Aarti's Future Lab
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Week 12 · Ice · Coming soon

Polar Protectors

Aarti the aardvark, future-archaeologist, waving hello.

Aarti says

Explorer, today we are counting penguins. It sounds silly. It is actually one of the best ways to listen to an ocean.

This mystery unlocks soon

The animation is still being drawn, and this mystery unlocks soon — but here is the whole story as a narrated storyboard. Press play.

Cracked sea ice; Aarti steadies themself on a floe.Storyboard previewScene 1 of 7

Aarti (voice-over)

Up here the map is melting under the animals' feet.

Aarti (voice-over)

Up here the map is melting under the animals' feet.

Cracked sea ice; Aarti steadies themself on a floe.

The mystery

Aarti follows researchers who count penguins to keep track of a changing sea.

New technology

The colony cam: a camera that counts penguins all winter without disturbing them.

What you'll do

Make a picture chart of an animal you could count near you.

Your turn, Explorer

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