Far, Far South
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ACTIVITY
Create a Blubber Mitten
Does blubber really keep you warm? Fill a zipper bag with shortening. Turn a second bag inside out and zip to bag of shortening, to create a “mitten.” (Your hand is surrounded by shortening without touching it.) Dip one hand into a bowl of icy water. Then try the other with the blubber mitten. How cold does the water seem now?
SITES WORTH A VISIT
What’s life like at the South Pole? Explore these sites for teachers, parents and kids.
Penguin Science – Penguins Marching Into the Classroom
Explore these extensive web-based classroom activities. Follow the penguin breeding season and create your own penguin field research journal. Pose your questions to a penguin researcher. Receive a postcard from Antarctica.
Exploratorium – Ice Stories – Antarctic Marine Ecosystem
Study the Antarctic marine ecosystem, including krill and the creatures that eat them. Watch podcasts from Antarctic researchers or listen to a humpback whale song.
Antarctic Connection
Discover the wildlife of Antarctica – the many penguin species, birds, whales and seals that call it home.
Exploratorium – Ice Stories – Penguins
Check out these facts, photos, maps, video, and webcams from biologists doing research in Antarctica.
National Geographic Explorations – Lesson Plans – Antarctic Food Chain
National Geographic Explorations offers lessons by grade level, including this detailed K-2 lesson.
National Geographic – Animals - Krill
A single krill is not much bigger than a paper clip. How can so much depend on such tiny creatures?
BOOKS ABOUT THE ANTARCTIC
Check out this extensive list of Antarctic resources in print.
Copyright © 2011 Amy Gibson Illustrations ©2011 Daniel Salmieri
