Online Classroom Expedition Underway
GoNorth! Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 2006
For further information, see the GoNorth! website at:
http://www.polarhusky.com/welcomeletter.asp?menuID=0
GoNorth! is a five-year program consisting of online dogsled expeditions
exploring the circumpolar Arctic and offering unique learning
opportunities for K-12 classrooms.
The first of five expeditions, GoNorth! Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
2006, began in February and aims to explore the prospects of oil
exploration and the value of traditional ecological knowledge, as well
as document the realities of arctic climate change. The GoNorth! team,
consisting of 27 Polar Huskies and seven international educators,
scientists, and explorers, is traveling through Alaska to learn from the
Gwiich'n and Inupiat Eskimo (Inuit) people along the trail while
gathering scientific data from the field.
GoNorth! was developed by the College of Education and Human Development
at the University of Minnesota and NOMADS Online Classroom Expeditions
and is partly funded by the Office of Polar Programs at NSF.
Learn how real-time learning adventures create a standards-aligned
curriculum resource for the K-12 classroom, covering science, math,
language arts, and social studies. Register your class and take your
students to the Arctic:
http://www.polarhusky.com/welcomeletter.asp?menuID=0