This article features children's literature about plants and the plants found in the polar regions.

This article provides an overview of the geography, characteristics, and life of the Arctic and Southern Oceans.

This article profiles Julie Codispoti, assistant curator at the United States Polar Rock Repository, and discusses the basics of polar geology. Modified versions are available for younger students.

Rationale: This activity will provide an alternative to traditional activities on French families offered in a lot of textbooks, and will get students engage with an authentic material: an excerpt from a contemporary Francophone “bande dessinée”. While some students may already know traditional Francophone comics such as Tintin or Astérix, this activity is here to provide them with a more recent and more diverse example. Aya de Yopougon is centered on a young female character growing up in Yop City, a fictional city very similar to writer Marguerite Abouet’s own native city (Abidjan, Ivory Coast). The “reading” phase of this activity is designed to encourage collaborative reading.

This article provides an overview of metacognition, suggestions for teaching elementary students to be metacognitive about their reading, and links to professional resources.

This article explains how the ice and snow of the polar regions fit in the global water cycle and includes links to professional development resources.

Designed for lower elementary, but can be used at any age for a warm up or station activity. Can be done in a regular classroom, physical education class or at home. Great fitness activity done with using only a deck of cards

This Remote Learning Plan was created by Cyndi Shinn in collaboration with Rick Meyer as part of the 2020 ESU-NDE Remote Learning Plan Project. Educators worked with coaches to create Remote Learning Plans as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.The attached Remote Learning Plan is designed for Grade Band Range 3- 6 Language Arts students. Students will write an Opinion Writing. This Remote Learning Plan addresses the following NDE Standard: English Language Arts - Writing It is expected that this Remote Learning Plan will take students 5 days with 45 to 60 minutes for each lesson to complete.Here is the direct link to the Google Doc:Opinion Writing 

This Remote Learning Plan was created by Cyndi Shinn in collaboration with Rick Meyer as part of the 2020 ESU-NDE Remote Learning Plan Project. Educators worked with coaches to create Remote Learning Plans as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.The attached Remote Learning Plan is designed for Grade Band Range 3- 6 Language Arts students. Students will write a Personal Narrative. This Remote Learning Plan addresses the following NDE Standard: English Language Arts - Writing It is expected that this Remote Learning Plan will take students 5 days with 45 to 60 minutes for each lesson to complete.Here is the direct link to the Google Doc:Personal Narrative Lesson  

Suggestions and resources for hands-on activities to teach elementary students about rocks and minerals.

This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, explores the basic characteristics of rocks and minerals, the types of rocks, the rock cycle, and the specimens found in the polar regions. Find lessons that allow students to observe rock and mineral specimens, perform classification exercises, and read to develop their content knowledge.

This article assembles free resources from the Rocks and Minerals issue of the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears cyberzine into a unit outline based on the 5E learning cycle framework. Outlines are provided for Grades K-2 and 3-5.

In this resource, you will learn what routines are and how to establish them in your daily schedule, how to decide how much time you spend on a section of your day to increase instructional time, and the importance of including brain breaks throughout the day.

This article reviews the book "Using Science Notebooks in Elementary Classrooms" by Michael Klentschy and provides basic information about the role of notebooks in instruction and assessment.

This article describes how elementary teachers can use modified writer's workshops to help students organize information in their science notebooks.

This performance assessment aligns with NGSS Performance Expectation 4.ESS1.1 and is intended to be used as an interim assessment. These assessments can either be used summatively, as an end of learning activity, or formatively, utilizing student responses to identify next instructional steps.

This article highlights science lessons about mammals, mammal diversity and adaptations, and polar mammals. Literacy integrations and alignment to national standards are included.

This article provides geography lessons to teach elementary students about the polar regions. Literacy extensions are included for each lesson.