The Polar Regions: Arctic Lessons

Appropriate for Grades 3-5

Iditarod

Scholastic magazine has provided this site with fun online activities, information about top mushers and Alaska, as well as literature connections to the Iditarod.

Geography Places and Regions Standard 6: Understands that culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions

The Great North: Learning To Give

Lesson connections to the movie, "The Great North" which shows the relationship of the Inuit to the caribou.

Geography Places and Regions Standard 6: Understands that culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions

Appropriate for Grades 5-9

In The Footsteps of Sir Douglas Mawson

This lesson uses a Flash plugin and is designed for students in grades 6-7. Suggestions are made of how to integrate the informational site into ongoing curricula.

Standards: adaptation to environment; earth processes, factors and processes influencing the natural environment.
Life Sciences Standard 6: Understands relationships among organisms and their physical environment
Earth and Space Sciences Standard 1: Understands atmospheric processes and the water cycle

Geography Places and Regions Standard 6: Understands that culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions
Geography Human Systems Standard 9: Understands nature, distribution and migration of human populations

Tundra

This is a collection of links to lessons and information that can be used when students are studying the tundra. A particularly nice lesson that integrates math skills is the lesson entitled: How Much Tundra To Feed A Caribou? Permawhat is also a great hands-on lesson to help students better understand permafrost.