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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.
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.
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...
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Conservation Biology: Polar Bear
Information about the polar bear: physical characteristics, behavior, life cycle, distribution, threats to their survival, conservation efforts, etc. (Published Sept. 7, 2011)
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NOAA
Noaa: Where Will the Polar Bears Go? [Pdf]
Get to know polar bears and learn why it is important for them to live in the current arctic conditions. Make a poster that demonstrates your understanding of how climate change in the arctic could affect polar bears and humans.
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Polar Bears International: Units and Lessons
A collection of seven units and six lessons about polar bears created by professionals that support national literacy standards and learning outcomes for specific school districts.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Animals: Polar Bears Rock!
Read some facts about polar bears. Includes audio narration in 8 additional languages with text in English.
Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Canadian Geographic: Animal Facts: Polar Bear
Offers quick facts on the polar bear about physical appearance, habitat, behavior and its range.
Defenders of Wildlife
Defenders of Wildlife: Polar Bear
Has a fact sheet on the polar bear and video footage of a polar bear in the Arctic.
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Encounters: Wild Explorers: Polar Bear
Learn fascinating facts about the incredible polar bear and listening to them growl.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Kids: Polar Bear
Colorful resource for learning fun facts about polar bears with photographs as well as information regarding their physical characteristics and unique features. Audio clip included.
Saint Louis Zoo
Saint Louis Zoo: Polar Bear
Discover fun facts and learn about the habitat, appearance, and conservation status of the polar bear.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Polar Bear Polar Bear
In this lesson plan, students will use a double bubble map to compare and contrast two characters from the story "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?" by Bill Martin, Jr.
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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.
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,...
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.
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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