Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears

Teach Polar Science Concepts

(see http://beyondpenguins.ehe.osu.edu/stories-for-students)

"Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears", is an e-zine which focuses on preparing K-5 teachers to teach polar science concepts while also integrating inquiry-based science and literacy instruction.

Includes podcasts, articles, webinars, and an e-book collection.

Each title is differentiated for K-1, 2-3, and 4-5 and comes in 3 formats (text only, illustrated book, and e-book). The e-books can be read online and are narrated with an audio "play" button.

The titles include:

        • The Inupiat of Alaska and their response to climate change

        • What it's like to live and work at the South Pole

        • Polar exploration

        • Animals that are adapted to life in cold polar oceans

        • The art and science of building igloos

        • How glaciers shape the landscape

        • Blue whales and a Southern Ocean food chain

        • The relationships between plants, insects, and animals on the tundra

        • Lichen – a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and an alga

        • The life cycle and yearly migration of sanderlings

        • The life of an arctic wolf

        • Mt. Erebus – Antarctica's most active volcano

        • How dark and light objects reflect solar energy

        • Polar geology

        • Why ice floats

        • Antarctica's weather and climate

        • The aurora

        • Polar dinosaurs

        • The characteristics of the Arctic and Antarctica

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