Simulation

Simulation

Procedures for Using the Simulation

Introductory Activity

Developing a Definition/Freewrite

Citing Electronic Sources MLA Style

Research Summaries

Pre-Interview Conference Sheet

Post-Interview Conference Sheet

Student Worksheet to Write the Debate / Discussion Position Notes

Final Evaluation of Antarctica: 90 Degrees South

Fact-Finding Teams

Collaboration

Fact-Finding Team
Convergence Zone

The mission of your group is to

1. Find the answers to the questions listed below.You may use books, periodical resources, the Internet or the Antarctica: 90 Degrees South video titled I Thought Penguins Could Fly about the biology and ecology of the continent.

2. Make a presentation of your findings to the class. You may use whatever media you choose for your presentation. Think about how YOU learn best.

3. Make a handout of the important findings of your group to distribute to the rest of the class.Be sure to cite your sources.

Questions -- Convergence Zone

• Considering the cold water surrounding Antarctica with its own ecosystem and the warmer water of the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with its own ecosystem, what will happen when the cold and warm waters meet?

• For your fact sheet, draw or diagram the meeting of these waters and the currents that grow out of it.

Resources

Antarctic winds vital to global sea life
http://usatoday.com/weather/resources/coldscience/sun/
2001-01-30-katabatic-winds.htm

Oceanography
http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/science/
oceanography.shtml

Antarctic Convergence
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~mmcooper/classes/convergence.html

Antarctic Convergence (Shows Map)
http://carto.eu.org/article2436.html