Journey to the Antarctic
This month’s Free Resource is a journey for Elementary and high school science teachers and their students to the Antarctic with Louise Huffman, a 2002 Golden Apple Fellow. Representative of the Science Inquiry method developed and supported by Golden Apple teachers, Louise offers three documents for teachers to use in their classrooms: A lesson plan, Penguin Family Reunion, an accompanying handout, Penguin Family Reunion Patterns, and a helpful list of websites, ANDRILL weblinks.
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Louise Huffman retired from 34 years of public school teaching before taking on the role of ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) Coordinator of Education and Public Outreach at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her bachelor’s degree in elementary education and special education from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and her master’s degree from Northern Illinois University. Besides teaching children, Louise has worked with the Golden Apple Foundation teaching workshops on science inquiry for teachers. She serves as an adjunct faculty member at Benedictine University in Lisle, IL. She is a Fellow in the Golden Apple Academy, and besides winning the prestigious Golden Apple Award in 2002, she was twice recognized for Excellence in Teaching by the Illinois Science Teachers Association. She is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who Among American Women, Who’s Who in the World, and Who’s Who Among America’s Educators.
In the 2002-03 Antarctic research season, Louise was a TEA (Teacher Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic) on the “Stream Team” in the Dry Valleys. She also spent the 2007 Antarctic research season at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, coordinating the ANDRILL ARISE (ANDRILL Research Immersion for Science Educators) program. Currently, besides her fulltime position with ANDRILL, she serves as the Chair of the Formal Education Subcommittee of the IPY (International Polar Year www.ipy.org) Education and Outreach Committee in Cambridge, England, and the Chair of Theme 6 of the IPY Oslo Science Conference (www. http://www.ipy-osc.no/article/2009/1245943735.35) .