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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
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
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.
Life
Sciences Standard 6: Understands relationships among organisms
and their physical environment
Geography
Places and Regions Standard 6: Understands that culture and experience
influence people's perceptions of places and regions
Lots of activity sheets and hands-on experiments provided by SeaWorld. The activities are related to Arctic explorers, scrimshaw, and vocabulary and don't take very long to do.
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
Teacher-designed webquest for those students studying Arctic explorers. Lots of good activities are included but links to informational material need to be updated before you use this activity.
Life Sciences
Standard 6: Understands relationships among organisms and their physical
environment
Geography
Places and Regions Standard 6: Understands that culture and experience
influence people's perceptions of places and regions
Student-designed activities designed to enhance the learning available in the information section of this website (scroll to the bottom to find the link to the Wildlife information pages).
Life Sciences Standard 6: Understands relationships among organisms and their physical environment
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Example of scrimshaw carving made by a whaler on a whale tooth. Whalers typically used sperm whale teeth, whale bone, walrus tusks and baleen plates. Learn more about scrimshaw at the South Australian Museum by searching for Arctic. |
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