Published Apr 13, 2023 by Alaska Media, LLC., Steve Keller designer and application developer About 60 eighth-grade students from Utqiaqvik Eben Hopson Middle School walked onto the sea ice to learn about its properties.
The 8th Grade Sea Ice Field Trip — hosted by UIC Science in collaboration with the North Slope Borough School District, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge Hub, the University of Washington, the National Ice Center and other organizations — was a two-day event. On March 30, students went outside close to the football field, split into smaller groups and rotated between four hands-on learning stations. On March 31, they reinforced their learning during lab activities.
"It's a whole day out on the sea ice, the whole day is filled with activities for them," said Bernice Aviuk Oyagak, outreach and engagement manager with UIC Science. "Then the next day, they're going to take what they learned that day in the field, and start looking at everything under microscopes and having more in-depth discussions about it in the labs at the school."
"The objective of the event is to get students in Utqiagvik engaged with some of the sea ice work that's being conducted there," Dilliplaine said. "There are so many scientists who go through the area and really don't engage with the community in any way. So this was an opportunity to say, "Hey, this is what we're doing," but also get the students interested in the science ... and hopefully inspire some students in the area to get involved so it's not all just outsiders coming through every year during the work."
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