What is the winter solstice? Construct your explanation after watching a video of the earth as it orbits the Sun.

In this Quick Bite activity, your students will read about SIMB buoys, watch a video of a buoy installation during the 2019-2020 MOSAiC expedition, and then discuss the structure and function of a buoy. Photo credit: Anne Gold, CIRES/CU Boulder

To claim underwater territory, coastal nations must first understand their nearshore seafloor geology.  In this short activity, your students will examine maps of Arctic Ocean bathymetry and identify continental shelves of the Arctic coastal nations. 

Which countries in the world have icebreakers, and why? Explore these questions and more in this Quick Bite activity. 

Indigenous peoples have over centuries adapted to living in the harsh and rugged Arctic, but their environment is changing rapidly. How are Indigenous peoples' ways of life being threatened by a changing climate? Photo credit: Eric Keto/Alaska's Energy Desk

About 4 million people live in the Arctic, 10-12% of which are Indigenous peoples with a diversity of cultures and ways of life. In this activity, your students will learn more about who lives in the Arctic using information from maps. 

Why does the amount of daylight the Arctic region gets throughout the year vary so much more than regions at lower latitudes? In this Quick Bite activity, students use an online interactive simulation to explore this question. 

There are several ways to define the Arctic region geographically. In this Quick Bite activity, students will explore how a changing climate could change these geographic definitions. 

Looking at how global temperatures have changed over time can give us valuable insight into our planet's health. In this Quick Bite activity, students watch an animation of global temperature anomalies over time to discover that something strange is going on in the Arctic. 

Why is the Arctic so much colder than the equator? What is the role of sunlight in the Arctic climate system? Explore these questions in this Quick Bite activity.