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CK-12

Author

CK-12

Grades

6th, 7th, 8th

Subjects

Science, Social Studies, Earth and Space Sciences, Geography

Resource Types

Digital Text
Interactive Media
Video, 6 mintes, 7 seconds, CC, Subtitles

Regional Focus

North America, Polar Regions

Polar Climates

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Synopsis

In this interactive textbook lesson, students will discover different types of polar climates, where they occur on Earth, and the types of organisms that can survive in very cold polar climates.
Students will learn terminologies, such as permafrost, tundra, ice caps, and alpine.

Teaching Tips

Positives

Students can work at their own pace through this self-guided textbook lesson, interacting with useful questions throughout.
Figures and graphics are included to illustrate the text.
Students can check their understanding by taking an interactive quiz at the end of the lesson.

Additional Prerequisites

Students must sign in to access some interactive features.
The video at the end of the lesson is an audio file with just one image of polar bears accompanying the audio. Some students may have a hard time focusing on just listening to the audio, so turning on subtitles may help.

Differentiation

In biology classes, students could choose a plant or animal that lives in a polar region and make a slideshow presentation to explain how the organism survives in such extreme conditions.
Students could use this interactive data resource from NASA to learn how climate change is affecting ice sheets in polar regions.

Scientist Notes

The resource highlights polar climates and their features. Very few animals like caribou, polar bears, and plants like mosses easily adapt to this climate. This resource is recommended for teaching.

Standards

This resource addresses the listed standards. To fully meet standards, search for more related resources.

Science

LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
- MS-LS2-1. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
- MS-LS2-2. Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.

ESS2: Earth's Systems
- MS-ESS2-6. Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.

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