KSI: Kigluait Sleuth Investigations
A videoconference sleuth is the connecting of students from different locations to solve an environmental mystery based on a common thread amongst the sites that has application to students' real lives. During a videoconference sleuth, students and teachers are working together to solve a mystery. The teachers and head Detective (Kigluait Adventures Staff) will help to provide facts and clues, while the students are using problem-solving skills to put the facts and clues together to solve the mystery. Finally, students will be given time to experiment, research, or seek out interviews with other persons for more clues.
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Sleuth #1: Mystery Lights in the North: Your task as a super sleuther is to determine what the strange mystery lights are and to determine their effects, both positive and negative, on the local fishing. There have been several sightings of strange lights in arctic waters. However, the sightings seem to have begun to become more frequent occurrences and there have been some concerns from communities where the sightings have been made by a wide number of people. Coinciding with these complaints has been a concern for the lack of fishing in the local areas. Program Costs: $300 Non-members (includes membership) or $250 for members
Program Dates: December 8-12 or on demand if you have 2 or more |
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Sleuth 2: The case of the Bubbling Ocean. Twenty-five miles off the coast of Nome, Alaska, there have been many sighted cases of what eyewitness' are calling a bubbling ocean. Many sailors have described it as burps from Davy Jones Locker. Descriptions include intermittent bubbling with both large bubbles and small bubbles. Many persons are concerned that these boiling waters could affect the marine life or damage the beaches where a great deal of Gold Mining occurs. Program Costs: $300 Non-members (includes membership) or $250 for members
Program Dates: November 10-14 or on demand if |
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Sleuth 3: The Bering Sea is one of the most productive regions on earth. For thousand of years, people have relied on its diversity of wealth for food and shelter. From the abundance of seals, for clothing and heating fuel to the mass quantities of salmon for food, many of the people living on its coastlines have found it to be a way of life for all living things. The unique location of the sea straddling the polar and temperate regions of the Earth, can in many ways account for its abundance. However, there have been many documented changes over recent years showing drastic changes in populations and critical physical environments. What could be happening? What could be causing so many changes? Program Costs: $300 Non-members (includes membership) or $250 for members
Program Dates: January 12-16th or on demand if you have 2 or more |
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Sleuth 4: The Case of the Missing Soda Pop. I am so glad you are here, sleuther. We have anxiously been awaiting your arrival to help us solve this mystery. The worst has happened. The pop has gone overboard! Yep, that's right the soda went a float'n. Currently, there is a complaint from the villages that they were short on a shipment of soda pop. Upon checking records, the barge carrying the shipment was checked and certified when loaded on the barge. However, when arriving in the village, there was a portion of the soda shipment that was missing. The sailors on the barge explained that there was a tie-down on the freight that had snapped, and some of the freight went over board. They that they were able to retrieve all of the freight though, as it just floated on the surface. So what happened to the soda pop? Did the sailors drink it? If so, where is the evidence? Program Costs: $300 Non-members (includes membership) or $250 for members
Program Dates: April 6-10 or on demand if you have 2 or more participating |
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Sleuth 5: The Case of the Mysterious Missing Blueberry Patches. The berries are going away! Feasts won't be the same again! What could be going on? Help us! We have to fix this! For many of the villages in Alaska, the Blueberry plants and Salmonberry plants, are a source of traditional food that are picked every summer. Many folks make Eskimo Ice-Cream with the berries, or store them between sugar layers in 5 gallon buckets. What could be happening to the berry patches? Will the berries come back, or are they gone forever? Is there something happening to the tundra? What could cause them to produce less and less berries? Program Costs: $300 Non-members (includes membership) or $250 for members
Program Dates: April 27-May 1 or on demand if you have 2 |
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Also Available in 1 day VTC Mini-Sleuth Versions: Roamer, Roamer: The rocket launched to explore other planets has crash landed, students must determine the topography and location by controlling the robot, “roamer, roamer.” Program Costs: $300 Non-members (includes membership) or $250 for members Program Dates: On Demand |
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Also Available in 1 day VTC Mini-Sleuth Version The Case of the Horse-Gobbling-Eel-Like-Lake-Monster: What is eating the horses by the lake. 1 local says it is a lake monster, but the scientist says that it could not be possible based on her scientific data and measurements. What could it be? Program Costs: $125 Non-members (includes membership) or $100 for members Program Dates: On Demand |
