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Antarctica Chop Worksheet
In this Antarctica words worksheet, students analyze a chart that contains words that have been chopped in half. Students find the pieces that fit together and write them on the lines. All words pertain to Antarctica.
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Ticky Plans His Trip to Antarctica to See Tacky
First graders participate in creative problem solving activity to get from Utah to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Antarctica Acrostic Poem
For this Antarctica poetry worksheet, students first read about how to write an acrostic poem. Students write an acrostic poem using the letters in ANTARCTICA. Each line of poetry will begin with the letters that are printed down in a...
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Antarctica Acrostic Poem
In this poetry writing learning exercise, students use the letters in ANTARCTICA to begin each line of poetry. There are graphics on the page.
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Bank On It! Antarctica
In this vocabulary worksheet, students read an informational paragraph about Antarctica. Students then fill in the 17 blanks with words from the word bank.
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Adjectives: Describing Antarctica
For this adjectives worksheet, students write six adjectives that describe Antarctica. Students write a sentence using each of the adjectives.
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The Cultural Geography of Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica
Students use information from the Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Web site to explore multiculturalism and immigration in Australia. They create graphs and charts from immigration data.
Institute for Geophysics
Understanding Maps of Earth
Here is your go-to student resource on primary geography concepts, including facts about the surface of the earth and its hemispheres, latitude and longitude, globes, types of maps, and identifying continents and oceans.
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Map of Antarctica
In this map worksheet, 3rd graders will study a map of Antarctica. Students will use this map to label and/or familiarize themselves with various aspects of the continent.
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Compare the Arctic with Antarctica Venn Diagram
In this Venn diagram worksheet, students compare and contrast the Arctic with Antarctica. They place the things that are different about the two geographic regions in the outer areas of the circles and the things that are similar in the...
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Staying Warm in Antarctica!
Has your class ever wondered how animals and scientists stay warm in the Polar Regions? Kids will investigate to understand the three types of heat transfer and how heat transfer affects those trying to stay toasty in sub-zero...
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Antarctica Food Chain
Students visit an interactive web page. In this food chain lesson, students visit an interactive web page displaying an example of the food chain in Antarctica. As students move their mouse over the images, captions appear describing the...
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Antarctica
In this map activity, 3rd graders explore a map of the continent of Antarctica. Students will color and label the map of the continent.
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Spelling for Antarctica: Cursive
In this spelling and printing practice instructional activity, students trace the 20 listed words from Antarctica. Students may then practice writing the words independently.
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Where in the World Is Our Teacher?
Kirk Beckendorf, a middle school teacher, joined researchers at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica to help maintain automatic weather stations. The lesson encourages pupils to track his travels around the region. They connect with the...
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Carbon Dioxide & Krill: Impacts
What effects do temperature and carbon dioxide levels have on the zooplankton of Antarctica? This concluding lesson plan in a short unit on climate change and the ocean helps environmental scientists answer these questions. After...
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Antarctica Group Creative Writing
In this creative writing worksheet, students write a brief story about Antarctica, using a list of given words or variations of the words.
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Penguins: Sensitive Indicators
Students examine how penguins are affected by climate change. In this climate change lesson students research the impact of climate change then create a poster to call awareness to it.
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The Coldest Place at the Bottom of the World
Students research and trace Shackleton's actual and intended route on an area map. They analyze the altitude changes involved in a trek across Antarctica and complete a worksheet comparing Antarctica to their own state.
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Getting to the Core of Climate Change
Young scholars investigate climate changes by graphing and analyzing ice core data from Greenland and Antarctica. They create, explain and report the pattern of data on a graph of ice core data. In addition they find relationships...
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Penguins Nesting Know-How
Learners maintain a field journal as they follow penguin parents raising their chicks during the breeding season. They formulate testable questions. Students reflect on animal behavior in the field related to survival and chick rearing.
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Break an Egg
Students research antarctic wildlife and create a diorama and fact sheet to present their research to the class. They create an Antarctic explorer's journal.
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Stories That Go with the Territory
Young scholars investigate various expeditions throughout history to new and/or uncharted territories. They work in groups to develop and 'produce' television news magazine segments about some of these historic expeditions.
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Professor of Ice
In this environment experiment learning exercise, students complete 3 experiments using ice. First they label each experiment and respond to the four questions given. Then students do the 3 experiments as stated, considering what the...