At-Home Activities: Polar Quest - Special Equipment
November 2-6

Workshop Class Activities
Craft - Igloo
Key Points – Polar Survival
Collaborative – Magnetic North
Language Arts – Drinkable Snow - writing instructions
Math/Logic – Map Scale
Prepare for Adventure – Fire Safety
Big Activity - What Makes Seasons?
Movement - Acting
At-Home Activities
Materials
• Various fiction and non-fiction books that relate to the poles
• notebook or lined paper
• pencil
• paper map
• large paper
• measuring tape
• ruler
• blank game board
• game pieces such as Legos or coins
• game cards (included, or make your own)
Reading
Various fiction and non-fiction books that relate to the poles
Writing
Copywork
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has yet been devised." - Cherry-Garrard
“If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.” - Andrew Denton
Language arts lesson
Ordinal number words are words representing position or rank in a sequential order. These are words like, “first”, “second”, and "third". They may be written with numerals and letter suffixes: 1st, 2nd or 2d, 3rd or 3d, 4th, 11th, 21st, 101st, 477th, etc. See more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_numeral
Writing Activity
Write instructions on how to do something such as going trick-or-treating, wrapping a present, or making a sandwich. Use ordinal numbers and include illustrations.
Journaling
Journal prompt: “My favorite cartoon character is… I like him/her because...”
Math
Math Concept
Maps are compressed versions of the real world. This means that a large piece of land is recreated onto a smaller piece of paper. The relationship between the real world size of a geographic feature and its representative feature on a map is known as scale. Scale is often represented as a ratio between the real world size and the size in units on the map. More about map scale: https://www.geographyrealm.com/map-scale/