Summary The lesson focuses on the polar climate zone. Students will answer a question through the creation of their own flipped classroom video, “What are the characteristics of polar climate regions, and what causes of these characteristics?” In this activity, the students will use technology, and internet resources to create their own flipped classroom video about polar climate regions. The research, screenwriting, videotaping and explanation and editing will give students a chance to learn meaningfully about the polar region. The students will be required to recall facts about the Polar Regions as well as information about plants and animals in Polar Regions. In analyzing why plants and animals from this region have the characteristics they do, they will enhance their understanding of Polar Regions as well as plant and animal adaptations to their environment.
Learning Objectives 1. Students will apply the characteristics of climate regions to the Polar Climate Zone. 2. Students will identify where polar climate regions exist.
Standards Weather and climate are influenced by interactions involving sunlight, the ocean, the atmosphere, ice, landforms, and living things. These interactions vary with latitude, altitude and local and regional geography, all which can affect oceanic and atmospheric flow patterns. Because these patterns are so complex, weather can be predicted only probabilistically. A Framework for K-12 Science Education, ESS2.D: Weather and Climate, Grade 8 Endpoint.