Grades
PreK - 5
Brrr-illiant Books About Polar Bears and Arctic Animals
Teach students all about cold-weather animals with these fiction and nonfiction books for grades PreK-5.
From polar bears to penguins, Arctic animals fascinate young students. This fiction and nonfiction book list is a must-have resource for any Arctic lesson plan. It includes fact-packed nonfiction titles with leveled text and engaging photos, as well as winter and Arctic-themed fiction stories on everything from snowflakes to a baby polar bear looking for a friend. Use these books to bring the animals of the Arctic to life in your classroom.
Take, for example, Scholastic Reader!® Level 1: Polar Animals — a nonfiction book (for grades K-1) about all types of Arctic animals, ranging from walruses to seals! The rhyming text and close-up photography will help your students learn the material while having fun.
There's also Who Would Win?: Polar Bear vs. Grizzly Bear, an educational book that puts these two bears head-to-head in a hypothetical battle to teach kids about animal biology. Through comparing and contrasting, your students can learn about the two bears' hunting skills, sense of smell, speed, and more.
Shop books about polar bears and other arctic animals below! You can find all books and activities at The Teacher Store.
This kindergarten-level introduction to polar bears covers their growth process, behaviors, their Arctic home, and such defining features as their all-white fur.
Photographs and simple text explore the variety of animals that have adapted to life in the Arctic.
This book shares interesting facts about the history, habits, and hatching of penguins.
One keen, clear night, a polar bear cub wakes inside her warm den. Something in the moonlit stillness quietly beckons. What is it? The little cub sets out for the snow and sky and sea and ice, and the moon follows.So begins a magical journey through a starlit world filled with love and wonder. Soothing words and luminous pictures make this nighttime tale as comforting as a goodnight kiss.
Five little penguins slipping on the ice. One fell down-oh, no! Now there are only four penguins left! What will Mother do?
Dive in and learn all about Adélie penguins in the second book in the Could You Ever... series!
This nonfiction book for beginning readers features concise on-level text and full-color photographs about polar bears.
This nonfiction easy reader has simple, rhyming text and close-up photography of polar bears, penguins, walruses, arctic foxes, seals, and more.
What are the polar bears doing?
Polar bear babies wake up, learn to fish, swim, walk on the ice, and run.
With their beautiful white fur and powerful presence, polar bears rule the Arctic.
When a plucky penguin visits, a bear mayor must reconsider his island's exclusivity. "Good fun"-Kirkus
Bundle up and learn about all the animals tough enough to survive some of the coldest conditions on earth, including polar bears, narwhals, and harp seals.
Polar bears and penguins may like cold weather but they live at opposite ends of the Earth. What do these animals have in common and how are they different? You might see them near each other at a zoo but they would never be found in the same habitats in the wild. Compare and contrast these polar animals through stunning photographs.
It's icicle city...when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie to the frozen Arctic. Luckily, a seal hunter on a dogsled lends them warm clothes. Unluckily, they get stuck on cracking ice. Will the giant polar bear save them? Or will Jack and Annie become frozen dinners?
Polar bears can smell a seal through three feet of ice, while grizzlies can smell a dead animal ten miles away. But would this sense of smell matter in a fight? What would happen if a polar bear and a grizzly bear fought each other?
This timely series explores the global effects of the extinction of some of the most well known animals on the planet and how climate change is accelerating the extinction of species.
Through the quirky, humorous, and irreverent approach of this book, kids will enjoy learning about the life of this endangered mammal. With the same engaging approach to nonfiction from the series You Wouldn't Want to Be/You Wouldn't Want to Live Without, each book in this new series features an animal species picked either for its ubiquitous nature or for its level of endangerment.
Did you know that many animals make their homes in the coldest, most barren places on Earth? Meet emperor penguins, arctic foxes, and more.
