The following resources can be used to supplement the existing Will Steger Foundation Curriculum. Resources include links to external sites that contain helpful related information and activities, and clips from the Will Steger Foundation video and audio archives that can be connected with specific lesson plan topics.

Index of Resources (click below to be taken to specific curriculum):

Lesson Plan Grades 3-6	Lesson Plan Grades 6-12	Citizen Climate Grades 9-12	Baffin Island Expedition 2007	Ellesmere Island Expedition 2008

Grades 3-6 Curriculum Resources

Lesson One - Climate Change Pretest

• The opinion-based questions on the pretest come from a Gallup poll found here.

Will Steger Foundation Adventure Learning

• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: At home with the Pitsiulak family.
• Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Make a Difference.

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Lesson Two – What is Climate Change?

• Regionally specific reports on the effects of climate change available at the Union of Concerned Scientist's website and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

Will Steger Foundation Adventure Learning

• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: A closer look at Lukie.
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: A Conversation with Jessieloosie.
• Baffin Island Expedition: Earth Day (video)
• Baffin Island Expedition: Glacier Loss (video)
• Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Ayles Ice Shelf.

Lesson Three – Climate Change Action

• Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Track Environmental Bills in Congress

Will Steger Foundation Adventure Learning

• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Pondering our Legacy
• Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Homebound
• Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Electricity from the sun

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Lesson Four – Climate Change in the Media

• International Reading Assoc: Can you convince me? Developing persuasive writing at ReadWriteThink.org.

Will Steger Foundation Adventure Learning

• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: A Conversation with Theo
• Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Make a Difference

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Lesson Plan Five – Communicating About Climate Change

Will Steger Foundation Adventure Learning

• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Qik Kids Speak Out Against Global Warming
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Clyde river students love their land
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Quluaq School Plans for Earth Day
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Students in Iglulik say "Respect Our Earth!"
• Baffin Island Expedition: Earth Day (video)

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Grades 3-6 Lesson PowerPoint Presentation

• Climate Change Presentation - Lesson 2: Download (ZIP - Size 6.7MB)
• Climate Change Presentation - Lesson 3: Download (ZIP - Size 3.2MB)
• Climate Change Presentation - Lesson 4: Download (ZIP - Size 4.2MB)
• Climate Change Quiz Bowl Final: Download (ZIP - Size 720KB)

** Download the entire package here (ZIP - Size 14.8MB).

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Grades 6-12

Lesson One – Our Unique Atmosphere

• Environmental Potection Agency (EPA): What is GWP?
• NASA: Today From Space: The Earth's Atmosphere: Near Real-Time Research Imagery

• Arctic Community Curriculum - Dr. John S. Kimball – Scientists
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Sunburns

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Lesson Two – Emissions of Heat Trapping Gasses

• Environmental Potection Agency (EPA): Greenhouse gas calculator
• 20 Simple Steps to Reduce Global Warming
• Environmental Potection Agency (EPA): Convert heat trapping gas emissions to more-easily conceptualized quantities at the U.S. EPA website
• NASA Climate Time Machine

• Low-carbon lifestyle
• MN Energy Challenge
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Jessieloosie
• Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Adam Ayles
• Larsen Ice Shelf: Glacier Melt (audio)

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Lesson Three - Communities of Living Things

• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: A conversation with Theo
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Qujannanmiik (Thank You) Qikiqtarjuag
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Polar Bears and Arctic Hares
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Lemmings
• Baffin Island Expedition: Earth Day (video)
• Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Polar Bears!
• Larsen Ice Shelf: Krill
• Larsen Ice Shelf: Glacier Melt (audio)
• Arctic Community Curriculum

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Lesson Four - Implications of a Warming Arctic

• NASA Scientific Visualization Studio - This is a conceptual animation showing how polar ice reflects light from the sun. As this ice begins to melt, less sunlight gets reflected into space. It is instead absorbed into the oceans and land, raising the overall temperature, and fueling further melting.

Will Steger Foundation Adventure Learning

• Baffin Island Expedition: Glacier Loss (video)
• Baffin Island Expedition: Earth Day (video)
• Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Expedition Travels Through Arctic Ocean Ruins
• Larsen Ice Shelf: Antarctic Ocean, January 7th, 2008 (audio)
• Larsen Ice Shelf: January 10th, 2008 (audio)
• Larsen Ice Shelf: Global Tourism (audio)
• Arctic Community Curriculum: Martin Jakobsson – Scientists

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Lesson Five – Regional Effects of Global Warming

• Climate.org, a project of the Climate Institute
• Climate Change Effect on Agriculture and Food Supply

Will Steger Foundation Adventure Learning

• Larsen: B-15: An iceberg the size of Connecticut
• Larsen Ice Shelf: Glacier Melt (audio)
• Larsen Ice Shelf: Antarctic Ocean, January 7th, 2008 (audio)
• Larsen Ice Shelf: January 10th, 2008 (audio)
• Larsen Ice Shelf: Global Tourism (audio)

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Lesson Six – What Now?

• Play the Wedge Game
• Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Track Environmental Bills in Congress

Will Steger Foundation Adventure Learning

• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Pondering our Legacy
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Reflecting on the Expedition
• Baffin Island Expedition: Earth Day (video)
• Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Homebound
• Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Electricity from the Sun
• Ellesmere Island Expedition Dispatch: Heading South

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Additional Suggested Activities

• Disappearing Snow - Carbon-Info: The Albedo Effect

Inuit Culture Links:

• Center for International Environmental Law:
  • ICC Petition - 7, Dec 2005
  • The Inuit Case
  • Climate Change and Arctic Impacts
  • Climate Change Publications
• National Public Radio (NPR): Inuit Group Confronts Global Warming Threat (audio)

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Citizen Climate Curriculum

Lesson One – The Carbon Cycle

Videos

• Expedition Copenhagen Introduction
• Expedition Copenhagen Reflection
• Al Gore on Arctic Ice at Cop15

Blog Posts

• Urgent to act now in Copenhagen, say Midwest leaders
• One degree really does matter
• Will talks about the Canadian Arctic
• Ocean Acidification

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Lesson Two - Climate Targets

Videos

• AOSIS at COP 15
• Kenyan and U.S. Youth Delegation Discuss Climate Change
• Al Gore on Arctic Ice at Cop15

Blog Posts

• One degree really does matter
• Will talks about the Canadian Arctic
• Framing Week 2 at COP15
• The World Wants a Real Deal
• Highlights from Opening Day at COP15
• EDITORIAL: Call for Global Action

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Lesson Three - New Technologies

Videos

• John Kerry Address
• Expedition Copenhagen- Liana Balinsky Baker
• Expedition Copenhagen- Maia Dedrick Bio

Blog Posts

• Adapting to a Changing World
• Helping Guatemala in Copenhagen
• Cow Power! How the U.S. Can Decrease GHG Emissions by Using Cows
• Urgent to act now in Copenhagen, say Midwest leaders
• New announcement from Secretary Chu
• How do we feed the world without destroying it?

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Lesson Four - Stabilizing Emissions

Videos

• Iowa delegate Holly Jones meets w/Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack

Blog Posts

• Is Your Mayor in Copenhagen?
• Framing Week 2 at COP15
• EDITORIAL: Call for Global Action
• 350 Sioux Falls, SD

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Lesson Five - Carbon Cap and Trade

Videos

• Oxfam 1 Sky MPL

Blog Posts

• Framing Week 2 at COP15

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Lesson Six - Carbon Tax

Videos

• AOSIS at COP 15
• Expedition Copenhagen- Liana Balinsky Baker

Blog Posts

• In Copenhagen, one skier wants to save our snow
• Framing Week 2 at COP15

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Lesson Seven - International Climate Negotiations

Videos

• US China Press Conference COP 15
• AOSIS at COP 15
• Kenyan and U.S. Youth Delegation Discuss Climate Change
• John Kerry Address

Blog Posts

• We want YOU for strong US climate legislation
• Thoughts on the COP 15 Summit in Copenhagen
• Notes from Copenhagen
• In Copenhagen...
• Will talks about the Canadian Arctic
• The Real Story of the Youth Climate Movement
• Framing Week 2 at COP15
• Why the walkout?
• Youth hear from top U.N. officials
• EDITORIAL: Call for Global Action
• The Power of Broad Representation - Locally and Abroad

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Lesson Eight - Writing a Position Statement

Videos

• Expedition Copenhagen Present to Danish Institute for Study Abroad
• Kenyan and U.S. Youth Delegation Discuss Climate Change
• COP15 WSF & DC School Teleconference
• John Kerry Address
• Steger at Bellona
• Expedition Copenhagen Appeal

Blog Posts

• UN Climate Change Summit Take 15 And....Action
• We want YOU for strong US climate legislation
• What now?
• Frustration and Determination: meeting with negotiators Jonathan Pershing and Todd Ste...
• Initial Reactions and Reflections from Week One
• The Second Week Opens
• The Real Story of the Youth Climate Movement
• 5 Things I Learned About Youth
• R to the Evolution
• Voices from Illinois students

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Baffin Island Expedition 2007

Trail Dispatches

• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: At home with the Pitsiulak family.
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: A closer look at Lukie.
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: A Conversation with Jessieloosie.
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Pondering our Legacy
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: A Conversation with Theo
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Qik Kids Speak Out Against Global Warming
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Clyde river students love their land
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Quluaq School Plans for Earth Day
• Baffin Island Expedition Dispatch: Students in Iglulik say "Respect Our Earth!"

Expedition Videos

• Baffin Island Expedition: Earth Day (video)
• Baffin Island Expedition: Glacier Loss (video)

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Ellesmere Island Expedition 2008

Expedition Team

• Ben Horton
  • Video Interview - Steger Homestead, Ely, MN - October 2007
  • Check out: www.benhorton.com & Ben's Blogspot page to learn more about Ben.
• Sarah
  • Video Interview - Steger Homestead, Ely, MN - October 2007
  • In 2007, Sarah, along with brother Eric and friend Curtis, crossed Greenland north to south using kites. The expedition website can be found here.
• Eric
  • Video Interview - Steger Homestead, Ely, MN - October 2007
  • Check out the Pittarak Expediton 2007, featuring Eric and Sarah McNair-Landry and Curtis Jones
• Sigrid
  • Video Interview - Steger Homestead, Ely, MN - October 2007
  • Sigrid is currently competing in the Copper Basin 300 Sled Dog Race and in February she will be running the Iditarod.
• Toby
  • Video Interview - Steger Homestead, Ely, MN - October 2007
  • Toby's FaceBook
  • Toby's Blogspot Blog
  • Toby's visit to St. Olaf on blogspot
  • Toby in the news - Northland News

Dispatches

• Ayles Ice Shelf
  • Wikipedia: Visit the following link to read more about Nares and Adam Ayles

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