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How can speakers of endangered languages protect their mother tongues from dying? And does modern technology help preserve disappearing speech?

"Online materials about Alaska Native history, education. languages, and culture"

from Dave Carlson via Polar Educators International: "I wrote this summary of recent polar research (http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi%3A10.1007%2Fs12665-012-2185-y) with Polar Educators in mind: urgent topics, clear language (I hope) and, negotiated with Springer, open access. And they let me include some pictures! Check the summary paragraph first if you have limited time."

A remarkable site that has wonderful video podcasts from 'real' polar scientists talking in 'real' language to 'real' people. If the live tour comes near you, it is worth seeing - at the very least read the bios of the people involved. It's another insight to polar studies.

Go North! follows a dog sledding team across the arctic. It is a full curriculum unit (reading any Jack London in Language Arts class?)

polar science curriculum resources

This site is no longer active, and unfortunately some sections were never completed. However, it has some good graphics and language that are especially usable with upper elementary students. There are some data sets that could be the basis for classroom analysis.

Older sites, still useful

older sites, still useful

"The Web Site edition of Iñupiat Eskimo Dictionary has been revised to reflect the most current changes made to the Iñupiat spelling system since the 1970 edition. Those changes include replacing the k (with a dot underneath) to the letter q representing the sound farther back in the throat than k or g. Although many changes were needed in the postbases section, only those changes that could be fixed easily were done rather than revising the entire section. The postbase section was, for that reason, left in its original form with only a few changes made. "