Polar climate is also the starting point for the school activity theme "Ice and snow," where students and our staff talk about living conditions today and tomorrow for animals and humans in the Arctic, with emphasis on climate change. We discuss with the students how it is possible to predict the impact on man and nature these changes may cause.

We look at an ice core from a glacier and discuss how it is possible to decide the amount of carbon dioxide hundreds or thousand years from now from the air bubbles inside the ice core. We gather inside a Lapp cot and discuss the changing conditions for the reindeer keeping in northern Sweden now and in the future, both economical, social and ecological. There is also a possibility of building an igloo from pre made plastic blocks and inside the igloo discuss whether it will be possible to build igloos in Sweden and elsewhere in the future.

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Contact Sten Ljungström: sten.ljungstrom@universeum.se

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