Polar Pals: Polar Bears & Penguins

In this animals learning exercise, students create a polar animal wheel. Animals include a walrus, penguin, reindeer, and polar bear.

Read some facts about polar bears. Includes audio narration in 8 additional languages with text in English.

Students participate in a comparison lesson where they compare fictional bears to real life bears. In this science/language arts lesson, students read Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Students observe characteristics of these fictional...

Students make a model of a polar bear and discuss why fur/skin color is important. They also perform a simple experiment using black and white socks to determine how color affects temperature.

Students complete an integrated unit on bears. They read numerous books about bears, create a bear puppet, act-out stories, create a polar bear painting, participate in a Teddy Bear Picnic, and conduct a Teddy Bear parade.

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.

First graders explain what keeps Polar Bears warm in the Arctic by experiencing a layer of blubber to protect them. They read Little Polar Bear by Hans de Beer.

Students study bears. In this science lesson, students compare black, grizzly and polar bears. Students measure the bear tracks and compare the bear habitats and diet.

Students research bears and their characteristics with a specific study on North American bears and polar bears. In this bear study lesson, students read books about polar bears and wild bears. Students complete activities to further...

This learning activity from A to Z Teacher Stuff explores what keeps polar bears warm in the Arctic. The activity allows students to experience what a layer of "blubber" protection is like.