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The Polar Literacy Project

Formerly Polar Interdisciplinary Coordinated Education (Polar-ICE)

A program designed to connect scientists, educators, and students using data and research from the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

For many people, the Polar Regions remain distant locations, unconnected to their lives, and far from their daily concern.

This website aims to promote greater polar science literacy by providing an educational framework of concepts and resources to help:

  • Researchers improve the societal impact of their research and
  • Educators to promote teaching and learning about the Polar Regions.

Polar Data Stories

Get your feet wet with polar data, via stories and some cool visualizations.

A classroom participates in a live video call with researchers in Antarctica

2025 Palmer LTER Video Teleconferences

Educators: Join Polar Scientists on a Research Expedition to Palmer Station, Antarctica  We are recruiting 12-18 educators and their students to participate in the 2025 LTER field season in Antarctica! This unique opportunity…

Now Recruiting Educators for Polar STEAM

2025 Polar STEAM Educator Flyer Polar STEAM is recruiting educators for 2025/26 collaborations with polar researchers in creating educational resources about polar regions and science. Applications are open for Arctic and Antarctic deployments…

Data to the Rescue: Exploring Data Literacy Afterschool

March 28, 2024 at Noon ET | 11:00 am CT | 10:00 am MT | 9:00 am PT This virtual workshop will introduce you to Data to the Rescue: Penguins Need Our Help! – a learning experience designed for out-of-school time programs that includes learning…

Bring the Ocean back to school in Fall 2023!

Welcome back educators and students!  Just a few quick reminders for resources you might be interested in as you plan the school year: 1. Order your "Explorers of the Deep" kits today! This STEM focused kit was developed by a team…

I.D. Antarctica 2023 – Week #2 Answer

We’re sorry for the delay in getting you an answer for the mystery fish. The last couple weeks at Palmer Station have been especially hectic!  The fish is a larval white-blooded icefish called Chionodraco rastrospinosus (or…

ReCharge Academy 2023 Professional Development

2023 RECHARGE ACADEMY July 31 – August 3 Stockton University - Atlantic City, NJ LEARN MORE & APPLY TODAY! The 2023 Academy returns our focus to offshore wind energy and wind technology as we return to the East Coast. It will be…

I.D. Antarctica 2023 – Week #2 Mystery Creature

Hello from Palmer Station, Antarctica!  We arrived to Palmer Station just in time to ring in the new year! One of the scientists found a giant rubber buoy floating in the ocean the day before New Years Eve, which is a…

I.D. Antarctica 2023 – Week #1 Answers

Hi everyone! We hope you enjoyed identifying this first round of mystery seabirds and zooplankton.  Mystery Seabird #1 The first sea bird is called a Cape petrel, or Daption capense. This might have been a tough ID because you…

I.D. Antarctica 2023 – Week #1 Mystery Creatures

Hello and welcome to Investigate and Discover (I.D.) Antarctica 2023! We are excited to share our Antarctic experiences and research this year with you all. After some exhausting travel by air and by sea, we arrived in Antarctica on 29…