Celebrate International Polar Day on March 12, 2008

Here’s an opportunity for you and your students to share your study of the polar regions with other classrooms and the world-wide community.

Every three months, the International Polar Year (IPY) organization sponsors a day of events to highlight polar research and increase public awareness. March 12 is the next scheduled International Polar Day. Its theme is Changing Earth, Past, Present, and Future, with the focus on glacial and interglacial periods of the past million years and cycles of ocean-atmosphere interactions.

In advance of the day, IPY will provide a web page with background information on the featured science for teachers, classroom activities, links to live calls with researchers, and online events. In addition, press releases and multilingual flyers are available.