Polar Explorer is an iVFT-based learning experience currently in development through which students will learn about permafrost, its importance to the Arctic environment, and how this region is experiencing rapid change due to global climate change.

Scientifically Accurate Landscapes

Immersive 360° Environments

Transdisciplinary Connections

Real-Time Feedback & Adaptive Pathways

Explore the Arctic

Polar Explorer

Polar Explorer will take students deep into thawing permafrost and to the edge of Arctic shorelines to learn about how the region is changing in an immersive, accessible way.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Department of Education
Howard Hughes Medical Institute