Polar Bear Fact Books

At this school, each year each class adopts an animal from the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF). Each student brings in $2 and as a class, they vote on which endangered animal they would like to adopt. WWF has many endangered species which can be adopted, and when you adopt one (typically around $40 CAN) you also get a cute stuffie of the animal you chose to help. This year, my class voted to adopt the Polar Bear and decided on the name CandyCane. As a little surprise for the students, My teacher and I also decided to adopt the Female Arctic Researcher whom the class named Ms. Weather.

Since CandyCane and Ms. Weather have arrived, the class has been learning lots about polar bears and the arctic so I asked them to make a Polar Bear fact booklet. Each student choose three of their favorite facts about polar bears, put them into a sentence and drew a picture to accompany each. The students did a great job researching facts and making their books, they are now posted with out Polar bear bulleton board in the allway outside our class room:

Here are some of the intersting facts we learned about the polar bear:

• They have black skin and tounge

• Baby polar bears are called cubs

• They mostly eat seals

• Polar bears are mammals

• Their scientific name is “Ursus Maritimus”

• They live in dens in the Arctic

• They have belly buttons

• 66% of the polar bear population lives in Canada

• The average polar bear lives to 17 years in the wild

• Polar Bears have webbed feet

• Because of how much time they spend in water, polar bears are considered marine animals

• The Polar bear is the largest member of the Ursa (bear) family

• At birth, polar bear cubs are 12-14 inhces long and weigh 1 pound

• Polar bears have 42 teeth

• Polar bears can reach speeds up to 40 kph on land and 10 kph in water

• 10 cm of blubber under the skin keep Polar bears warm

• When standing on its hind legs, an adult male polar bear may reach more than 10 feet tall

• Polar bears can sniff out prey from up to 1.6km away

Here is the lesson plan I created for this activity:

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