Students can access woolly mammoth and ice worm study partners if they need help with glacier vocabulary or if they become stumped by a question. Cartoon characters and a theme that fashions students into glacier detectives carry them through Glacier Power activities. World-renowned glaciologists, local scientists, teachers and students, as well as Fairbanks' artists, contributed photographs and drawings found in the text. When I would ask people for input or help and the answer was always 'yes'. Sandberg asked Fairbanks teachers to critique the project throughout each step of the process.
Teachers are very honest people.
The Fairbanks school district helped by providing teachers with the additional release time they needed to review Glacier Power. To gauge the reaction to the prototype, Sandberg demonstrated the materials at education and science conferences. We first presented at an education initiative session of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium in the fall of 1996, where Glacier Power was so well received that people who saw it told the director of the Satellites and Education Conference in Pennsylvania that she had to invite us. At this second conference, the audience consisted almost entirely of teachers and we had a great time. After these positive responses, NASA requested that Glacier Power join a review by professional educators in September 1997.