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Antarctica’s Climate Secrets

KUON-TV

Lincoln, Nebraska

$87,500

Nebraska ETV (NET) will create digital learning resources that explore interconnections between global earth systems influenced by Antarctica. These new climate-related digital media resources for sixth- through eighth-grade students will increase student knowledge of the following: the effect of Earth’s geosystems on global climate; the contributions of Antarctic research to global processes; and the connections between geosciences research, Earth systems, climate research, and the impact of Antarctica. NET will produce video, interactives, and animations focusing on Antarctica’s climate history, ice sheets, ice shelves and sea ice, and rock cores. The project supplements ANDRILL, a National Science Foundation–funded Antarctic drilling initiative at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. This grant supports middle school earth sciences curricula for grades four through eight. Its content will be distributed through station education portals as well as through PBS’s proposed Digital Learning Library (formerly EDCAR).

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