About the Flakes, Blobs and Bubbles Activity

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Polar Week September 2012 Ice Core Art! Over 700 drawings were compiled to complete this image!
Welcome to the Flakes, Blobs, Bubbles: An Ice Core Art Project webpage! This webpage is part of the ongoing International Polar Week hosted by several amazing polar-related organizations. The activity currently highlighted was selected by an amazing group of dedicated educators. After calls for polar-related activities went out to the Polar Educators International (PEI) community, the PEI Polar Week committee chose the Flakes, Blobs and Bubbles activity as the flagship educational activity for the Fall 2012 International Polar Week. Please explore this webpage to learn more. The main goal of this activity is to explore how ice sheets and glaciers form and to learn about why and how scientists study ice. As students learn about ice formation, they will also be creating 'ice' art. Once this art is submitted (in the form of a .jpg or. tiff)  to icecoreart@gmail.com, it will integrated into a global ice core art (see an example photo to the left). This ice core will be a composite of all of the images we receive. So, start exploring and share this activity with everyone you know! Everyone, of all ages and backgrounds, is welcome to submit images. Please see the 'Activity for Download' page to download the activity which provides all of the details needed about how to participate in this global science and art project. To see images that have been submitted before the composite images are released, please see the 'Gallery' section of this webpage.

The ice core art image along with other polar-themed mosaics will be posted no later than September 22nd, the end of the Fall 2012 International Polar Week.

Thank you for participating!
SPECIAL NOTE: Please have images of your drawings submitted by the end of Polar Week on September 22nd, 2012.