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Curated OER

Polar Bears in Peril - Climate Change Culprit?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the changes in sea ice over several years. In this life science lesson, students review and examine 20 years of data. They use Excel to graph data and analyze trends.
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Worksheet
A to Z Teacher Stuff

Word Search Match

For Students K - 5th
Go beyond a traditional word search with a clue matching, word search combo. Scholars read clues, write the word that matches, then search for the word in a puzzle. Clues and words offer insight into the life of polar bears.
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Curated OER

Blubber Mittens:Adaptation to Cold Climates

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students get a first hand look at the benefit of a "blubber layer" in cold climates through a simulation using vegetable shortening and icy water. Through this simulation, students examine how adaptations help organisms survive.
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Worksheet
A to Z Teacher Stuff

Polar Bear Crossword

For Students K - 5th
Show what you know about polar bears with a 10-question crossword puzzle. Questions pertain to a polar bears' habitat, food source, and more!
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Determining Main Ideas and Supporting Details and Summarizing: “Clothing”

For Teachers 5th Standards
Surviving winter. Pupils begin reading on page 18 of The Inuit Thought of It: Amazing Arctic Inventions and sketch how the people used animal skin clothing to survive the winter. Readers complete a main idea graphic organizer with...
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Curated OER

Color Me

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this color me worksheet, learners color and illustrate four unique colorful animals: bald eagle, caribou, Arctic grayling and muskox.
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Curated OER

Color Me

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this color me worksheet, pupils color and illustrate four unique animals: wood duck, brook trout, moose and pacific white-sided dolphin.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Day in a Life of an Arctic/Antarctic Animal

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners, through video segments, explore what types of animals live in the Arctic and Antarctica. They also clear up any misconceptions they have about penguins or polar bears.
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Curated OER

Arctic Food Web

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research animals found in the arctic. They discuss what living things need in order to survive and where they get their food. Students discuss the difference between producers and consumers and create a food web for animals in...
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Curated OER

Build the Arctic Tundra

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students build a model of biome in order to comprehend the abiotic and biotic factors that are prevalent in a biome. In this hands on building lesson, students use a box to build a biome. . Students decorate the inside and outside of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Polar Pals: Polar Bears & Penguins

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete a variety of activities about polar bears and penguins including the "Blubber Mitten" experiment. They culminate the unit by creating a visual representation comparing and contrasting the two animals.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Arctic Peoples

For Students 6th - 8th
In this world history worksheet, students utilize a word bank of 10 terms or phrases to answer 10 fill in the blank questions about Arctic peoples. A short answer question is included as well.
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Interactive
Wildlife Conservation Society

Build Your Wild Self

For Students K - 5th
Get wild with an interactive web site that challenges scholars to create their wildest self. Future wild things begin as an average person—eyes, mouth, clothes—then morph into animal attributes—horns, tails, wings—and end in the desert,...
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Interactive
Mr. Nussbaum

Penguins

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Penguins are the topic of an informational text that scholars read or listen to, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions.
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PPT
Curated OER

Bears

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
The Grizzly, Polar, and Panda are all types of bears; they are also the topic of this informative presentation. Each slide contains numerous facts about bear habitats, food resources, and characteristics. Fun photographs, sound, and...
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Lesson Plan
National Wildlife Federation

Massive Migrations: Grades K-4

For Teachers K - 4th
Bird migration is a fascinating behavior. Budding scientists experience their own migrations using the school grounds for their flight patterns. They follow a map that leads them through a migration pattern that includes stops for...
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Printables
Teacher Printables

My Mini Book About …

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This is one of several printable pages on which little life scientists can write out their research on an assigned animal. The highlighted page is for alligator research, but several other animal pages are included as other materials....
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Curated OER

Creating a Classification System

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create classification system for Arctic-dwelling animals, the Arctic hare in particular.
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Curated OER

Going into the Great North

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe and investigate the areas included in the Great North. In this geography instructional activity, students observe a documentary based on the Great North. Later the students will draw and identify countries within the...
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Curated OER

The Whiningdingdilly

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read the book The Whiningdingdilly and complete a Venn Diagram, write a friendly letter, find misplaced animals, and morph animals and humans. In this The Whiningdingdilly lesson plan, students practice reading, writing, map...
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Curated OER

Name Scramble

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this name scramble worksheet, students practice the skill of unscrambling the names of ten animals. Students share their answers with their classmates.
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Curated OER

Crossword

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this crossword worksheet, students, after researching world-wide animals, complete a crossword puzzle involving twelve world-wide animals.
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Curated OER

Canadian Legends (Inuit and/or Native)

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine the attributes of Canadian legends by reading both Internet and written versions. They examine Arctic animals in order to determine which one they will write about. They work in pairs to write the first half of a...
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Curated OER

Adaptations

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are able to physically record on a sheet of paper predictions and results of an experiment pertaining to the adaptations of Arctic animals after a class discussion about the topic.

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