Member Stories Taking Science Classes Outdoors February 2, 2022 PEI Blogs Taking science classes outdoors enriches science curriculum and builds student enthusiasm as well as science skills! Doing field work as a PolarTREC teacher (Climate Change and Pollinators in the Arctic…
Member Stories Swimming In Reflection: The Process of Arctic Interdisciplinary Course Design September 28, 2021 PEI Blogs It is late August. The water and air are still at 6 am and we find ourselves standing on a dock looking at the lake we are about to swim.…
Member Stories Children-Climate-Camp 2021 September 28, 2021 PEI Blogs Every year the ‘Bund Naturschutz’ in Wartaweil, Germany is organizing a one week event for schools just before the summer holidays start. It is called ‘Kinder Klima Camp – KKC’…
Member Stories Who is a Polar Educator? August 1, 2021 PEI Blogs I live in suburban St. Louis, MO, about as midwestern United States as you can get. The local news just said we are in a heat advisory for the next…
Member Stories Using Geospatial Technologies for Polar Education July 16, 2021 PEI Blogs One of the biggest challenges about going to the polar regions as an educator is then trying to come up with methods of teaching about the region that allows students…
Member Stories Leave No Trace? April 3, 2021 PEI Blogs I love to venture into the outdoors and explore; hiking, backpacking and camping, while adhering to the rule, “Leave no trace.” I pick up trash, including that of others, and…
Member Stories Uncategorized Storytelling about Sophie goes South by Alison Lester (2012) – eTwinning project 2020 April 2, 2020 PEI Blogs Author: Kolbrún Svala Hjaltadóttir At the Cambridge Workshop in April 2019, I saw Alison Lester‘s book from 2012, which she wrote after going on a six-week trip with the ship…
Member Stories GETTING PAST THE PENGUINS; ANTARCTIC CRUISES AND CLIMATE LITERACY February 4, 2020 PEI Blogs Author: Susy Ellison While working as a naturalist on an Antarctic cruise ship I was often asked, “What’s your role?” My reply? “I am here to help you create connections…
Member Stories PEI Members Present Climate Change Labs at AGU-GIFT Workshop January 9, 2020 Inga Beck Authors: Louise Huffman and Bill Grosser As we all know, scientists are telling us that climate change knowledge and action are urgently needed to avoid worst case scenarios from a…
Member Stories Polar project (The Polar project) in eTwinning December 6, 2019 Inga Beck In the spring of 2019, students and teachers at Setberg School in Hafnarfjordur worked on an Polar Project with two other schools in Serbia and Spain. We used eTwinning area…
