The following resources can be used to supplement the existing Will Steger Foundation Curriculum. Resources include links to external sites that contain helpful related information and activities, and clips from the Will Steger Foundation video and audio archives that can be connected with specific lesson plan topics.
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| Grades 3-6 | Grades 6-12 | Selected Activities |
Baffin Island Expedition 2007 |
Ellesmere Island Expedition 2008 |
Grades 3-6 Curriculum Resources
Note: Teachers looking for background information to supplement their teaching, and for more advanced students, can read through the readings included in our 6-12 grade curriculum.
Lesson One - Climate Change Pretest
- The opinion-based questions on the pretest come from a Gallup poll found here.
Will Steger Foundation Supplement
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: At home with the Pitsiulak family.
- Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Make a Difference.
Lesson Two – What is Climate Change?
- Regionally specific reports on the effects of climate change available at the Union of Concerned Scientist's website and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
Will Steger Foundation Supplement
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: A closer look at Lukie.
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: A Conversation with Jessieloosie.
- Baffin Island Expedition: Earth Day (video)
- Baffin Island Expedition: Glacier Loss (video)
- Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Ayles Ice Shelf.
Lesson Three – Climate Change Action
- Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Track Environmental Bills in Congress
Will Steger Foundation Supplement
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Pondering our Legacy
- Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Homebound
- Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Electricity from the sun
Lesson Four – Climate Change in the Media
- International Reading Assoc: Can you convince me? Developing persuasive writing at ReadWriteThink.org.
Will Steger Foundation Supplement
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: A Conversation with Theo
- Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Make a Difference
Lesson Plan Five – Communicating About Climate Change
Will Steger Foundation Supplement
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Qik Kids Speak Out Against Global Warming
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Clyde river students love their land
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Quluaq School Plans for Earth Day
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Students in Iglulik say "Respect Our Earth!"
- Baffin Island Expedition: Earth Day (video)
Grades 3-6 Lesson PowerPoint Presentation
- Climate Change Presentation - Lesson 2: Download (ZIP - Size 6.7MB)
- Climate Change Presentation - Lesson 3: Download (ZIP - Size 3.2MB)
- Climate Change Presentation - Lesson 4: Download (ZIP - Size 4.2MB)
- Climate Change Quiz Bowl Final: Download (ZIP - Size 720KB)
** Download the entire package here (ZIP - Size 14.8MB).
Grades 6-12
Lesson One – Our Unique Atmosphere
- Environmental Potection Agency (EPA): What is GWP?
- NASA: Today From Space: The Earth's Atmosphere: Near Real-Time Research Imagery
Will Steger Foundation Supplement
- Arctic Community Curriculum - Dr. John S. Kimball – Scientists
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Sunburns
Lesson Two – Emissions of Heat Trapping Gasses
- Environmental Potection Agency (EPA): Greenhouse gas calculator
- 20 Simple Steps to Reduce Global Warming
- Environmental Potection Agency (EPA): Convert heat trapping gas emissions to more-easily conceptualized quantities at the U.S. EPA website
- NASA Climate Time Machine
Will Steger Foundation Supplement
- Low-carbon lifestyle
- MN Energy Challenge
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Jessieloosie
- Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Adam Ayles
- Larsen Ice Shelf: Glacier Melt (audio)
Lesson Three - Communities of Living Things
Will Steger Foundation Supplement
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: A conversation with Theo
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Qujannanmiik (Thank You) Qikiqtarjuag
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Polar Bears and Arctic Hares
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Lemmings
- Baffin Island Expedition: Earth Day (video)
- Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Polar Bears!
- Larsen Ice Shelf: Krill
- Larsen Ice Shelf: Glacier Melt (audio)
- Arctic Community Curriculum
Lesson Four - Implications of a Warming Arctic
- NASA Scientific Visualization Studio - This is a conceptual animation showing how polar ice reflects light from the sun. As this ice begins to melt, less sunlight gets reflected into space. It is instead absorbed into the oceans and land, raising the overall temperature, and fueling further melting.
Will Steger Foundation Supplement
- Baffin Island Expedition: Glacier Loss (video)
- Baffin Island Expedition: Earth Day (video)
- Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Expedition Travels Through Arctic Ocean Ruins
- Larsen Ice Shelf: Antarctic Ocean, January 7th, 2008 (audio)
- Larsen Ice Shelf: January 10th, 2008 (audio)
- Larsen Ice Shelf: Global Tourism (audio)
- Arctic Community Curriculum: Martin Jakobsson – Scientists
Lesson Five – Regional Effects of Global Warming
- Climate.org, a project of the Climate Institute
- Climate Change Effect on Agriculture and Food Supply
Will Steger Foundation Supplement
- Larsen: B-15: An iceberg the size of Connecticut
- Larsen Ice Shelf: Glacier Melt (audio)
- Larsen Ice Shelf: Antarctic Ocean, January 7th, 2008 (audio)
- Larsen Ice Shelf: January 10th, 2008 (audio)
- Larsen Ice Shelf: Global Tourism (audio)
Lesson Six – What Now?
- Play the Wedge Game
- Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Track Environmental Bills in Congress
Will Steger Foundation Supplement
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Pondering our Legacy
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Reflecting on the Expedition
- Baffin Island Expedition: Earth Day (video)
- Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Homebound
- Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Electricity from the Sun
- Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Heading South
Baffin Island Expedition 2007
Trail Dispatches
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: At home with the Pitsiulak family.
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: A closer look at Lukie.
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: A Conversation with Jessieloosie.
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Pondering our Legacy
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: A Conversation with Theo
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Qik Kids Speak Out Against Global Warming
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Clyde river students love their land
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Quluaq School Plans for Earth Day
- Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Students in Iglulik say "Respect Our Earth!"
Expedition Videos
- Baffin Island Expedition: Earth Day (video)
- Baffin Island Expedition: Glacier Loss (video)
Ellesmere Island Expedition 2008
Expedition Team
- Ben Horton
- Video Interview - Steger Homestead, Ely, MN - October 2007
- Check out: www.benhorton.com & Ben's Blogspot page to learn more about Ben.
- Sarah
- Video Interview - Steger Homestead, Ely, MN - October 2007
- In 2007, Sarah, along with brother Eric and friend Curtis, crossed Greenland north to south using kites. The expedition website can be found here.
- Eric
- Video Interview - Steger Homestead, Ely, MN - October 2007
- Check out the Pittarak Expediton 2007, featuring Eric and Sarah McNair-Landry and Curtis Jones
- Sigrid
- Video Interview - Steger Homestead, Ely, MN - October 2007
- Sigrid is currently competing in the Copper Basin 300 Sled Dog Race and in February she will be running the Iditarod.
- Toby
- Video Interview - Steger Homestead, Ely, MN - October 2007
- Toby's FaceBook
- Toby's Blogspot Blog
- Toby's visit to St. Olaf on blogspot
- Toby in the news - Northland News
Dispatches
- Ayles Ice Shelf
Activities
- Disappearing Snow - Carbon-Info: The Albedo Effect
Inuit Culture Links:
- Center for International Environmental Law:
- National Public Radio (NPR): Inuit Group Confronts Global Warming Threat (audio)
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