1. Teacher Guide
This lesson is designed to teach kids to ask a critical thinking question that you can’t just put into a search box to solve. To do that, we encourage them with smaller questions that search can help them answer. Make sure that you read the notes for each slide: they not only give you teaching tips but also provide answers and hints so you can help the kids if they are having trouble.
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This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: English Language Arts
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST E Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from or supports the argument presented.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

2. Describe the circumpolar community and how they obtain resources.
© Bill Young/Danita Delimont
Having this up as kids come in is a great settle down activity. You can start class by asking them for thoughts about the picture or about ideas on how they could solve the question of the day.

3. Describe the circumpolar community and how they obtain resources.
In the insanely cold winter months, only 55 residents stay in Esperanza Base. It’s a scientific research facility on Antarctica’s Trinity Peninsula, owned and operated by the Argentinian army.
Esperanza really is a functioning “town” that includes a school, parish, and living quarters for those who stay at the base to conduct long-term studies on the local biology, geology, and seismology of the Antarctic.
Completed in 1952, Esperanza, like many cities, has a motto: "Permanencia, un acto de sacrificio" ("Permanence, an act of sacrifice"). At least part of that sacrifice must include accepting that you will never go barefoot outside, even in summer.
Depending on time, you can either have students read this silently to themselves, have one of them read out loud, or read it out loud yourself.

4. Describe the circumpolar community and how they obtain resources.1
Web Search
Where are the circumpolar regions? 2
How many people live in circumpolar regions? 3
How are resources delivered to circumpolar regions? 4
What are resources or services that are challenging for people to obtain in circumpolar communities? 5
Thinking
What are possible solutions to providing better medical care and other services for residents in circumpolar regions?
There are a couple of ways to use this slide, depending on how much technology you have in your classroom. You can have students find answers on their own, divide them into teams to have them do all the questions competitively, or have each team find the answer to a different question and then come back together. If you’re doing teams, it is often wise to assign them roles (one person typing, one person who is in charge of sharing back the answer, etc.)

5. Describe the circumpolar community and how they obtain resources.5
Minutes
You can adjust this based on how much time you want to give kids. If a group isn’t able to answer in 5 minutes, you can give them the opportunity to update at the end of class or extend time.

6. Describe the circumpolar community and how they obtain resources.1
Web Search
Where are the circumpolar regions? 2
How many people live in circumpolar regions? 3
How are resources delivered to circumpolar regions? 4
What are resources or services that are challenging for people to obtain in circumpolar communities? 5
Thinking
What are possible solutions to providing better medical care and other services for residents in circumpolar regions?
You can ask the students verbally or let one of them come up and insert the answer or show how they got it. This way, you also have a record that you can keep as a class and share with parents, others.

7. Describe the circumpolar community and how they obtain resources.1
Web Search
Where are the circumpolar regions?
(Possible Search Queries: circumpolar regions, circumpolar, circumpolar location, circumpolar residents, circumpolar map)
Sources
Arctic Circle:
The circumpolar regions are the areas near the north and south pole.
circumpolar
[ ˌsərkəmˈpōlər ]
ADJECTIVE
situated around or inhabiting one of the earth's poles:
"the eight circumpolar countries met in 1991"
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8. Describe the circumpolar community and how they obtain resources.2
Web Search
How many people live in circumpolar regions?
(Possible Search Queries: circumpolar population, circumpolar population -"polar bears" human)
Sources
Grida:
NCBI:
Wikimedia Commons:
Arctic Center:
In 2008 the population was approximately 4 million in the Arctic region. Actic center estimates 13.1 million people living in the Arctic North. Arctic Center also estimates around 4 million.

9. Describe the circumpolar community and how they obtain resources.3
Web Search
How are resources delivered to circumpolar regions?
(Possible Search Queries: circumpolar health care, circumpolar resources, circumpolar living, delivering goods to circumpolar, living in circumpolar)
Sources
International Union for Circumpolar Health:
Arctic Centere:
World Wildlife Foundation:
Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada:
Arctic Institute:
Circumpolar Problems: Habitat, Economy, and Social Relations in the Arctic:
Center for Circumpolar Studies:
Delivering goods and obtaining services such as healthcare is a challenge in the circumpolar areas. Aid organizations will bring in food, medical supplies and other goods. Since supplies are difficult to get in for many areas of the circumpolar regions residents must be resourceful with the resources available to them.

10. Describe the circumpolar community and how they obtain resources.4
Web Search
What are resources or services that are challenging for people to obtain in circumpolar communities?
(Possible Search Queries: circumpolar challenges, circumpolar resource challenges, circumpolar living)
Sources
Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada:
There is a severe lack of food, fuel, and medical supplies in some circumpolar regions.

11. Describe the circumpolar community and how they obtain resources.5
Thinking
What are possible solutions to providing better medical care and other services for residents in circumpolar regions?
Student answers will vary. Students should make references to other humanitarian aid efforts. Additionally students will want to reference solutions for other rural communities such as the rain forest and contrast the unique problems that the circumpolar region has that would make those solutions viable or not.

12. Describe the circumpolar community and how they obtain resources.
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.