Teacher Page

Student Contract:

A sample student contract is provided to help students understand their roll as a group member and the consequence of not following the contract.  Sample Contract.

Comic Book Information:

A comic book of four to five pages will be challenging enough for some students.  Extremely motivated students may do as many as eight pages.

Comic book templates in PDF format are provided for use with your students.  These serve as an easy way for them to plan their work and the amount of information and art that they plan on using.

Some helpful hints for preparing the comic book:

The only rule to establish in the creation of the comic books is that every panel must contain explanatory text.

Comic Book Templates:

Polar Links:

Antarctica maps landforms weather antarctic circle and Information page
Arctic maps
ARCUS Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S.
British Antarctic Survey - Homepage
Discovering Antarctica - teaching and learning resources on Antarctica
EducaPoles - - Education - Educational website International Polar Foundation
International Polar Foundation - - Arctic, Antarctic, Climate change, Sciences, Education
IPY 2007-2008
PASSPORT TO ANTARCTICA
Polar Discovery Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Polar Expeditions, polar explorer, Arctic, Antarctic, South Pole, North Pole - International Polar Foundation
POLAR-PALOOZA - Home
SCAR Antarctic Composite Gazetteer
Sea Ice Overview
Antarctica: the farthest place close to home - AMNH
TEA Index
Unitied States IPY
Teachers & Researchers Exploring & Collaborating
U.S. Antarctic Program Welcome to the USAP Portal
Xpeditions @ nationalgeographic.com

Standards Information:

PDF files of the National Science Standards
PDF file of the TEKS

National Science Standards Grades 9-12: 

National Science Standards - http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/

Texas Science Standards - http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter112/index.html

Science Benchmarks - http://www.project2061.org/publications/bsl/online/bolintro.htm

Science for All Americans - http://www.project2061.org/publications/sfaa/online/sfaatoc.htm

Online searchable index of the Science Benchmarks - http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/benchmark_index.htm

GAS website provides links to all state standards - http://www.geosociety.org/educate/standards.htm