Antarctica topic

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The topics are integrated units with activities from several curriculum areas involving a range of thinking and learning skills.

Science

Strand: Making Sense of the Living World
Level: 2-4
Aim: Students will investigate special features of common animals and plants and describe how these help them to stay alive.

Strand: Making Sense of the Physical World.
Level: 2–4
Aim: Investigate and describe their ideas about some commonly experienced physical phenomena to develop their understanding of those phenomena.

Strand: Making Sense of the Planet Earth and Beyond.
Level: 2–4
Aim: Gather and present information about the origins and history of major natural features of the local landscape.

Related activities:
Antarctica
Antarctica map
How cold is cold?
Wrap up
Icebergs
Penguins
Counting penguins
Snow making
Poles apart
Icebergs galore!
Ice cube experiments
Environmental impact

Social Studies
Strand: Place and Environment
Level: 2–4
Aim: How and why people express a sense of belonging to particular places and environments.

Strand: Time, Continuity, and Change
Level: 2–4
Aim: How the ideas and actions of people in the past changed the lives of others.

Related activities:
Antarctica map
Wrap up
Race for the pole
Explorer's journals
The Antarctic Treaty
Webquest
Environmental impact
ThinkQuest

English
Sub strand: Expressive Writing
Achievement objective: Write on a variety of topics, shaping,editing and reworking texts in a range of genres, and using vocabulary and conventions, such as spelling and sentence structure, appropriate to the genre.
Processes: Processing Information,Thinking Critically

Related activities:
Race for the Pole
Explorer's journal
Webquest

Music
Students will use musical elements, instruments, and technologies to improvise and compose simple musical pieces.

Related activitiy:
Musical Antarctica