remote sensing techniques:

   Originally, we were to be joined also by Dr. Christopher Small, but his research investigations have taken him to Oman at this time. Chris will join us again in the fall.
Chris Small--one of the original E2C guest scientists when we began this program in 1998!--leads the Remote Sensing group at LDEO. Recently, he applied remote sensing techniques to helping in the tsunami relief and research efforts.
     Link to Dr. Small's home pages:  http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~small/

   ISS EarthKAM http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/educators/index.shtml
     The International Space Station will not become fully functional for years, but since 1996, images have been taken from the ISS that provide scientists and students with great views of our planet. You can find out much more about the ISS through http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/.
     Numerous activities for students have been created and are available on-line at http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/educators/activities/index.shtml. These include "Introductory" actvities about using the ISS EarthKAM images (presented through a bingo game); Earth Science and geography lessons about deltas, volcanoes, and other features; studying weather from space; and mathematics.

SELECTED CLASSROOM RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT ANTARCTICA
(identified through a search with www.dlese.org)

   Classroom Antarctica http://classroomantarctica.aad.gov.au/index.html
Lessons and background information for students and teachers created by the Australian Antarctic Division

   British Antarctic Survey: About Antarctica http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/About_Antarctica/index.html 

   Antarctic Field Trip http://www.field-trips.org/sci/antarctic/index.htm

   Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic http://tea.armadaproject.org/

   The Great Ice Age (USGS) http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/ice_age/index.html 

SELECTED CLASSROOM RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT LAKE VOSTOK
(identified through a search with www.dlese.org)  

   NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientific visualization studio animation http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a000900/a000996/index.html

   NASA Space Science News: Europa and Antarctica http://www.southpole.com/newhome/headlines/ast09sep99_1.htm

   National Academies Press Frontiers in Polar Biology in the Genomics Era http://www.nap.edu/books/0309087279/html/

LESSON PLANS and ACTIVITIES FROM E2C/TC TEACHERS

     Rachel Flading: "Extremophiles" (grs. 4 - 8)

     WHAT DO WE NEED TO FIND LIFE IN EXTREME CONDITIONS?