Please visit the page for the Standing Committee for Education and Outreach for more information on the committees structure and goals. Also, please let us know if you have additional resource suggestions.
Resources for education and outreach on permafrost:
- The popular-press book Permafrost in Our Time, available in English and Russian (“Мерзлота в наше время”)
- A book for high school and college students in Russian on culture and permafrost in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia): Вечная мерзлота и культура
- K12 School-based frost tube activities and community-based permafrost monitoring network. Teachers (in all frost tube countries) can enter their frost tube data to the GLOBE database. The GLOBE program has many additional hands-on STEM activities for non-permafrost regions as well and everyone shares their data
- Koichiro Harada’s Frost Tube website (in Japanese)
- The AASP has Spanish-language activities focused on South American
- "A Frozen-Ground Cartoon" and Permafrost on All Channels website contains comics in more than eight languages, a free Augmented Reality app, and more
- Skype a Scientist connects scientists and classrooms across the world – there are lots of scientists and lots of topics, including permafrost ones
- The EU’s EduArctic website has a variety of lesson plans, videos, and other materials on Arctic and permafrost research focused primarily on K-12 education, including a free Arctic Explorer Game app
- The EU’s INTERACT produced a toolkit on permafrost and glaciers for teachers, including a series of animated videos on permafrost
- Sustainia has an outreach program for students, Arctic Opportunity Explorers
At right: illustration by Heta Nääs made for the Frozen-Ground Cartoon Action Group