Your Study Resources: Module 1
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Note: to quickly find something in the document, you can use the search feature, but also note the button in the lower-left corner which allows you to quickly get an overview by viewing all pages in the curriculum at once.
Pages listed as being available for projection in Study Resource may also be accessed below. They are provided as individual page-specific PDFs where indicated.
NAVIGATING TIME AND SPACE
Teacher Notes 1a Carta Marina (PDF, 2MB) >>
Baking Gáhkku
http://www.ajasamisksenter.no/slides.php?&id=126101&showid=1316&startslide=0&nf=1
Excellent little slideshow (slides 1 through 8) showing step-by-step how to make and bake Gáhkku bread.
Bread Around the World
http://www.breadculture.net/web/index.php
A list of how to write the word bread in more than 75 languages, and much more!
Teacher Page 1-2b Clay Tablet Map (PDF, 1,012 MB) >>
Reading a Map
http://www.nps.gov/webrangers/medium/tour3/readingmap/index.html
An excellent and brief interactive activity from the National Park Service on how to read a map, with a focus on contour lines and elevation. Highly recommended.
Carta Marina Tour
http://bell.lib.umn.edu/map/OLAUS/indexo.html
Visit the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota, the home of the Olaus Magnus map. View detailed map information and explore a great virtual tour. Or order a copy of this beautiful map!
Sea monsters at National Geographic
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0512/feature3/zoomify/index.html
Olaus Magnus' map is renowned for its whimsical colorful sea monsters depicting such animals as the walrus! An interactive map feature allows zoom and navigation on the map in great detail, though it might be harder to get a view of the map as a whole.
Teacher Notes 1-3 Carta Marina Section B Map 1 (PDF, 2 MB) >>
A Place in Many Scales
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0302/es0302page01.cfm
A series of six images begins at a scale that covers the whole earth and ends at a scale showing a city block that includes the Capitol building in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Each image shows features ten times larger than in the previous image. The images were generated using data from several satellites.
Many Representations of a Single Place
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0304/es0304page01.cfm
Mount Shasta, a volcano in California, is presented in a satellite image, shaded relief map, lava flow view, geologic map, elevation view, 3-D topographic map, 3-D view of geology and topography, and 3-D fly-through.
Visible Earth
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
An incredible catalog of NASA images and animations of Earth.
KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAND
Teacher Page 1-4b Tents and Arches. Graphics 1-6 (PDF, 1.2 MB) >>
Student Page 1-4a Home Sweet Home (PDF, 320 KB) >>
Shapes Lab
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/lab/shapes.html
From PBS, a great easy-to-use interactive lab to explore how the shape of a structure affects how strong it is, be it rectangles, arches, or triangles-the most common shapes used to build structures!
Triangles and Arches in Architecture
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/phy03/sci/phys/mfe/triarch/assets/phy03_img_triarch/phy03_img_triarch_swf.html
Flash file with images of structures from the White House to the Eiffel Tower built with arches and triangles.
Arctic Artifacts
http://www.nps.gov/webrangers/medium/tour2/artifact/index.html
Interactive game from the National Park Service showcasing Arctic tools. Illustrates the widespread influence of Arctic designs and techniques.
Teacher Notes 1-5a Wind Map (PDF, 148 KB) >>
Navigation by NASA
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8401438846981087140&q=navigation+nasa&total=108&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=8
A very good, brief movie on navigation from the days of the Vikings including great detail on the North Star. Highly recommended as a tie-in.
The Case of the Disappearing Dark Sky
http://www.nps.gov/webrangers/medium/tour2/darksky/index.html
Interactive game activity from the National Park Service.
Teacher Notes 1-6a Scricfinnia (PDF, 88KB) >>
Teacher Notes 1-6b Shoes, Bindings, and Skis Graphics 1-5 (PDF, 1.3 MB) >>
Listen to Peary
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/vopeary.ram
In this audio recording, Robert E. Peary describes planting the American flag at the North Pole, 1909.
Russia/North Pole
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1601492944205001776
BBC News segment describing how Russian plants their flag under North Pole. The
Mir-I is one of two Russian craft that dived to the Arctic floor.
Russian explorers have planted their country’s flag on the seabed
4,200m (14,000ft) below the North Pole to further Moscow’s claims
to the Arctic.
CASE STUDY: FACT FINDER
Make-a-Flake
http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/
Cut a snowflake in a online environment, save it to your computer, or email it!
Let it Snow
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/environment/story2/snowflakeframes.htm
Meet Eric Erbe and learn how scientists take images of snowflakes.
2006 Holiday Snow Flake Stamps
http://www.usps.com/communications/news/stamps/2006/sr06_045.htm
Check out the four 39-cent stamps featuring photographs of snowflakes from the U.S. Postal Service.
Match the Flakes
http://snowflakebentley.com/match.htm
Reveal the flakes and match them up in this quick online game.
U.S. Snow Information Map
http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/interactive/html/map.html
As a class or in teams, go to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) interactive US Snow Information Map. Locate your state and zoom in on your particular area. In the upper left corner, select physical environment: Snow Depth. Compare student results and discuss variables and the fact that the measurements illustrated on the map are images of data obtained from satellites.
World Snow Information Map
http://www.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/emb/snow/HTML/multisensor_global_snow_ice.html
Classrooms in countries outside of the United States, use the World Snow Information Map.
U.S. and Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover
http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nh_snowcover/
Daily snow cover maps developed from satellite images for the United States and Northern Hemisphere. Make sure to check out the interactive maps, very cool!
NOAA Storm Watch
http://www.noaawatch.gov/
Watch for snowstorms and be ready to collect your snowflakes!
Frizion
http://frizion.com
Incredible snowflake art by one of our Cool Scientists from NASA, Dr. Peter Wasilewski. Watch the movie that explains the science: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa15rDbOSSc
The GoNorth! Program
http://www.PolarHusky.com
On the entry page read "What Is GoNorth!" and "Mission." 
Sami Observations (Chapter 3. Changing Arctic: Indigenous Perspective)
GoNorth! Cool Scientists Henry Huntington & Shari Gerhardt authored a chapter in the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) report in 2005 which featured local observations from Sápmi of climate change based on the traditional knowledge of the hunters and reindeer herders.
NASA Database
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data/
Collect station data for Sápmi!
Collect Station Data for Your Community
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/cag3.html
Now it is time for you to share: What's climate change to you?
If you are in the United States, instead of using the NASA resource for your climate data, you can use data from the National Climate Data Center.
EALÁT
http://www.ip-ipy.org/photo_galleries/cms/31
In the EALÁT project, the reindeer herders take measurements of snow temperature and observe the year-to-year changes. Nancy Maynard combines that information with satellite data to create a real-time record of climate change in the Norwegian Arctic.
Weather Versus Climate
http://www.eo.ucar.edu/basics/index.html
Straightforward explanations from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
Traditional Knowledge
Learn more about Traditional Knowledge in the Climate Change section of Investigate at PolarHusky.com.
Greenland Ice Sheet Project
http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/iecws/materials/online_activities/climate_card/pages/page01a.htm
In 1993 the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 finished drilling through the Greenland Ice Sheet from the top to the ground bottom below the glacier.
THINK GLOBAL-ACT LOCAL
Let the world explore your town!
To nominate your community send it straight to the desktop of a National Geographic editor via e-mail to: zip@nationalgeographic.com
Or you can take the snail mail route and send your suggestion to: P.O. Box 96095, Washington, DC 20090-6095
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