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Animal Fact Guide

Animal Fact Guide: Polar Bear

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Polar Bears

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Polar Bears

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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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Other

Scott Polar Research Institute: Polar Bears

For Students 3rd - 8th
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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Other

Explore North: All About Polar Bears

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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BBC

Bbc Science & Nature: Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus)

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Arctic Studies Center: Polar Bear

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Conservation Biology: Polar Bear

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the polar bear: physical characteristics, behavior, life cycle, distribution, threats to their survival, conservation efforts, etc. (Published Sept. 7, 2011)
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NOAA

Noaa: Where Will the Polar Bears Go? [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Other

Polar Bears International: Units and Lessons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Animals: Polar Bears Rock!

For Students K - 1st Standards
Read some facts about polar bears. Includes audio narration in 8 additional languages with text in English.
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Royal Canadian Geographical Society

Canadian Geographic: Animal Facts: Polar Bear

For Students 3rd - 8th
Offers quick facts on the polar bear about physical appearance, habitat, behavior and its range.
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Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife: Polar Bear

For Students 3rd - 8th
Has a fact sheet on the polar bear and video footage of a polar bear in the Arctic.
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Other

Encounters: Wild Explorers: Polar Bear

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn fascinating facts about the incredible polar bear and listening to them growl.
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San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Kids: Polar Bear

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Saint Louis Zoo

Saint Louis Zoo: Polar Bear

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover fun facts and learn about the habitat, appearance, and conservation status of the polar bear.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Polar Bear Polar Bear

For Teachers K
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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Other

World Wildlife Fund: Climate Change Is Putting Polar Bears in Peril

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes how polar bears' very existence is being threatened by climate change.
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Canadian Wildlife Federation

Hinterland Who's Who: Polar Bear

For Students 9th - 10th
Canadian Wildlife site features the Polar Bear. Highlights its habitats and habits, range, feeding and breeding characteristics.
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Read Works

Read Works: A Baby Polar Bear Grows Up

For Teachers 1st
[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.
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National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Polar Bear Ancestry Traced to Ireland

For Students 9th - 10th
See five close-up images of polar bears as part of a study of the relationship between bear ancestry and historical climate change.
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Read Works

Read Works: A Polar Bear Grows Up [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading passage is about polar bears growing into adult bears.
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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus)

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
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Read Works

Read Works: A Polar Bear Grows Up

For Students 2nd
[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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