Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Polar Bears
This site gives an in-depth description of a polar bear, including its behavior, appearance, reproduction, and classification. The site includes photos and illustrations and an interactive quiz to test your understanding.
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Ursus International Conservation Institute: Polar Bears
Read an in-depth description of polar bears. Includes numerous images.
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Animal Planet: Top 10 Animal Moms: Polar Bears
This article describes the mother polar bear's pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. She is number four of the top10 animal moms.
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Polar Bears International: The Bear Facts
This site from Polar Bears International, dedicated to the worldwide conservation of the polar bear and its arctic habitat, provides extensive information about the polar bear. Content includes polar bear I.Q., hibernation facts,...
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Polar Bears
Listen to a roar (with RealPlayer) and learn about the lives of polar bears. [0:52]
Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life: Polar Bear
Extensive resource investigates the polar bear with a description, pictures, and maps. Includes facts on biology, history, behavior, conservation, distribution, habitat, and external links.
World Wildlife Fund for Nature
Wwf: Polar Bear Tracker
World Wildlife Fund site which details and tracks the movement of Polar Bears. This site has links to information about Polar Bears, where they're located, information about the WWF, and risk factors for Polar Bears.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: Polar Bears
National Geographic offers this great site to help you explore a polar bear's world. Facts, video, audio, map and a postcard to send to your friends. Requires RealPlayer for audio and video features.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Ice Stories: Polar Bears
Comprehensive information about polar bears including facts about their habitat and characteristics. Features photos and links to related resources.
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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.
Sea World Parks & Entertainment
Sea World: Polar Bears
Outlines the characteristics of the polar bear, including classification, habitat, behaviors, and conservation. Helps students identify with polar bears with a list of "Books for Young Readers." Information at a level of upper...
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...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Disappearing by Degrees
Mary-Russell Roberson's article, "Disappearing by Degrees," highlights the problems with maintaining the current polar bear population. The article discusses how the current temperature and weather conditions also affect polar bear...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: The Bears Among Us
This article focuses on a variety of bears (American black bears, brown bears (including grizzlies), and polar bears). The largest focus in the article is on conservation efforts on behalf of bears.
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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.
Read Works
Read Works: The Heat Is On
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage gives information about global warming and its threat to the polar bears in the Arctic. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
Read Works
Read Works: The Cutest Animal Finalists
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the information about animals that students have voted as being "the cutest" in a Weekly Reader contest. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...
Read Works
Read Works: Where Will I Live?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about how habitat changes affect endangered animals. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: A Polar Bear Grows Up
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage gives a brief explanatin of the life cycle of the polar bear. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Bears Lesson Plan
This lesson plan explores how polar bears survive in areas near the North Pole.
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.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Arctic Story Puzzles
Construct a story about the Inuit or the polar bear from a series of pictures that can be put together in a sequence.
National Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife: The Incredible Shrinking Polar Bears
This article, published by National Wildlife Magazine (February/March 2004 issue), offers an insightful look into the life of the polar bears of Canada's Hudson Bay. The article looks at why these bears are losing weight and bearing...
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.