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Arctic Animals Books for Kids

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You know we love learn about animals, and we have enjoyed learning about arctic animals. We watch documentaries all the time, but we always love reading books about animals. Arctic Animals books are a great way to learn about these great animals that live in such a cold, and far away place.

Arctic Animals Books

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I don’t buy every book that we use in our homeschool. We are big fans borrowing materials from the library, which is always our first step in reading books. I do not have enough room in my house for the books we currently have, let alone all the books that I wish we could own.

Finding Books on Arctic Animals

The library is going to have, at least in our case, more books on a subject than I was planning to check out because they aren’t all brand new but often they are really great resources.

Books we often look for are:

  • Usborne
  • Eyewitness
  • National Geographic Kids
  • DK Books

Arctic Animals Books for Kids

You know we love learn about animals, and we have enjoyed learning about arctic animals. We watch documentaries all the time, but we always love reading books about these animals.

Polar Animals (Scholastic Reader Level 1)

Fabulous photographs, eye-catching design, and simple rhyming text constitute this Level 1 reader about the fascinating lives of polar animals!

Snow Babies (Scholastic Reader, Level 2)

Learn all about baby polar bears, penguins, and more cute and cuddly animals who live in the snow in this level 2 Scholastic nonfiction reader.

Amazing Arctic Animals (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3)

Why does an Arctic hare have tiny ears? To conserve heat! How does a walrus feel around for food on the bottom of the sea? With its whiskers! Learn cool facts about the arctic fox, the beluga whale, the snowy owl, and more in this book.

Brrr!: A Book About Polar Animals Level 3

Lively, full-color photos bring these animals to life as detailed text provides informative facts about how these diverse creatures, such as the humpback whale and the arctic fox, live in their natural habitat.

Animals of the Arctic Tundra: Polar Region Wildlife

What are the animals that survive the cold in the arctic tundra? Open the pages of this educational book to find out! The pictures included in this book, accompanied by simple texts, will definitely pull your child towards learning.

Arctic Animals (Cold Feet)

Children love to learn about animals! The reason for this is because there are many types of animals in the world that look adorable, can be seen in the wild, and also kept as pets.

The Coldest Tundra! | Arctic & Antarctica Animal Wildlife | Children's Polar Regions Books

Animals are amazing! There are some that can survive the hottest deserts while others can live in the coldest parts of the Earth. This book will give information on the Arctic and Antarctica animal wildlife.

Eye Wonder: Arctic and Antarctic

Young readers will take a journey to the Arctic and Antarctic regions with this adventurous book of over 100 full-color photographs and fun stickers. Children's imaginations will transport them to icy places where they’ll meet the local people and animals who live there.

Eyewitness: Arctic & Antarctic (Eyewitness Books)

Arctic & Antarctic Animals Book

All About Arctic Animals – 11 Different Animals – Google Slide Presentation

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Mini Unit Study on Arctic Animal

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My kids love animals, I love animals so focusing on homeschool lessons around animals is easy and welcoming, and something I know we’re all going to enjoy doing. This one is focusing on Antarctic and Arctic animal. I think we have such an interest in the colder climate animals after living through cold Saskatchewan winters ourselves.

All About Arctic Animals

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This is designed more for younger learners, say grades k-2. But the beauty of homeschooling is that you can use a resource for your kids that are older than the recommended ages just by changing simple things. Like the books you read.

This mini unit study includes a slideshow presentation in PowerPoint and Google Slides too.

I have included two different reading list from Amazon: one for early readers and one for more advanced readers, or older kids needing more information.

All About Arctic Animals – 11 Different Animals – Google Slide Presentation

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We did this fun Arctic Animals science experiment a few years ago for the first time and loved learning from it. There is a lot of build up with you are about to stick your hand into a bowl of icy water, even when you know you aren’t going to feel the cold.

There are a lot ways you can take this mini study in your homeschool as a way to start learning about animals.

Learn about:

  • Arctic Hare
  • Beluga Whale
  • Caribou
  • Moose
  • Penguin
  • Polar Bear
  • Seal
  • Walrus
  • Arctic Fox
  • Snowy Owl
  • Arctic Wolf
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Arctic Animal Reading List

Arctic Animal Documentaries to Watch

Netflix

  • Night on Earth – Shot in the Dark
  • Hold the Dark

Amazon Prime

  • Antarctica: A Year on Ice
  • Wildest Antarctica
  • Explore the Arctic
  • Under an Arctic Sky
  • White Wolves
  • Wonders of the Arctic
  • Living with Polar Bears

Curiosity Stream

  • Polar Bears
  • Survival in the Ice Kingdom: Polar Bears
  • Penguin Central
Arctic Animals

More Movies & TV Shows for You to Check Out

Netflix

  • Happy Feet (Cartoon)

Amazon Prime

  • Inui

Arctic Animal TV Series to Watch

  • 72 of the Cutest Animals – Episodes 10 & 11
  • Doctor Oakley – Yukon Vet
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I have animal lovers here who have been loving our science curriculum work right now, it’s about animals around the world. This week we learned more about arctic animals in the Arctic and Antarctic. We are going to experience just how these animals stay warm.

Arctic Animal Science Experiment

Arctic Animals – Science Experiment

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What child isn’t wondering how arctic animals stay warm considering we make our kids wear layers of clothing in the winter and the animals just have fur.

We learned how they live in the cold, how they survive the freezing cold temperatures. Considering my oldest likes to sit down and watch animal documentaries, she loves what we are learning right now. This are some amazing live cameras you can check out to take virtual field trip to the Arctic.

Right now in our BookShark Science curriculum we are learning animals from the Usborne World of Animals book.

My kids know what cold is, we don’t shy away from going out in the cold Saskatchewan winters. But arctic cold is something completely different.

This is a great arctic animals for kids activity to demonstrate how penguins, polar bears, and other arctic animals stay warm with their layers of fat we grabbed a package of Crisco (vegetable shortening) from the store and did up a bowl of icy cold water.

What you need:

  • ice cubes
  • cold water
  • shortening
  • baggies
  • latex gloves – optional

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What we did to learn how animals stay warm in icy water:

We put a large bowl of water into the freezer to let it get extra cold, and then added the ice cubes.

We put a bare hand into the icy water first, just to get an idea of how cold the water really was.

The original plan was to wear latex gloves, but I couldn’t find them locally, so we simply stuck our hand inside a Ziploc sandwich bag. A bar of shortening wrapped about the hand, and then another sandwich bag on covering the shortening, to keep it from falling off in the bowl.

Arctic Animals - Science Experiment

It looks crazy, but worked out great. And best of all for this Momma, clean up was basically non-existent because we just had to slip our hand out of the baggie and toss the whole thing in the garbage.

Arctic Animal Science Experiment

Arctic Animals Science Experiment

Yield: 2

This week we learned more about arctic animals in the Arctic and Antarctic. We are going to experience just how these animals stay warm.

Materials

  • ice cubes
  • cold water
  • shortening

Tools

  • baggies
  • large bowl

Instructions

    1. We put a large bowl of water into the freezer to let it get extra cold, and then added the ice cubes.
    2. We put a bare hand into the icy water first, just to get an idea of how cold the water really was.
    3. The original plan was to wear latex gloves, but I couldn't find them locally, so we simply stuck our hand inside a Ziploc sandwich bag. A bar of shortening wrapped about the hand, and then another sandwich bag on covering the shortening, to keep it from falling off in the bowl.

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Category: Experiments

Kids thoughts on this animal science experiment:

Gauge did think I was crazy when I was covering his hand in shortening, in a bag. And then asked him to put his hand in the water, though he wanted to do it first.

Arctic Animals - Science Experiment

He loved it once he realized his hand wasn’t getting wet or cold. All three took turns doing this and said their hand stayed dry and warm.

Arctic Animals - Science Experiment
Arctic Animal Science Experiment

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