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Call for Undergraduate Educators to Test Curriculum
Greenland and Glacial Environments
The Polar Space and Place (PolarPASS)

For more information, go to:
https://serc.carleton.edu/polarpass/index.html

The Polar Space and Place (PolarPASS) is seeking undergraduate educators to test their new curriculum designed to bring the polar regions to life in the undergraduate classroom.

The curriculum consists of two modules with four to five units each and combines real polar field data from Greenland with innovative teaching methods to strengthen students' knowledge of polar science and build student connections to polar places. The units contain a series of 360-degree interactive environments, field images, maps, geospatial data, and videos to immerse students in the place and dive into questions about timescales, seasonal and year-to-year change, and interconnected Earth system elements. Students gain geospatial analysis skills through inquiry-based spatial and temporal exercises, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), that use Greenland-specific datasets and support learning about climate, ice, and the landscapes of our planet. The first module supports an exploration of the glacier basin system before diving into long-term spatial transformation of these systems within the second module.

PolarPASS is seeking:

  • Undergraduate college or community college instructors willing to implement the curriculum in 2022/23 academic year; and
  • Instructors interested in bringing virtual experience, GIS, and real data into their classroom.

PolarPASS offers participating instructors:

  • Implementation stipend,
  • Implementation support, and
  • Co-authorship on a publication about the implementation.

For more information, go to:
https://serc.carleton.edu/polarpass/index.html

For questions, contact:
Email: PolarPass [at] Colorado.edu