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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica: What Is Distance?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Help curious Matt find out everything there is to know about determining distances.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica: Penguins: What Is Motion?

For Students 3rd - 5th
What do you know about Emperor penguins? Ernie is researching them and their migration across the continent.
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Activity
Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Gulf of Maine Aquarium: Antarctica: Creating Plankton

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A mini-lesson on plankton. After going over the characteristics of plankton, print out the worksheet and have students create there own plankton. A fun project to end a great unit.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica/ What Are the Different Parts of the Universe?

For Students 4th - 6th
In this lesson, students learn about objects in the universe, including constellations, planets, meteors, asteroids, and comets.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Antarctica Penguins: How Does the Moon Influence the Tide?

For Students 4th - 6th
This lesson explains how the moon affects tides on Earth and about the different types of tides.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Antarctica: Penguins: What Are the Different Aspects of the Weather?

For Students 5th - 7th
For this lesson, students learn about the different types of weather and the factors that impact them, including air pressure, humidity, sun and wind.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica: Which Types of Sounds Do You Know?

For Students K - 1st
For this lesson, students learn about the five senses, identify objects that make sound, and take a fun fact quiz at the end.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica: When Were Cells First Discovered?

For Students 3rd - 4th
Students learn about the parts of a cell and how they were first discovered. Includes a fun fact quiz at the end.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica Research Center: What Do Cells Do?

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this lesson, students learn about the specialization of cells to perform different functions, and how they are organized into tissues and organs in the human body.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Antarctica Fishing Boat: Where Do Sounds Come From?

For Students K - 1st
In this lesson, students explore where sounds come from and the different sounds that animals make.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica: How Are Living Things Described?

For Students 3rd - 6th
Learn about the different levels of organization in living things, from cells to organisms.
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Read Works

Read Works: Stuck in the Icy Ocean by Kate Paixao

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is about Ernest Shackleton's expedition to Antarctica, the problems he faced, and how he solved them. A comprehension question set and vocabulary information for the words courage, rescue,...
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Activity
Penguin Science

Penguin Science: Penguins Marching Into the Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow Adelie Penguin families as they raise their chicks. Daily pictures (November through January) from the penguin colony on Ross Island, Antarctica. are posted with data for students to keep a field journal. Inquiry classroom...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic Time Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video, Lee Hotz describes research into greenhouse gas emissions and global climate change taking place at the South Pole in Antarctica. [9:46] Includes a brief quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
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Other

El Tren Del Fin Del Mundo

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish content; learn about the farthest south region of the world in Argentina which is presented via the story of a prison i the region and the supply railway that was created for it's purpose. See how the rail is not a tourist...
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Other

Antarctic E Mail Social Studies Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Why would you ever want to go to Antarctica? This lesson plan allows the pupils to imagine what life would be like at the bottom of the earth. The teacher can then e-mail the South Pole Observatory for answers to their questions.
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Online Learning Haven

The Antarctic Climate and Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
If you've ever wondered about the climate of Antarctica, this site is the place to find it.
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Antarctica Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
This NASA image shows the temperature trend in Antarctica between 1957 and 2006.
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Website
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: The Endurance

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated voyage to Antarctica aboard the "Endurance" and about the amazing rescue that followed, after the expedition was forced to abandon ship. Uses actual expedition photographs and diary entries to...
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Curated OER

Extreme Science: Antarctica Snow Bluff

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A huge bluff of snow and ice in the Antarctica. [Photo]
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Curated OER

The Antarctic Sun: Antarctica Landscape

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Photograph of Antarctica.
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Article
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists: Antarctic Whales

For Students 9th - 10th
An article featuring the whales that inhabit the waters of Antarctica and what the future holds for them.
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Article
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Ice Stories: Dry Valleys

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn about the work and research done in Antarctica's most arid regions know as the Dry Valleys.
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Article
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Polar Discovery: Live From the Poles: Exp 3: The Penguins and Lava Flows

For Students 9th - 10th
Travel on an expedition to Antarctica to see the Ross Sea through the eyes of Adelie penguins, and then discover the geology of 300,000-year-old lava flows high on Mount Morning.

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