Archive for 2008

Untersee Tents

October 14th, 2008

Untersee tent insturctions: Tent Instructions 1, Tent Instructions 2, Tent Instructions 3

Perfectly Penguin

October 13th, 2008

An Educator’s Guide to Lesson Plans about the Tuxedoed Bird
Table of Contents
Suggested Activities

Related Exhibitions at the Field Museum
Penguin Stories
Antarctic Journal
The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin
How do Penguins Keep Warm?
What Does a Skull Tell You?
More About Bird Beaks
Life Begins in an Egg
Penguin Movies
March of the Penguins
Happy Feet

Links:
Lesson Plan
Power Point Presentations:
Adelie Penguin Adapt
Antarctic Penguins
Birds, Beaks, & [...]

Cataclysmic Climate Change

October 13th, 2008

An Educator’s Guide to Lesson Plans about Our Warming Planet
Suggested Activites
Related Exhibitions at the Field Museum
Climate Change Stories
The Greenhouse Effect
Global Warming
Global Warming In a Jar
It’s Getting Warm in Here
It’s Freezing Down Here
Climate Change Movies
An Inconvenient Truth
Links:
Lesson Plan
Power Point Presentations:
World View of Global Warming

Amazingly Antarctica

October 13th, 2008

An Educator’s Guide to Lesson Plans about the Frozen Continent
Table of Contents
Suggested Activities

Related Exhibitions at the Field museum
Antarctica Stories
Antarctic Journal: 4 Months at the Bottom of the World
How to Survive in Antarctica

Where In the World is Antarctica?
Planning an Expedition
Just How Cold Will It Be In Antarctica?
Global Warming at the Coldest Place On Earth
Antarctic Movies
Encounters at [...]

Always Adapting

October 13th, 2008

Always Adapting
An Educator’s Guide to Lesson Plans about the Adaptation of Life at the Poles
Table of Contents
Suggested Activities

Related Exhibitions at the Field Museum
Always Adapting Stories
Poles Apart: Why Penguins and Polar Bears Will Never Be Neighbors
Can You See the Polar Bear?
Everyone Needs to Adapt
Large or Small… What Keeps You Warmer?
Always Adapting Movies
Planet Earth - Ice Worlds

Links:
Lesson [...]