Did you
know...the temperature at the North Pole averages -20 to -30 degrees
in the winter and only nears the melting point in the months we call summer? I guess we should feel lucky we live in the United States!
Here, in winter, snow and ice cover much of our land (except if you
call Florida your home, like I do) and the seas in the north are
choked by ice, yet most of us never see 30 degrees below
zero!
WinterWeb is
an interactive site using the cold of winter as the focus of
interdisciplinary activities. Students will become involved in
collaborative research activities, exchanging of "cool" ideas
and knowledge. Each activity has a subject focus, coordination to
national standards when applicable, and a call for collaboration via e-mail. The call for collaboration will involve classes sharing data
and experiences about places in the cold or new things they have
learned through research.
Read the
activities below and decide if you would like to have your class
share data to help build skills.
Select any activity
by clicking on the Activity link:
Activity
1 -
learn about the world's coldest continent, Antarctica, the South Pole (reading,
geography, science, art)
Activity
2 -
learn about animals of the cold (science,
reading, writing)
Activity
3 -
learn about the other pole, the Arctic Circle (geography,
science)
Activity
4 -
learn about the North Pole explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew
Henson. (social
studies, language arts, reading)
