A polar bear is a large, white bear found in the Arctic and nearby areas.

A reindeer is a type of deer that lives in the northern parts of Europe, Asia and North America.

A walrus is a large marine mammal that lives in Arctic seas.

The Arctic fox is a small white fox that lives in the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

Climate change is a large-scale and long-term change in the planet’s climate, including weather patterns and average temperatures.

Arctic wildlife

Geography

The world's cold places

Locating the North and South Poles

The North Pole and the Arctic

The South Pole and the Antarctic

Antarctic wildlife

Living in the Arctic

Living in the Antarctic

It then leads on to examine this same scale but by investigating hot places in 'Hot places: What is it like near the Equator?'. This unit also links to future understanding of land use and settlement, and builds on Earth Geometry by establishing familiarity with the Polar Circles here and with the Equator in 'Hot places: What is it like near the Equator?'.

links to work done in and around the school ground on weather and develops the idea of temperature variations and extreme cold on a global scale. 

This unit explores the North and South Poles through their locations, climates, landscapes, wildlife and ways of life. Pupils learn to compare the Arctic and Antarctic using maps, images and geographical vocabulary to describe features of cold environments.

Cold places: what is it like at the North and South Poles?

Which of these would you **not** find in the Arctic?

Which of these does **not** help animals survive in cold places?

Which of these is **not** a polar bear feature?

long-term and large-scale change in the planet’s climate

Because there is a bridge going across it.

What happens to the frozen sea ice in summer? 

Arctic wildlife

Lesson outcome