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World Wildlife Fund: Climate Change Is Putting Polar Bears in Peril
Describes how polar bears' very existence is being threatened by climate change.
Canadian Wildlife Federation
Hinterland Who's Who: Polar Bear
Canadian Wildlife site features the Polar Bear. Highlights its habitats and habits, range, feeding and breeding characteristics.
Read Works
Read Works: A Baby Polar Bear Grows Up
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a baby polar bear as he grows and learns to be on his own. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Polar Bear Ancestry Traced to Ireland
See five close-up images of polar bears as part of a study of the relationship between bear ancestry and historical climate change.
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Read Works
Read Works: A Polar Bear Grows Up [Pdf]
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading passage is about polar bears growing into adult bears.
Read Works
Read Works: A Polar Bear Grows Up
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about polar bear cubs and how they grow. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the polar bear, a species that is threatened. Discusses their classification and evolution, physical appearance, distribution and habitat, behavior and lifestyle, life cycle, diet, predators,...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Bears Lesson Plan
This lesson plan explores how polar bears survive in areas near the North Pole.
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...
PBS
Pbs: Nature: Born to Be Wild, Polar Bears
Research the diet, habitat and behavior of polar bears, and compare and contrast the issues surrounding polar bears in their environment with those of bears in the U.S. Rocky Mountains. Rewrite a human/bear encounter from the bear's...
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: Reader of the Rocks
A nonfiction article where students read about Julie Codispoti, assistant curator at the United States Polar Rock Repository, located at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center. The article provides an overview of Antarctic...
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Photos of Polar Bears
This site has almost 100 polar bear photographs of high quality! Links to numerous other wildlife photos are offered on this site as well.
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.
Climate Literacy
Clean: March of the Polar Bears: Global Change, Sea Ice, and Wildlife Migration
Students use NASA satellite data to study temperature and snow-ice coverage in the South Beaufort Sea, Alaska. With the data, they investigate global change, sea ice changes, and polar bear migration.
Regents of the University of Michigan
Animal Diversity Web: Polar Bear
A detailed overview of the polar bear's characteristics, physical features, behavior, and how it lives. Included are photos and classification information.
BBC
Bbc Newsround: Uk Zoo Wants to Aave Yupi the Polar Bear
Article reports on a zoo in England that is trying to obtain a polar bear from a zoo in Mexico where the temperatures are much warmer.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Polar Bears and Climate Change
The polar bear population is at risk as a result of the changing climate. Read about the risks and check out a few supplemental resources provided by ActionBioscience.org.
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K 3 Learning Pages Web Resources: Polar Bears
This comprehensive resource brings together a list of elementary links on polar bears. Teachers can use this as a starting point for activities, ideas, lesson plans, photographs and more for their polar bear unit.
BBC
Bbc Newsround: Polar Bear Trade Still Legal
Read why a proposed international ban on the polar bear trade was recently dropped.
Ohio State University
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears
This online magazine for educators is geared to integrate inquiry-based science and literacy focused in the concentrated area of the arctic and antarctic.
Ohio State University
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears
This online magazine for educators is geared to integrate inquiry-based science and literacy focused in the concentrated area of the arctic and antarctic.
Chicago Zoological Society
Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Polar Bear
Find out more about the polar bear by browsing this educational resource from the Brookfield Zoo. This animal guide includes quick facts and information on its eating habits, appearance, and habitat.
Science Fun for Everyone
Science Fun: Polar Bear Blubber
How can polar bears live in such cold climates? In this experiment, you will make your own blubber to understand how polar bears stay warm.
Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
Pittsburgh Zoo: Polar Bear
The polar bear is native to the Arctic Ocean and its surrounding seas. Use this resource to discover other unique facts about the largest carnivore found on land.
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