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Polar Problems 2

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Polar Problems, Continued

  1. Polar Problems, Continued
  2. International Polar Year Update
    1. Ocean Exploration
  3. Polar Project Make-Up Work
  4. Our Polar Project Home Page
  5. Learning Goals
  6. Gathering Ideas: Research Strategies Review
  7. Project Work:
    1. October: Research
    2. 9/9 Write a gist statement
    3. 10/2 Anecdote with strong verbs
    4. 10 7-8 Write a gist statement
    5. Mid-October: Research Global Warming
      1. Links:
    1. 10/15 Gist Statement.
    2. 10/ 15 DRAFT
    3. 10/20 Synthesis Arctic Paragraphs Second Draft
  8. MORE LINKS FOR YOUR ANIMAL RESEARCH
    1. Arctic Adaptations
      1. Polar Bear
      2. Arctic Fox
      3. Puffin
      4. Porcupine Caribou
      5. Collared Lemming

 

International Polar Year Update

 

Main Site

http://www.ipy.org/

 

Australia Antarctic Update

http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=35204&source=5023&rank=1

http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=21915

 

Ocean Exploration

http://thejr.org/

Polar Project Make-Up Work

This page: Make-up Page as of 10/22:  https://whatelse.pbwiki.com/Polar+Make-up

 

If you have work to make-up, here are the links and directions.  Some of you may have grades you would like to improve. Find your assignment here.

 

Our Polar Project Home Page

 

http://whatelse.pbwiki.com/Polar-Problems

 

Learning Goals

 

Use the writing process to gather ideas, draft information, revise for clarity, edit for readability, and publish for persuasion.

 

Understand how life adapts to live in the Arctic. Understand what affects life in the Arctic. Anaylze the connection of those effects on the Arctic, our community, and in the world.

 

Gathering Ideas: Research Strategies Review

 

Prewriting Strategies to create researched presentation: research, paraphrasing, key words, spelling, citing sources, draft, summaries, gist

 

Project Work:

 

October: Research

 

Research an animal or people of your choice (see project home page)

 

Be prepared to share their findings with the class about:

 

    * Size

 

    * Habitat

 

    * Diet

 

    * Predators

 

    * Adaptation to the environment (behavioral and biological)

 

    * Environmental Threats to survival

 

    * Connections of environmental issues to your life

 

    * Connections of environmental issues to world communities

 

9/9 Write a gist statement

A GIST STATEMENT is 20 word summary statement of ALL the main ideas you have learned so far.

 

10/2 Anecdote with strong verbs

 

Write as if you are your people or creature. Be the animal. Make your life come alive. Read over your "lively" writing about your creature. Revise it with strong verbs. Share.

 

https://whatelse.pbwiki.com/Strong-Verbs

 

10 7-8 Write a gist statement

Write a gist statement on what you have learned from your research so far.

 

Mid-October: Research Global Warming

 

Links:

 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0727_050727_globalwarming.html

 

This site is very difficult, but you can try it:

 

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html

 

Other links we have in our project page:

 

How does global warming work?

 

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-impacts-interactive.html

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19463513/

 

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/

 

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-overview.html

 

10/15 Gist Statement.

 

10/ 15 DRAFT

Write a draft of your ideas so far. Use paragraphs.

 

    * What animal is your research about?

 

    * How does your animal survive the Arctic?

 

    * How is global warming affecting your animal?

 

    * How are we as humans contributing to your animal's problem?

 

    * How is the problem of global warming affecting us?

 

And:

 

Will what we do change the polar environments?

 

How do you think these changes may ultimately affect us?

 

10/20 Synthesis Arctic Paragraphs Second Draft

 

Write a paragraph that answers these questions using specific facts and details. Use strong verbs and precise nouns. Your paragraphs should not list answers, but include, in its explanation of your research, information that would answer these questions for the reader of your work:

What animal is your research about?

 

How does your animal survive the Arctic?

 

How is global warming affecting your animal?

 

How are we as humans contributing to your animal's problem?

 

How is the problem of global warming affecting us?

 

Will what we do change the polar environments?

 

How do you think these changes may ultimately affect us?

MORE LINKS FOR YOUR ANIMAL RESEARCH

More Links for Future Research (You may start ahead of time)

 

Arctic Adaptations

 

http://www2.ic.edu/beal/ecobiome.html

 

http://www.runet.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/tundra/tundra.html

 

 

Polar Bear

 

http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/polarbear/polar.php

http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/

 

"In the Arctic winter the predominant background color is white.  The temperature is extremely cold so animals have adapted for survival.  The polar bear looks white and this adaptation protects the bears from being seen by predators.  The polar bear’s top fur is actually transparent, hollow hair shafts.  There is a dense ‘woolly’ undercoat.  (The bears also have a layer of blubber under their skin.)  Air is trapped in the hollow hair shafts and this provides insulation for the bears.  The hairs reflect the light so that the color of the bear looks white.  The hair does not mat so that ice and water can be shaken off easily.  The polar bear’s skin is black.  Black absorbs light wavelengths so that the skin absorbs the warmth from the light and holds it instead of reflecting it away from the skin." 

 

Source:  http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/staff/dunton/k12/Polar%20Bear%20Adaptations.htm

 

 

 

 

Arctic Fox

 

http://ths.sps.lane.edu/biomes/tundra3/tundra3.html#Animals

http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/cyberzoo/arcticfox.html 

http://www.csulb.edu/~jmastrop/data1.html 

http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/olson_alex/interactions.htm

http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/olson_alex/adaptation.htm

 

 

Puffin

 

http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/puffins.htm

" While it is well known that marine mammals such as whales, seals, and polar bears have thick layers of fat to help keep them warm, northern seabirds such as puffins also rely on internal layers of fat to help them survive frigid Arctic waters. This fat, combined with their external water-repelling and air-trapping coat of feathers, allows seabirds to live in a seemingly harsh environment. (Older students could research other adaptations to the cold, for birds as well as other life forms.) "

 

http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/554notes3.html    scroll down

 

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Cottage/4304/puffin/information.html

 

http://www.athropolis.com/arctic-facts/fact-puffin.htm

 

http://www.audubon.org/bird/boa/F44_G1c.html

 

http://www.abirdshome.com/Audubon/VolVII/00766.html

 

 

 

Porcupine Caribou

http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/ANWR/anwrcaribou.html

http://home.gwu.edu/~gwg/adventure/wild.html

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=30240

 

http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2032

http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10639&page=132

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collared Lemming

 

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/pubs/notebook/smgame/lemmings.php

http://homepage.eircom.net/~snowland/snowanimals.htm

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/381940

http://www.wildlifenews.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlife_news.view_article&articles_id=31&issue_id=10

 

http://www.taiga.net/yourYukon/col407.html

 http://www.britannica.com/bps/browse/alpha/d/60#search=tab~TOPICS%2Cterm~collared%20lemming

 

 

 

 

 

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