Teach your students all about arctic animal adaptations with this fun and hands-on science lesson and lab. This lesson includes vocabulary words and definitions, educational videos, detailed slides about different animal adaptations, a virtual field trip to the arctic, a live penguin cam, instructions to a science lab, and lab worksheets. Students will conduct an experiment to see how blubber works by making a blubber glove and using it in ice cold water!

You will need:

• Large bowl
• Ice
• Cold water
• Tape
• 4 zip top sandwich bags
• Thermometer (optional)
• Crisco or Vegetable shortening
• Spatula
• Towel