5-22-2020 Lower School Deep Dive with Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Falulm Strom

Columbus School for Girls

Taking a Deep Dive with Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Fålulm Strøm, Arctic Explorers during COVID-19

May 22, 2020 Created by Betsy Gugle, Lower School Director

This Week’s Deep Dive: Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Fålulm Strøm

Arctic explorers stranded amid coronavirus lockdowns

By Linda Givetash and Helena Humphrey, NBC News

Step 1: Watch the News Story Arctic Scientists Stranded by Coronavirus Travel Restrictions

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Step 2: Talk Time 1. Why do they say that the arctic is extreme social distancing conditions?

2. When you saw the whaler’s hut, what were your thoughts? How would it feel to live there for 9 months?

3. What qualities do you think are strengths of theirs to adapt to this new way of living?

4. What are some of the things they do to help pass the time each day?

Step 3: Snorkeling-Fact Find Check out the following article: Click Here.

1. Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Fålulm Strøm are co-founders of the Hearts in the Ice polar education campaign. They set off in August to the Svalbard archipelago, located between Norway’s mainland and the North Pole. See if you can find the Svalbard archipelago on the map or globe.

2. Why is it significant that they are a team of two women?

3. What countries are both women from and what is their previous experience?

4. Sorby and Fålulm are described as citizen scientists. What is a citizen scientist?

“Sometimes The Heart Must Lead The Way.” Hilde Fålun Strøm

Step 4: Scuba Diving--Dig deeper Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Fülulm Strøm co-founders of the Hearts in the Ice polar education campaign. Visit their webpage or watch their 5-minute movie trailer to learn more about their campaign.

List three remarkable things you learned by reading the information or watching the short documentary.

1. Fact 1 2. Fact 2 3. Fact 3 Just write! Tell what it would be like to walk in their shoes and live in that part of the world for 9 months? What would be some of the amazing opportunities and what would be the tradeoffs?

Step 5: Share what you’ve learned

If you want to share your thoughts and work on Taking a Deep Dive Padlet, click here.

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