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Antarctica: Yes or No
An engaging PowerPoint gives multiple statements about Antarctica and asks students whether they are true or false. Most of the questions are about weather conditions and animals, and there are a couple of tricky questions about desert...
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Survival in Antarctica
Explore the harsh climate of Antarctica and its wildlife. Participate in experiments to determine how humans survive in the continent's climate, and address the difficulties faced by scientists.
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Antarctica
In this online Antarctica worksheet, students click on eighteen different links to find the answers to eighteen questions associated with Antarctica.
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All About Antarctica
Students research the continent of Antarctica to find important facts about its topography, resources, climate, industry, agriculture, and wildlife. They identify Antarctica's animal life and learn what special needs and habitats these...
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Antarctica Map
In this Antarctica worksheet, students study a very detailed map of this continent. Important features on this map are labeled.
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Comparing Antarctica To Home
In this comparing continents worksheet, students complete a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting their continent with Antarctica. Students complete 3 sections of the diagram.
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Antarctica KWL
In this Antarctica worksheet, students use this form before they begin to learn about this continent. Students record what they know, what they don't know, and what they want to learn about Antarctica.
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Ticky Plans His Trip to Antarctica to See Tacky
First graders participate in a creative problem solving activity to help Ticky get to the Atlantic Ocean. They identify Ticky's problem, brainstorm ways to solve the problem, and develop a plan. They write the steps Ticky needs to take...
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Antarctica Research
In this Antarctica research instructional activity, students write three questions about Antarctica that they would like to have answered. Students write notes from their research and tell what facts they learned that were most...
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Antarctica I
Learners explore exploring and expiditions then simlate their own on campus. They divide into small "expedition groups." Have each team report back to the class about their expeditions, using written, oral, or videotaped presentations.
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Antarctica Chop Worksheet
In this Antarctica words worksheet, learners analyze a chart that contains words that have been chopped in half. Students find the pieces that fit together and write them on the lines. All words pertain to Antarctica.
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Antarctica Acrostic Poem
In this Antarctica poetry worksheet, students first read about how to write an acrostic poem. Students write an acrostic poem using the letters in ANTARCTICA. Each line of poetry will begin with the letters that are printed down in a...
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Ticky Plans His Trip to Antarctica to See Tacky
First graders participate in creative problem solving activity to get from Utah to the Atlantic Ocean.
Institute for Geophysics
Understanding Maps of Earth
Here is your go-to student resource on primary geography concepts, including facts about the surface of the earth and its hemispheres, latitude and longitude, globes, types of maps, and identifying continents and oceans.
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Map of Antarctica
In this map worksheet, 3rd graders will study a map of Antarctica. Students will use this map to label and/or familiarize themselves with various aspects of the continent.
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Compare the Arctic with Antarctica Venn Diagram
In this Venn diagram worksheet, students compare and contrast the Arctic with Antarctica. They place the things that are different about the two geographic regions in the outer areas of the circles and the things that are similar in the...
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Stories That Go with the Territory
Learners investigate various expeditions throughout history to new and/or uncharted territories. They work in groups to develop and 'produce' television news magazine segments about some of these historic expeditions.
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Professor of Ice
In this environment experiment instructional activity, high schoolers complete 3 experiments using ice. First they label each experiment and respond to the four questions given. Then students do the 3 experiments as stated, considering...
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Richard Evelyn Byrd: Live from Antarctica
Students explore Richard Evelyn Bird and his flights over Antarctica. They conduct an online journey of the Polar Duke to discover where to study penguins, seals, oceans, ice and Antarctica's ozone hole. They create their own Antarctic...
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Antarctica
In this word scramble worksheet, students recognize words to complete the cryptogram. Students unscramble nine words to solve the riddle about Antarctica.
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Make a Balloon Globe
"We've got the whole world in our hands," is what your students will be singing after completing this fun geography activity. Using the included templates for the seven continents and a balloon, they create their very own globes.
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Antarctica
Third graders become familiar with Antarctica, the Earth's southernmost continent, by researching its environment and inhabitants. They reference maps, conduct Internet research, identify animals, create graphs and write reports.
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Antarctica Word Search
For this geography worksheet, students analyze 16 words in a word bank that pertain to Antarctica. Students find these words in a word search puzzle.
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Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure
Learners research the exploration of Antarctica by the explorer Sir Ernest Shackelton. In this Antarctic exploration lesson, students watch a movie about Sir Ernest Shackelton and his ship the Endurance. Learners study a map of...