Arctic vs Antarctic
Know that the Arctic (North Pole) and Antarctic (South Pole) are very different — the Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land where people and polar bears live, while the Antarctic is a huge ice-covered continent surrounded by ocean where penguins live but no people live permanently
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Can your child explain the big difference between the two poles — that the Arctic is frozen sea with land around it, while the Antarctic is a frozen continent with sea around it?
Know that the Arctic (North Pole) and Antarctic (South Pole) are very different — the Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land where people and polar bears live, while the Antarctic is a huge ice-covered continent surrounded by ocean where penguins live but no people live permanently
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- State that the Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land, while the Antarctic is a continent covered in ice surrounded by ocean
- Explain that polar bears live in the Arctic and penguins live in the Antarctic, not the other way around
- Know that people (like the Inuit) live in the Arctic but nobody lives permanently in Antarctica
“Can your child explain the big difference between the two poles — that the Arctic is frozen sea with land around it, while the Antarctic is a frozen continent with sea around it?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Polar Regions
- Age range
- Ages 5–7