Animal Fact Guide
Animal Fact Guide: Polar Bear
Guidebook entry on the polar bear features information on its physical characteristics, habitat (with a distribution map), diet, breeding patterns, unique traits and behavior, conservation status, and tips on what you can do to help.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Polar Bears
Learn more about the polar bear when you visit this informative site that features a diagram of the polar bear and information on its diet, habitat, anatomy, reproduction and so on.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Polar Bears
This site created by NatureWorks focuses on the Polar Bears. The content of this resource includes a look at this species' characteristics, range, habitat, diet, behavior and life cycle.
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Scott Polar Research Institute: Polar Bears
Here you can learn about polar bears: where they live, what they eat, and what each part of their body is adapted for.
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Explore North: All About Polar Bears
This resource provides an overview of polar bears in the arctic. The content includes a look at polar bear habitat, population, diet, and more. Several photographs of polar bears are also included.
BBC
Bbc Science & Nature: Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus)
The BBC provides a general profile of polar bears, detailing information about their distribution, habitat, diet, behavior, reproduction, and conservation status. Numerous pictures and a video are also available.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Arctic Studies Center: Polar Bear
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, in a section titled "North American Mammals," offers a general overview of the polar bear. Additional content includes detailed drawings, photographs, and a map showing the polar bear's...
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Conservation Biology: Polar Bear
Information about the polar bear: physical characteristics, behavior, life cycle, distribution, threats to their survival, conservation efforts, etc. (Published Sept. 7, 2011)
NOAA
Noaa: Where Will the Polar Bears Go? [Pdf]
Get to know polar bears and learn why it is important for them to live in the current arctic conditions. Make a poster that demonstrates your understanding of how climate change in the arctic could affect polar bears and humans.
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Polar Bears International: Units and Lessons
A collection of seven units and six lessons about polar bears created by professionals that support national literacy standards and learning outcomes for specific school districts.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Animals: Polar Bears Rock!
Read some facts about polar bears. Includes audio narration in 8 additional languages with text in English.
Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Canadian Geographic: Animal Facts: Polar Bear
Offers quick facts on the polar bear about physical appearance, habitat, behavior and its range.
Defenders of Wildlife
Defenders of Wildlife: Polar Bear
Has a fact sheet on the polar bear and video footage of a polar bear in the Arctic.
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Encounters: Wild Explorers: Polar Bear
Learn fascinating facts about the incredible polar bear and listening to them growl.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Kids: Polar Bear
Colorful resource for learning fun facts about polar bears with photographs as well as information regarding their physical characteristics and unique features. Audio clip included.
Saint Louis Zoo
Saint Louis Zoo: Polar Bear
Discover fun facts and learn about the habitat, appearance, and conservation status of the polar bear.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Polar Bear Polar Bear
In this lesson plan, students will use a double bubble map to compare and contrast two characters from the story "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?" by Bill Martin, Jr.
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World Wildlife Fund: Climate Change Is Putting Polar Bears in Peril
Describes how polar bears' very existence is being threatened by climate change.
Canadian Wildlife Federation
Hinterland Who's Who: Polar Bear
Canadian Wildlife site features the Polar Bear. Highlights its habitats and habits, range, feeding and breeding characteristics.
Read Works
Read Works: A Baby Polar Bear Grows Up
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a baby polar bear as he grows and learns to be on his own. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Polar Bear Ancestry Traced to Ireland
See five close-up images of polar bears as part of a study of the relationship between bear ancestry and historical climate change.
Read Works
Read Works: A Polar Bear Grows Up [Pdf]
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading passage is about polar bears growing into adult bears.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the polar bear, a species that is threatened. Discusses their classification and evolution, physical appearance, distribution and habitat, behavior and lifestyle, life cycle, diet, predators,...
Read Works
Read Works: A Polar Bear Grows Up
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about polar bear cubs and how they grow. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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