This article provides ideas, lessons and resources on how elementary teachers can integrate map skills, math, and art into lessons about the geography of the Arctic and Antarctica.

Five lesson plans, complete with videos, primary sources, and document-based questions (DBQ) to encourage students to utilize primary sources and incorporate thinking and writing into daily learning. Topics include: Artifact & Document Analysis, Compare & Contrast, Four Corners/Jigsaw, Graphic Organizers, and PERSIA (Political, Economical, Religious, Social, Intellectual, Artistic).

This article explains how hands-on science activity can support vocabulary development and links to two books and six web sites that provide more information.

This graphic organizer can help students as they explore new vocabulary words. It offers a place for a dictionary definition, as well as a place to practice using the word in a sentence.