Polar Bears: Teacher Resources, Books, Posters, Games...

Welcome to the Polar Bear Teacher's Helper! Here we've found some great teacher resources for school or home, including links, posters, games, activities, and books...and put them in one place! We hope these ideas will be helpful!

Polar Bears, Softcover By Zoobooks What color is a polar bear? The answers are unexpected: its skin is black, its fur made up of colorless hollow 'tubes.' Find out how these giants of the north hunt, raise their young, and keep warm in an incredibly forbidding environment. Softcover. Zoobooks.

2 Great Preschool Polar Bear Activities

In the United States, Polar Bears have become synonymous with Coca-Cola advertisements. We watch cute polar bears have parties and fun while drinking Coca-Cola soda in the Arctic. Preschool children need to understand that there is much more to polar bears and that they don't actually drink Coca-Cola!

This article provides two preschool polar bear activities that will encourage preschool children to learn more about polar bears which include the facts and not the creative advertisements of Madison Avenue. Read more >>

Online Resources

NOAA: Polar Bears in Recent Decades - essay from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, AK. Plus, links to polar bear photo galleries.

Polar Bears International - This site includes: polar bear FAQ, polar bear photos, polar bear web cam, and tools for teachers.

Education World - Easy and fun activities for teaching about animal camouflage and why polar bears are white.

Polar Bear Posters

Polar Bear Family Mini Poster
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Polar Bear Games & Activities

Polar Bear Jig Saw Puzzle

Printable Polar Bear Coloring Pages

Printable Polar Bear Crossword Puzzle

Printable Polar Bear Word Search

Recommended Books:

Bears By Emma Helbrough / Usborne Bright color illustrations, clear photographs, and a vocabulary elementary kids can handle make this an excellent learning tool as well as an exciting book of facts to read. Learn about cubs, how bears fish and play, and how they swim. Includes a glossary, parent helps, and related websites to visit.

Oso Polar, Oso Polar, &#191 Qu&#233 Es Ese Ruido? / Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? (Spanish) By Bill Martin Jr / Henry Holt and Company Two of the most respected names in children's education and illustration team up again after 25 years. Through a parade of gorgeously painted zoo animals, preschoolers learn precisely the sounds those animals make. Full color Recommended for ages 2 to 5. Dos de los m&#225s respetados nombres en educaci&#243n e ilustraci&#243n infantil trabajan juntos nuevamente, despu&#233s de 25 a&#241os. A trav&#233s de la par&#225bola de hermosas ilustraciones de animales de zool&#243gico, los pre-escolares aprender&#225n sobre los sonidos que hacen dichos animales. A todo color. Recomendado para las edades de 2 a 5 a&#241os.

Polar Bear Son: An Inuit Tale By Dabcovich / Houghton-mifflin Young children will be enthralled with this tale of an elderly Inuit woman and her adopted polar-bear son. Told through charming text and illustrations, the vast space of the Arctic landscape and the moving love between a mother and her replacement-son is beautifully conveyed in The Polar Bear Son. 37 pages, softcover.

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? By Bill Martin / Henry Holt and Company Two of the most respected names in children's education and illustration team up again after 25 years. Through a parade of gorgeously painted zoo animals, preschoolers learn precisely the sounds those animals make. Full color Recommended for ages 2 to 5.

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