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National Council for Social Studies
states:
"The skills that should be promoted in an excellent
social studies program include the following:
- Acquiring information and acquiring data
- Developing and presenting policies, arguments and
stories
- Constructing new knowledge
- Participating in groups
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Arctic
Blast provides:
- Primary sources and unfiltered data
- Real life stories, dilemmas, and issues
- Opportunities for new understandings of mysterious and
unfamiliar places and people
Collaboration with expedition members, expert, and other
students from North America and around the world
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The
National Geography Standards recommend skill development in
the following areas:
- Asking geographic questions
- Acquiring geographic information
- Organizing geographic information
- Analyzing geographic information
- Answering geographic questions
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Arctic
Blast encourages students:
- To ask many geographical questions from ecological and
spatial perspectives, such as
"How are people able to survive in such a harsh
climate?"
To answer these questions by acquiring, organizing, and
analyzing geographic information from a variety of primary
and secondary sources found on the Internet
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The
National Council for Teaching of Mathematics
suggests that the following receive increased attention:
- Pursuing open-ended problems and extended
problem-solving projects
- Investigating and formulating questions from problem
situations
Applying mathematics |
The
Arctic Blast math activities include:
Countless real-life situations which require students to
predict, estimate, collect data, analyze data, compute,
and solve problems
Opportunities for formulating a wide array of
mathematical questions such as, "How long will the
expedition take if they continue traveling at this
rate?"
Opportunities for students to understand and apply
mathematics in real life situations such as converting
weights, measures, and currency
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In
Benchmark for Science Literacy, the American association for
the Advancement of Science states that:
- Students should "be actively involved in
exploring phenomena that interest them both in and out
of class"
- Students should look for "similarities and
differences among the things they collect and examine
"Student investigations ought to constitute a
significant part -–but only a part – of the total
science experience…even though the main purpose of
students learn how science works, it is important to back up
such experience with selected readings"
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The
Arctic Blast science activities include:
- Taking students on an exciting virtual field trip to
the Arctic to conduct scientific explorations
- Collaborative online projects where students around
North America and the world can analyze the similarities
and differences found within much larger and more
diverse data samples;
Connecting students to primary and real life sources,
which have more immediacy and relevancy than relying solely
on textbooks and encyclopedias.
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