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Overview

Game incorporating polar bear eating habits.

Objectives

Students learn about polar bears.

Lesson Preparation

Have access to either a basketball court or an outdoor area that students can run in.

Procedure

1. Read Book: National Geographic Readers: Polar Bears by Laura Marsh.
2. Choose 2-3 students to be the polar bears and have them stand in the "Ice Cave"

Overview

Students read about polar regions and create models of shelter adaptations for the cold frigid climate.

Objectives

• Students will understand how humans create and survived in shelters in the polar regions.
• Math Link: Students can count how many marshmallows it takes to cover up the entire igloo.

Lesson Preparation

• Read the Book: *Igloos and the Inuit

Overview

Students will be able to understand one of the adaptations of living in cold environments.

Objectives

Describe what blubber is and how it works.

Lesson Preparation

• Partially fill a gallon-sized Ziploc bag with Crisco or shortening.
• Place another gallon-sized Ziploc bag inside.
• Merge the two bags together with duct tape.

Procedure

1. Read the books *Polar

Overview

Students learn about what type of polar animals live in the Arctic.

Objectives

Students understand the relationships between various trophic levels within the Arctic tundra.

Lesson Preparation

Prepare a picture sign for each of the organisms in the food web.

Procedure

1. KWL Chart on Polar Scientist: knows (K), wants to know (W), and has learned (L).
2. Read

Kate's alma mater, the University of Michigan Honors College, published a post highlight focusing on her expedition in 2017 to Antarctica.

Local news article promoting an upcoming talk to the SeaDoc Society with teacher Timothy Dwyer.

Overview:

Students will examine sunspots and track them at different latitudes on the Sun. This activity is adapted from the Tracking Sunspots activity on NASA’s Solar and Heliocentric Observatory (SOHO) website (2009): https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/classroom/for_students.html.

Objectives:

Students begin to familiarize themselves with solar activity by tracking sunspots at different latitudes on the Sun. This activity is designed to get students thinking about

Dennis Price from The Radio Hotline interviews Kate about her South Pole Expedition in this hour long episode.