Polar-Palooza Activities Announcement
K-12 Teachers Climate Change Workshop
Anchorage Museum of History and Art and UA Museum of the North
Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska
Tuesday, 6 May and Saturday, 10 May - Anchorage
Thursday, 8 May and Saturday, 10 May - Fairbanks
For further information and to register, please contact:
John Tyson
Phone: 907-267-2216
Email: john.tyson [at] alaska.gov
In honor of the International Polar Year 2007-2008, a coordinated
campaign of research in polar science, an exciting national educational
tour on global climate change is coming this May to the Anchorage Museum
of History and Art (AMHA) and the University of Alaska Museum of the
North (UAMN). This national tour on climate change, polar science and
our changing planet, called POLAR-PALOOZA, presents polar science and
climate change information in new and engaging ways. The events
associated with POLAR-PALOOZA will include programs for families,
students, teachers and the general public.
POLAR-PALOOZA is teaming up with Project WILD and Project Learning Tree
to offer a K-12 teachers' Climate Change workshop. The workshop will
demystify this complex subject and engage teachers and students to take
action to help find solutions. Educators can take this workshop in
Anchorage or Fairbanks. The workshop will be held at AMHA in Anchorage
from 6-9pm Tuesday, 6 May and 9am-4:30pm Saturday, 10 May. The workshop
at UAMN in Fairbanks will be 4:30-8:00pm Thursday, 8 May and 9am-4:30pm
Saturday, 10 May. Teachers may earn continuing education credit through
the University of Alaska Anchorage on completion of the workshop.
The main event of POLAR-PALOOZA, "Stories from a Changing Planet," a
multimedia presentation, will take place from 7-9pm Monday, 5 May in the
AMHA Auditorium in Anchorage, and from 7-9pm Friday, 9 May at West
Valley High School in Fairbanks (polar science-related activities will
be available the hour prior to the performance in Fairbanks). This
amazing and unusual program combines video footage from the poles with
in-person dramatic presentations from leading polar researchers, arctic
experts and residents affected by global climate change.
For further information about the teacher climate change workshop,
please contact:
John Tyson
Phone: 907-267-2216
Email: john.tyson [at] alaska.gov
For further information about Polar-Palooza, please go to:
http://passporttoknowledge.com/polar-palooza/pp04.php