Visit the Kobuk Kids Greenhouse Weather Information
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How are water, climate, and energy important to communities in the Kobuk River Watershed?
- How does the weather impact streams and rivers near Ambler, Shungnak, and Kobuk?
- Can weather information help you know:
- When to pick berries?
- When to go hunting?
- How to dress for the nearby basketball game?
- Can stream and river information help you know:
- When to place your nets out?
- When a barge can make it up river?
- Current Ice conditions?
- How would native knowledge and understanding better help understand local streams and rivers?
- Will climate change impact local streams and rivers? How can both people and nature adapt?
- How would hydropower save your school funds?
- How would hydropower save your community funds?
- How would hydropower impact you?
Play the below puzzles to learn more both about hydrology, weather, water and the Inupiaq language
- Water Resources and Cosmos Hills - Puzzle #1, PDF File
- Need the answers? Find them under station information for the creek named after the hills
- Need help with Inupiaq Terms? see Alaskool.Orgs' online Inupiaq Dictionary
- Need a way to travel downriver in the winter? Learn from the past, from Alaskool.Org
- Water Resources and Cosmos Hills - Hydrology and Weather Puzzle #2, PDF File
- Need the answers? Find them under station information for the creek flowing along the road to Bornite
- Need help with Inupiaq Terms? see Alaskool.Orgs' online Inupiaq Dictionary
Resource Links
- USGS Education Resources
- EPA Teacher Resources for Water
- North American Association for Environmental Education - Water Activities
- Water Cycle - Drippy the Water Drop
- ADNR Office of Boating Safety "Kids Don't Float!" Safety Program
- Engineering Toolbox - Environment
- Sites using Unidata Weather and Climate data
- Hydro Research Foundation - Education
- Foundation for Energy and Water Education
- US Energy Information Administration - Hydropower
- Touchstone Energy Education - Renewable Energy Lesson Plan
- There is a lot of other good energy education resources here
Last updated: 19 October 2011