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EducaPoles
Site on the polar environment ranges over broad variety of topics.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8


http://www.educapoles.org/

	CONTENT: This site from the International Polar Foundation (IPL) offers information and materials for teaching about the polar environment and climate change for students 9-13 years of age, including teaching suggestions, animations, and comic strips.
	SITE DESIGN: The top navigation bar leads to the main areas of the site. Links to the multimedia comic book are on the main page. Users can adjust the font size of the site and it is available in French as well as English.
	REVIEW: EducaPoles explores the environment of the Polar Regions and climate change. Students will enjoy the interactive comic book "The migration of the Ibanes" that investigates climatic phenomena like floods and their ecological impact, and takes students to the Arctic regions to discover the problems being faced there. Accompanying the comic book is a teachers' file for download that includes background information on climate change and sustainable development, objectives, activities, teaching suggestions and a bibliography. Other teaching resources are available, some in French only. A students' file is also available that contains activities and exercises such as discovering the three dimensions of sustainable development, analysis of various situations , role playing and games. The Fun Zone contains animations, pictures and games that can be used as teaching tools and that cover such topics as Polar flora and fauna, climate and climate change, movements of the earth, Polar nights, the global water cycle, Polar exploration, energy, and sustainable development.
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05/05/2006