First-Rate Resources For Teaching Polar Science

First-Rate Resources For Teaching Polar Science
By Michael Doig on Sunday, February 10, 2008

For the last few years, there has been an increasing awareness about global warming. Movies like An Inconvenient Truth, The 11th Hour and Antarctica: The Global Warning have brought the public face to face with climate change and the polar regions of our planet. Only a privileged few have had the pleasure of visiting the poles, but that doesn’t make teaching about them any less important. The polar ice is beautiful, mysterious and vital to our existence on this planet. The following time-lapse movie shows the Arctic Ocean’s seasonal sea ice retreat in 2007.

Click the link below for the movie.