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NOVA Resources for At-Home Learning

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<p>Join NOVA on three virtual field trips this month in celebration of Earth Day and Environmental Education Month.</p>

Take a Virtual Field Trip with NOVA Education

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<p>Join scientists on a quest to discover what Earth’s climate was like in the past — and where we might be headed.</p>

Polar Lab

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<p>Consider compelling new evidence that Earth’s climate and the evolution of plant life may have prompted an explosion in the size and diversity of mammals following the massive extinction of the dinosaurs in this video from NOVA: <i>Rise of the Mammals</i>.</p>

How Climate, Plant, and Animal Interactions Drive Evolution

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<p>Visualize the relationship between converging tectonic plates and volcanoes with this video from NOVA <i>The Next Pompeii</i>. </p>

Plate Tectonics and Volcanoes

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<p>Learn about the history of Pluto’s classification as a planet and the discovery of other Kuiper belt objects in this video from NOVA <i>Pluto and Beyond</i>.</p>

Is Pluto a Planet?

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<p>NOVA Education supports STEM education and engagement nationwide through the creation of resources from NOVA&#x27;s broadcast and digital productions.</p>

<p>This video from NOVA <i>Polar Extremes</i> explores the rapid retreat of Jakobshavn Glacier in western Greenland.</p>

The Jakobshavn Glacier

<p>This video from NOVA’s digital series <i>Antarctic Extremes</i> takes viewers along the underside of Erebus Glacier in Antarctica as the Icefin robotic vehicle travels to the point where the glacier meets the sea.</p>

The Erebus Glacier

<p>Join NOVA’s Caitlin Saks and Arlo Pérez at a research base in Antarctica to learn why fish living in the world’s coldest ocean—with water below 32°F—do not freeze in this video from the digital series <i>Antarctic Extremes</i>.</p>

How Antifreeze Proteins Help Antarctic Fish Survive





  
      <div class="rich-text"><p>Online learning resources are more important today than ever before. Now, with help from NOVA’s Polar Lab, educators can give students an immersive, interactive look at Earth and climate science from the safety of their home.</p><p>Despite the growing body of evidence showing the causes and current impacts of climate change and the scientific consensus on how human activity contributes to recent global warming, climate change denialism <a href="https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/">continues to be a problem across the country</a>. If you are a science educator who teaches Earth and climate science, you are bound to hear your students tout misconceptions that they have picked up from politicians, news media, and, in some cases, other science classrooms.</p></div>
  

  
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      <div class="rich-text"><p>To increase student understanding of climate science and Earth’s climate history, NOVA has created the Polar Lab — a web-based game that uses 360 videos, interviews with scientists, and mini-games to send players on an immersive quest to understand how the poles are key to understanding Earth’s climate.</p><p>The Polar Lab combines mini-games, clickable 360 landscapes, videos, and animations to take players onto the ice and into the laboratory in search of evidence to answer big questions about Earth’s climate—past, present, and future. The Polar Lab puts students in the driver’s seat as they work with host Caitlin at “Polar Lab HQ” to collect data from the field, answer questions about Earth’s climate past, and play mini-games, moving through the story in three missions that happen across the globe.</p><p>Beyond the game, NOVA has developed the <a href="https://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/polar-lab/">Polar Lab collection on PBS LearningMedia</a>, a collection that includes resources for integrating the Polar Lab into your climate change lessons. In this collection, you’ll find a lesson plan with suggestions for developing a teaching unit using the Polar Lab, several extension activities for additional assessment of student knowledge and skills, and a technical guide for navigating through the game. In addition, there are also several video resources that address the learning goals of the Polar Lab and include support materials for facilitating class discussions about the research findings featured throughout the game.</p></div>
  

  
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      <div class="rich-text"><h3><b>NOVA Polar Lab</b></h3><p>Launch the Polar Lab to get started: <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/polar/">https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/polar/</a></p><p></p><h3><b>NOVA Polar Lab Collection</b></h3><p>Before you use the Polar Lab with your students, review our lesson plan for an overview of the disciplinary content and practices covered in the game, including NGSS performance expectations. You’ll also find teaching tips with discussion questions that address learning goals throughout the game: <a href="https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/polar-lab/">https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/polar-lab/</a></p><p></p><h3><b>NOVA Antarctic Extremes</b></h3><p>Follow NOVA’s Caitlin and Arlo as they explore how science is done on the 7th continent, Antarctica! Watch as Caitlin and Arlo discover what it’s like to live in the coldest place on the planet, meet baby seals (also featured in the Polar Lab!), and find out where all the poop in Antarctica goes. The 10-episode digital series is available on Youtube: <a href="http://youtube.com/pbsterra">youtube.com/pbsterra</a></p><p></p><h3><b>NOVA Polar Extremes</b></h3><p>Supplement the content of the Polar Lab with NOVA’s film on the climate science of Earth’s poles. Kirk Johnson, the Sant Director of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, takes you on a journey from deep time to the present, from Antarctica to Greenland, as he uncovers clues that tell us about the dynamic history—and future—of Earth’s climate: <a href="/pages/videopages/polar-extremes/">pbs.org/polarextremes</a></p><p></p><p>Have questions about these resources or suggestions for additional resources we should add to the collection? Let us know at <a href="mailto:novalabs@wgbh.org">novalabs@wgbh.org</a>.</p></div>
  

  
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<p>Online, interactive resources for teaching climate science and climate change to middle and high school students</p>

Bring Climate Science to the Digital Classroom with the Polar Lab

<p>Explore the challenges and constraints of making reusable rockets in this video from NOVA <i>Rise of the Rockets</i>. </p>

The Challenge of Making a Reusable Rocket

<p>Learn about the forces involved in launching rockets and the fuel used to generate them in this media gallery from NOVA <i>Rise of the Rockets</i>. </p>

Generating the Force to Propel Rockets

<p>Learn about the creative and destructive forces at work, both in the past and at present, on Hawaii’s volcanic island chain in these videos from NOVA <i>Kilauea: Hawaii on Fire</i>.</p>

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