CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

The focus of this site is Antarctica. Designed for fifth- through eighth-grade students, this site contains detailed lesson plans, learning activities, digital images, and links to related resources.

"What are the native land mammals of Antarctica? Do you know what Nanatuks are? Did you realize that if you use rainfall as a measure, Antarctica is by definition a desert?" Find the answers to these questions and more in this...

Explains the history of the U.S. Antarctic Program and describes each of the three stations operated by the United States, of which McMurdo Station is the largest. Following that is a description of how seasons are experienced in the...

Visit Antarctica, the most remote continent, through this site that covers the climate, animals, geography, and first-person accounts from visitors in the 1990s.

Learn some amazing facts about the coolest place on Earth, Antarctica. Explore a map and geography, science, animals, explorers, jokes, and more. Also contains a quiz to take.

Official site of the British Antarctic Survey, this page offers info. on various aspects of Antarctica's physical geography, as well as wildlife, weather & other related topics.

NPR presents a pictorial essay on Antarctica and discusses why tourism is on the rise.

An online exhibit through which you can learn about Antarctica's explorers, the characteristics of the continent, and the peril faced by Antarctica's environment and ecosystems.

Play a game where you explore three scenes in Antarctica and find different types of animals: south polar skua, crabeater seal, emperor penguin, ice fish, leopard seal, killer whale, krill, adelie penguin, and weddell seal. After you...

The Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica takes you on a tour of New Zealand, McMurdo Station, and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Station, all part of a virtual tour of Antarctica. Lots of pictures and a relaxed style...

Resource-rich website will help students understand the challenges that Antarctica faces, the history of its exploration and the relationship between Antarctica and the rest of the world. Activities reveal insights about how it feels to...

A website about Richard E. Byrd, Dr. Frederick A. Cook, and Sir Hubert Wilkins and Antarctica exploration.

Explanation of why Antarctica has fossils of ferns, amphibians, and reptiles. Gondwanaland is discussed and shown in an interactive map.

Article reports on activist Lewis Pugh's daring swims across the Ross Sea to bring awareness to the need for a marine protection area in the pristine region. Includes video.

Latest headline scientific news of theworkbeing done in the Antarctic, and stories of the peopleliving there.

Facts about the location, human geography, physical geography, climate, geology, and topography of Antarctica.

View a digital image of a colored shaded relief map of Antarctica.

After learning why scientists go to Antarctica, students plan and go on an expedition of an "unexplored" territory themselves. Planning guide for the expedition is included.

Who owns Antarctica? CGP Grey investigates.

Dispatches from more than twenty scientific projects taking place in Antarctica offer insight into the Antarctic ecosystem and the broad range of knowledge scientists are gaining through their studies there.

Visit the Byrd Polar Research Center site and find out about the research currently going on in Antarctica. Click on Polar Pointers to find links to other sites with information about the Antarctic.

ELL students - and all students - will find these resources about Antarctica interesting and informative. This site is enriched with maps, clipart, games, activities, vocabulary builders, lesson plans and art activities.

In this lesson, students learn about objects in the universe, including constellations, planets, meteors, asteroids, and comets.