If Polar Bears Disappeared by Williams 20 Book Extension Activities NO PREP

This resource is perfect for the upper elementary classroom or school library. You will have 20 unique activities PLUS a vocabulary packet to use with your upper elementary students. You can pick and choose which activities work best for your class and there is plenty of room for differentiating.

This resource was made to accompany the book If Polar Bears Disappeared written and illustrated by Lily Williams.

This resources will allow students to be creative while challenging students to use skills in reading comprehension, compare and contrast, making predictions, drawing conclusions, and creativity.

Summary of Story (From Amazon):

The freezing ecosystem in the far north of the globe is home to many different kinds of animals. They can be

Strong, like a walrus

Tough, like a lemming

Resilient, like an arctic fox

But no arctic animal is as iconic as the polar bear.

Unfortunately, the endangered polar bear is threatened with extinction due to rapid climate change that is causing the ice where it hunts/lives to melt at an alarming rate. If Polar Bears Disappeared uses accessible, charming art to explore what would happen if the sea ice melts, causing the extinction of polar bears, and how it would affect environments around the globe.

Activities Include:

• Packet Cover Page
• Cover Story Pre-Reading Activity
• Polar Bear KWL
• Making Connections Before Reading
• Let’s Take a Picture Walk (2 Activities)
• I Wonder…  Formulating Questions
• Comprehension Questions and Answer Key
• The World With and Without Polar Bears Comparison
• Making Connections – Text to Self
• Making Connections – Text to Text
• Making Connections – Text to World
• What do you think? Writing Activity
• Making a Plan to Help Polar Bears
• A,B,C’s of Polar Bears
• If Polar Bears Disappeared 3-2-1
• Word Search
• Book Review (3 Options)
• Vocabulary Packet (Make a copy of cover and each page for every student, staple together) ALL DEFINITIONS CAN BE FOUND IN THE BOOK’S GLOSSARY