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
Ice-Covered Lakes and Terrestrial Ice

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 -- Ice-Covered Lakes and Terrestrial Ice

• What life exists on or in terrestrial ice?

• What can we learn from microbes found in ancient Antarctic ice?

• How far below ice would we have to look to find microscopic life? How far under the ice can life survive?

• What is Lake Vostok? Describe that environment. What living things have been found in Lake Vostok?

Resources

General
Life On Ice
http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/news_stories/news_detail.cfm?ID=125

Bacteria
Is There Life 3.6 km Below Antarctic Ice?
http://earthsci.org/newsop/news/vostok/vostok.html

Exotic-looking Microbes Turn Up In Ancient Antarctic Ice
http://www.stevequayle.com/High.Jump/
Ancient_Antarctic_Microbes/Exotic.Microbes.html

Antarctic Microbes Could Live On Mars
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s459854.htm

Antarctic Microbes Colonize Under Mars-like Conditions
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article233.html

Protists
Eukaryotes in Extreme Environments
http://www.spaceref.com/redirect.html?
id=0&url=www.nhm.ac.uk/zoology/extreme.html

Diatoms