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Read Works

Read Works: Ice Picks

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a telescope called IceCube that is buried under the ice in Antarctica. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Getting to the Core of Climate Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate climate changes going back thousands of years by graphing and analyzing ice core data from Greenland and Antarctica. They use information about natural and human-caused changes in the atmosphere to formulate...
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Other

Antarctic Geological Drilling: What if the Ice Shelves Melted? [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
An activity guide where students build a model of Antarctica with its ice shelves. They use it to explore the impact of ice shelves melting in the Antarctic, and will discover that frozen ice shelves actually prevent ice further inland...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Antarctic Adventures!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This month-long ongoing lesson will give the students opportunities to learn more about Antarctica. They will investigate and research specific information and use it to create a notebook and an information table.
Website
Other

U.s. Antarctic Program

For Students 9th - 10th
This government site delves into the research of all aspects of the Antarctic region including its ecosystems, its impact on the climate, and aerospace.
Article
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Warming of the Polar Regions

For Students 9th - 10th
While global average temperature has risen above the 1950-1980 average, our planet's polar regions are experiencing warming at a faster rate than other places.
Graphic
Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Cold Deserts of the World

For Students 3rd - 8th
A chart summarizes the sizes, physical features, plant and animal life, and special facts of a selection of the world's cold deserts, including Antarctica, the Gobi, and the Great Basin Desert in the western United States.
Website
British Antarctic Survey

British Antarctic Survey: The Antarctic Treaty Explained

For Students 9th - 10th
A clear explanation of the Antarctic Treaty, a unique international agreement between scientists. Outlines the gist of the fourteen articles in the original agreement, signed in 1959 by twelve nations. Many more have signed on since. The...
Primary
British Antarctic Survey

British Antarctic Survey: The Antarctic Treaty (1959)

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of the original Antarctic Treaty that was signed by twelve nations in 1959. It laid out the terms for regulating scientific research in the Antarctic.
Handout
Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Climate Change: Ice Cores and History of Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Article describing research done in the West Antarctica, where ice cores were removed to a depth of two miles, providing information on climate change over the last one hundred thousand years. (Date published: Feb. 2, 2011)
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Other

Cambridge University: Atmospheric Chemistry Research Group: The Ozone Hole Tour

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource gives information about the ozone hole over Antarctica. There are movies, virtual reality models, explanations and photographs. QuickTime plug-in optional.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Nova Zembla: Why Do We Need Plants?

For Students K - 1st
This module explores how plants help animals survive. Bobby is a scientist on Antarctica. He discovers many amazing uses of plants. Join him and help him learn.
Handout
San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Kids: Bee

For Students K - 1st
Bees fly from flower to flower, sipping nectar and collecting grains of pollen. Bees have a special tongue that sucks up the nectar and a crop in their throat for storing it until they get back to the hive, where it is turned into honey...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Fisher Boat: Time & Mass: Months, Seasons and Mass

For Students K - 1st
Lars in Antarctica needs help. Can you help him with all the months of the year and with mass?
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Fashion Store: Mass & Capacity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Penny the Penguin owns a fashion store. Let's find out what people wear at Antarctica. Uses popups.
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Husky Sled: 3 D Objects

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Discover 2D shapes and 3D objects from different views in Antarctica!
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Fisher Boat: Subtraction and Groups

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Frankie is fishing in Antarctica. Can you help him count how many fish he has caught?
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Husky Sled: Shape & Space: Position and Movement

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Visit the huskies at Antarctica and find out more about the position and movement of objects.
Activity
University of Chicago

Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica: Don't Be Too Flaky

For Students 3rd - 8th
After reading some facts about the properties of water, students conduct experiments to measure the relative densities of water, ice and snow and submit the results to the website.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: School Publishers: World Atlas: The World

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides continent, country, and ocean floor maps from all over the world. Click on a continent's name to access the detailed maps which also include statistical facts on each available country.
Handout
Association of Religion Data Archives

Association of Religion Data Archives: National Profiles: Cocos (Keeling) Island

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about religion on Cocos (Keeling) Island, in this Association of Religion Data Archives country profile, which includes general facts, history, and religious data.
Website
Ohio State University

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This online magazine for educators is geared to integrate inquiry-based science and literacy focused in the concentrated area of the arctic and antarctic.
Website
Ohio State University

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This online magazine for educators is geared to integrate inquiry-based science and literacy focused in the concentrated area of the arctic and antarctic.
Lesson Plan
Climate Literacy

Clean: Dead Diatoms Do Tell Tales

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students take on the role of climate detectives in this climate investigation. Teams make a model of sediment cores using glass beads and sand, study the core samples, and tell something about the hypothetical paleoclimate that existed...

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