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
Climate Generation Adventure Learning
- 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
Climate Generation Adventure Learning
- 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 Adventure Learning
- 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 Adventure Learning
- 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 Adventure Learning
- 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 Adventure Learning
- 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
Additional Suggested 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)