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This article discusses the strategy of using discrepant events in elementary science instruction. It includes links to four video clips of the sun's path in the Arctic or Antarctica.

This article highlights children's literature about weather and climate, the polar regions, and climate change for use in the elementary classroom.

An excellent resource and a teaching guide to use with the book "Winter is Here" by Kevin Henkes. 

It’s baaaack! We have so many more animal trivia ideas, we decided to test your knowledge again!

We have created some helpful clips if you're unable to watch the full video:
1.L.1 How groundhogs survive winter (1 min): https://youtu.be/zd_ijFVIYRE?t=2157
1.L.1 How Galapagos Tortoises survive winter (6 min): https://youtu.be/zd_ijFVIYRE?t=2236
3.L.1 Giraffe Anatomy (3 min): https://youtu.be/zd_ijFVIYRE?t=842
5.L.1 How wood frogs survive winter (1 min): https://youtu.be/zd_ijFVIYRE?t=2679
8.L.1 White-nose Syndrome (1 min): https://youtu.be/zd_ijFVIYRE?t=1850

Animal Encounters:
1. Pogo the Ball Python (3 min): https://youtu.be/zd_ijFVIYRE?t=399
2. Carolina Gopher Frog (4 min): https://youtu.be/zd_ijFVIYRE?t=1541
3. Wallace the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos Tortoise (6 min): https://youtu.be/zd_ijFVIYRE?t=2236

Conservation Efforts:
1. Elephant Collaring (1 min): https://youtu.be/zd_ijFVIYRE?t=842
2. Virgin Island Tree Boa (1 min 15 sec): https://youtu.be/zd_ijFVIYRE?t=1422
3. Carolina Gopher Frog (4 min): https://youtu.be/zd_ijFVIYRE?t=1542
4. Birds on the Marianas Islands (2 min 45 sec): https://youtu.be/zd_ijFVIYRE?t=1138

Ever wonder what animals do in the winter? Join us as we learn some of the strategies animals take to help them survive the cold!

We have added some helpful clips if you're unable to watch the full video:
K.L.1 Hibernation vs. Brumation (1 min): https://youtu.be/NTzXbpacEFE?t=1005
1.L.1 How different animals in different habitats adapt to winter (this theme is carried throughout the whole video. Watching a 5-10 minute segment would cover multiple animals)
4.L.1 How animals adapt to winter (this theme is carried throughout the whole video. Watching a 5-10 minute segment would cover multiple animals)

Animal Encounters:
1. Scutes the Eastern Rat Snake (5 min): https://youtu.be/NTzXbpacEFE?t=1005
2. Darwin the Galapagos Tortoise (7 min): https://youtu.be/NTzXbpacEFE?t=2530