Float Your Boat

Our 2022-23, 23-24 and 24-25 5th Grade GATE students participated in "Float your Boat!"  They were given a small cedar wood boat to decorate. (See pictures below) The boats were then sent to a fellow polar educator and she placed them on Arctic Sea Ice 2 miles off the north coast of Alaska near the town of Utqiagvik.   They will drift on the sea ice, break off as an iceberg and eventually drift in the ocean currents.  Those boats are marked with a unique number, a GPS tracker and a web address. The positions of their boats can be tracked in real time here!  (or below) (Ours are the pink 2023 Utqiagvik icon released on 4/4/2023 on the map below.)  THE PICTURE TO THE RIGHT SHOWS POLAR BEAR PRINTS AMONG OUT BOATS!