The Arctic Ocean Curriculum Unit was created by the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) with funding from the North Pacific Research Board.
The curriculum has a total of 18 lessons 18 lessons broken into two main components. The first component focuses on the physical sciences, emphasizing seasons, climate, salinity, temperature, currents, and density. The second component focuses on biological sciences emphasizing life cycles, predator-prey relationships, food sources, and survival.
Easy to adapt, these updated lessons feature the use of recent data, and support Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and polar and ocean literacy principles, and encourage cultural relevancy.