Become an Archaeologist While Cleaning Your Bedroom!! Fun for you and your room gets clean too!!

A collaborative learning lesson for students in grades 4-8. Students work in teams to summarize assigned chapters of a 16 chapter novel, about the last season of the King Island, Alaska native peoples seen through the eyes of a teenager girl. Project is multi-disciplinary.

Fun art activity recreating a diatom - a main type of phytoplankton found in the Bering Sea.

Search the 2007-2008 PolarTREC expeditions at www.polartrec.com to find the answers to this Polar vocabulary crossword puzzle.

A simple craft activity where students research an Arctic or Antarctic explorer and make index cards with pictures and information about the explorers on them. The cards are then connected by paper clips or string to make a dangling string for each explorer or expedition to be hung around the room.

Students follow PolarTREC expeditions, and create their own journals of scientific discovery along the way.

What do polar researchers do? Explore this question and more with this interesting activity.

Have your students become travel consultants for the polar regions by producing a travel brochure and radio ad highlighting the virtues of the Arctic and the Antarctic.