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Polar environments: Antarctica and the Arctic tundra

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Compare the Arctic and Antarctica, find out how plants and animals survive polar cold, and meet the people who live in and look after the polar regions.

14 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Teach — Two Polar Regions
  5. Teach — Surviving the Cold
  6. I Do
  7. Hinge Check
  8. We Do
  9. Task — Arctic, Antarctica or Both?
  10. Task — Compare the Polar Regions
  11. Self-Check: Tundra Plants
  12. Homework
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