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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Shivering teacher tells class about climate change By KAREN MATTHEWS,Associated Press Writer AP - Friday, October 31 NEW YORK - Global warming was the topic, but one eighth-grader from Harlem posed a question that his teacher could answer with firsthand knowledge: "Would it be easy for a kid to live in Antarctica?" Science teacher Shakira Petit stamped her feet for warmth in the minus 7-degree weather of her surroundings and shook her head. "There are no children here. It's all scientists," she said during a videoconference Tuesday with her students and others participating in a program sponsored by the New York-based nonprofit Global Nomads Group. Petit, who teaches at the Promise Academy charter school, is spending two months in Antarctica to conduct climate-change research with The Offshore New Harbor Project in Antarctica. She's participating in the research expedition through Global Nomads. Bundled in a hooded parka, boots and gloves, Petit told the students about icebergs and rising sea levels. She also pointed out various features of Antarctica's McMurdo Station, such as supply buildings, trucks with big snow tires and a cross in memory of explorer Robert F. Scott. Among the questions students asked: "What causes shapes and colors in an iceberg?" "How do you judge the age of the ice?" and "How thick is the ice you're standing on?" Petit co-taught the class with Kirsty Tinto, a graduate student from New Zealand. The women are part of a group of researchers seeking to further scientific knowledge of global warming by studying sediments deposited in Antarctica some 34 million years ago when there were dramatic global climate changes. Students from schools in Newark, Del., Davie, Fla., Virginia Beach, Va., and Douglass, Kan., also linked into the videoconference. Terry Culver, executive director of Global Nomads, said 10 schools take part in two weekly video sessions. "Longer term we hope that this program excites people about science either to make it part of their common knowledge or to think of field research science as a career choice," Culver said. Cynthia Knupp, a teacher at Indian Ridge Middle School in Florida, one of the schools in Tuesday's videoconference, said she is a believer. "I can teach in the classroom all the content I have to, but for them to be able to actually see science in the field is amazing," she said. "My kids are thrilled. They think that they are real special because they get to be involved." Gayle Hartigan, the computer resource specialist at Tallwood High School in Virginia Beach, said that in addition to the Antarctica project, Global Nomads' videoconferences have allowed her students to talk to South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and victims of the genocide in Rwanda. "When you just talk about it out of the book it's not as powerful as when you get to talk to the people who are doing it and living it," Hartigan said. Back at Promise Academy, 12-year-old Catherine Casado watched Petit with rapt attention. "We're here videoconferencing with my teacher who's in Antarctica," she said. "And that's kind of amazing." ___ On the Net: Global Nomads Group: http://www.gng.org Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: Climate Change Shivering teacher tells class about climate changeAP - Friday, October 31 Prince Charles calls for joint effort to fight climate changeAFP - Thursday, October 30 Climate change fight 'hurt by cash crisis' says EUAP - Wednesday, October 29 Germany opens first offshore wind farmAFP - Wednesday, October 29 Related Articles: World Obesity blamed for doubling rate of diabetes casesAP - 2 hours 43 minutes ago Congo 'catastrophe' feared as Goma fears the worstAFP - Friday, October 31 US dress-up fest Halloween hit by political correctnessAFP - Friday, October 31 UN chief urges Hezbollah to be political partyAP - Friday, October 31 In UK, head of radio station quits over prank callAP - Friday, October 31 Related Full Coverage climate change climate change All Full Coverage Most Popular – World Viewed When men see red, they see hot: study Asian stocks soar on US Fed rate cut McCain in defiance as Obama boosted by economic data World's fattest man weds friend's widow Desperate pleas end in despair as starlet's nephew found dead View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology

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