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Professional Learning

Developing Your Own Sense of Place About the Polar Regions

Geologic Time, Fossils, and Archaeology: Content Knowledge for Teachers

Understanding Seasonal Change, Polar Extremes in Seasons, and the Aurora: Content Knowledge for Teachers

Weather and Climate: The Short and the Long of It

Solar Energy, Albedo, and the Polar Regions

The Forces that Change the Face of Earth

The Basics of Rocks and Minerals and Polar Geology

How Do Birds Stay Warm?

What is a Mammal? Answers from Ross MacPhee

Plants of the Arctic and Antarctic

Life in the Tundra

Poles Apart: A Tale of Two Oceans

Glaciers: Earth’s Rivers of Ice

Reconsidering the Water Cycle in the Context of the Polar Regions

Peoples under the Arctic Sky

Cool Facts about Heat

Who Got There First? The North Pole Controversies

Unlocking the Climate History Captured in Ice

Climate Literacy in the Elementary Classroom

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