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Permafrost

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Development of permafrost curricula was funded by NSF Award #0731739 under the Circumpolar Science and Outreach Project (CPSPOP).


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Grades K-4

  • Permafrost: Permanently Frozen Ground
  • Walking on Frozen Ground
  • Frost Depth
  • Worming Your Way Through the Soil

Grades 5-8

  • Keep It Active
  • Frost Depth Study
  • Tour of the Frozen Ground
  • Polygons, Pingos and Thermokarst, Oh My!
  • Permafrost
  • Collecting Compost
  • Layering the Soil
  • Soil Permeability

Grades 9-12

  • Features of the Frozen Earth...and Mars
  • Uses of Permafrost
  • Introduction to Permafrost
  • Frost Depth Measurements
  • Growing Plants in a Variety of Soil Conditions
  • Finding Permafrost
  • Measuring Permafrost
  • The Shaping of the Arctic
  • Living in a Frozen Land
  • The Ground was Frozen Then
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Photo: An ACMP student takes thermal ground readings
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