The Polar Regions are the coldest places on earth. The land and the sea are frozen most of the year. Still, many kinds of animals survive in this climate.

If you would like to learn more about Polar Animals, follow the links on this pathfinder. It will help you find information in your school library media center, on the Internet, and in the community about Polar animals.

 Print Resources-Books and Magazines

There are several excellent books about Polar Animals. A few of the books are listed below. To locate more books, use the suggested key words and phrases to search the online library catalog.

NON-FICTION BOOKS

599.74 BIE Biel, Timothy L. Polar bears. Mankato, Minn. : Creative Education, c1991.

599.7 BRA PB Brandenburg, Jim. Scruffy : a wolf finds his place in the pack. New York : Walker , 1996.

E 591.98 CRO Crow, Sandra Lee, 1948-. Penguins and polar bears : animals of the ice and snow. [ Washington, D.C. ] : National Geographic Society, c1985.

591.98 KHA Khanduri, Kamini. Polar wildlife. Universal ed. Tulsa, Okla. :EDC/Usborne, 1993, c1992.

919.8 LIV Liversidge, Douglas , 1913-. The first book of the Arctic . New York , : F. Watts, [1967].

591.998 POW Powers, Alfred. Animals of the Arctic in action and adventure. New York , : D. McKay Co., [1965].

577.5 TAY PB Taylor, Barbara. Pole to pole. 1st ed. for the U.S., its territories and dependencies, Canada and the Philippine Republic. Hauppauge, N.Y. : Barron's Educational Series,1999.

591.75 WAD PB Wadsworth, Ginger. Tundra discoveries. Watertown , Mass :Charlesbridge, c1999.

FICTION BOOKS

E HOS Hoshino, Michio, 1952-. Nanook's gift. San Francisco, CA :Cadence Books, c1996.

Online Resources--Internet Sites

The Web sites listed on this page have been previewed and selected for this topic. If additional information is needed, use the suggested key words and phrases to search the Internet.

Polar Pairs (Matching Game) http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/game/

Arctic Wildlife Portfolio http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/wildlife.html

Arctic Refuge Coloring Book - http://earthday.wilderness.org/arctic/color_book.htm

Arctic Animal Printouts-Enchanted Learning http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/arcticanimals.shtml

Wild Arctic Activities http://www.seaworld.org/arctic/

Discovery Channel-Arctic Animals http://www.exn.ca/ArcticAnimals/home.cfm

Arctic Animals Quiz-Enchanted Learning http://www.enchantedlearning.com/classroom/quiz/Arctic.shtml

Arctic Animals Home (1998 ThinkQuest Junior Project) http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3500/

Videos, CD-ROM, Laserdiscs, etc.

Our ESD Media Center has the following multimedia resources on your topic:

Cheechako's First Day (41055)
Physical Color; 8 min
Copyrighted 1970
Distributor Britannica (0097)
Audience Kindergarten, Primary, Intermediate (KPI)
Synopsis By viewing a polar bear cub's first swimming lesson, viewers see the gentle ways a mother polar bear cares for and trains her young. Shows how these wild animals adapt to their environment at Washington Park Zoo in Portland, Oregon .
Subjects Animals; Bears; Children's Literature; Zoos

Title Penguin (82557)
Physical Color; 10 min
Copyrighted 1999
Distributor Lucerne Films (0178)
Audience Primary, Intermediate (PI)
Series Nature Watch Digest (1274)
Synopsis The cold oceans in the Southern Hemisphere are home to 18 species of penguin. Filmed in the wild and in an aquarium in Japan , this program examines some of the ways the penguin is adapted for life in frigid temperatures. Viewers watch its flightless body waddle comically over ice and snow but glide effortlessly through the water and observe courting and nest-building rituals. In the crowded breeding colony, each fmaily has its own small territory which is guarded tenaciously, the real measure of the cold climate success of this amazing bird.

Title Polar Bear (43763)
Physical Color; 11 min
Copyrighted 1986
Distributor Bullfrog (0046)
Audience Primary, Intermediate (PI)
Synopsis A visit to Tuktoyatktuk in the Northwest Territories offers a close-up view of a unique polar bear tagging program being done by the Canadian Wildlife Services. Based on the findings of their tagging program, scientists are studying the impact of encroaching civilization on polar bear populations.

Dewey Decimal Numbers to Browse

If you want to browse the shelves in the library to locate information about Polar Animals, look for these numbers:

•  599.74
• 591.98
• 577.5
• 919.8

Keywords and Phrases for Searching

Do you need additional information? Try using these words and phrases to search Magazine Index, the library online catalog, CD-ROM or print encyclopedias or the World Wide Web:

• Arctic
• Polar
• mammal
• tundra

Information Literacy EALRs and Other Resources for Teachers

Science: Essential Academic Learning Requirement #1;
Science: Essential Academic Learning Requirement #5;
Social Studies-Geography:Essential Academic Learning Requirement #3