Antarctica Storytime – Elementary Library Lesson

Description

FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS ANTARCTICA STORYTIME

• Recommended for: Grades K-3
• Lesson Duration: 1-2 library lessons (about 50 minutes total)
• Formats: PPT, Google Slides, PDF
• Editable: YES, all text is editable

***Please note that this presentation is designed to complement a read-aloud. The actual read-aloud story comes from you! I cannot include a recorded read-aloud due to copyright restrictions.

THIS ANTARCTICA STORYTIME INCLUDES

• 40-slide PPT + Google™ Slides
• List of 20 recommended Antarctica read-alouds (1 page PDF)
• 2 differentiated Scavenger Hunt Activities + Answer Key (3 pages)
• Take-Home Extension Activities (2 pages)
• Prep, set up, tips (6 pages, PDF)
• Detailed, pre-filled, editable lesson plan; includes CC, TEKS, and AASL Standards (2 pages)

ANTARCTICA SLIDESHOW PRESENTATION INCLUDES

• Original storytime song lyrics
• sign language link: penguin
• Antarctica is one of seven continents, is covered in ice, has land under the ice
• summer and winter in Antarctica
• Antarctica animals–orcas, seals, blue whales, penguins, sea spiders
• Do people live in Antarctica?
• cold weather idiom — “dead of winter”
• Antarctica idiom — “penguin suit”
• The South Pole
• Why polar bears will never eat penguins in nature
• Mount Erebus (active volcano in Antarctica)
• 1 Would-You-Rather
• word of the week: ice shelf and continent
• All slides are illustrated with real photos and colorful clipart.

ANTARCTICA SCAVENGER HUNT ACTIVITIES

• differentiated (one is images-only; one is images + text)
• 2 pages, PDF
• Scavenger Hunt #1 is an images-only hunt. Students can complete this scavenger hunt without reading the text on the slides.
• Scavenger Hunt #2 includes both images and text. This one is for the students who are able to read the Part II slideshow. This scavenger hunt includes images and questions about the information in the slideshow.
• Scavenger Hunt #2 includes answer key

LIST OF RECOMMENDED READS

• printable list of Antarctica books for Grades K-3
• most are informational picture books
• total of 20 titles
• titles are editable, so you can customize the titles for your classroom or library
• All titles were hand-selected by a veteran school librarian for quality, diversity, positive reviews, and currency.
• Every book on the list received at least one positive review on Titlewave. Several also received starred reviews and/or book awards.

TAKE-HOME EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

I am so excited about this new addition to my Library Lessons! You can download an example (Spiders) here. This Antarctica Storytime includes a similar Take-Home Extension Activities handout, except it’s Antarctica-themed.

Students love sharing their knowledge! With this 2-page Antarctica Take-Home Extension Activities Handout, students can:

• quiz siblings, friends, and family members about some of the Antarctica facts they learned in the scrolling slides (Part II)
• prepare an Antarctica-style icy pop snack
• read some recommended Antarctica picture books
• review Antarctica vocabulary words from the lesson
• learn to draw a cute whale using simple, step-by-step directions
• remember how to sign “penguin” in American Sign Language
• complete a penguin maze
• 2 pages, text is editable in PPT, Google Slides, or PDF

ACCESSIBILITY

All parts of this Antarctica Storytime are optimized for readability. Here’s how:

• uses only two fonts (Arial and KG Blank Space Solid)
• Arial font is one of 8 accessibility fonts recommended by the British Dyslexia Association. It is also pre-loaded on most school computers.
• nearly all text is black on a solid white background
• no cursive fonts, fancy fonts, or random capitalizations are included
• body text line spacing is 1.5
• minimal text on each slide
• lots of white space on each slide
• scavenger hunt includes two versions. One is images only and requires no reading. The other is for students who can read short text well.

IMAGES

As a certified librarian, I am careful to use only legally-acquired images in my resources. Librarians can be assured that:

• All images in this resource were purchased for commercial use from TPT or Unsplash, or they are in the public domain (i.e., Wikimedia Commons).
• Every image is credited in the Slide Notes area of each slide.
• All images in this resource adhere closely to the artist or photographer’s terms of use. This is why they are all locked into the background and not editable.

In addition, all images in this resource:

• are high-quality, full-color images
• complement the subject and text of each slide

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