Arctic Alive Giant Floor Map

We check out canada s arctic with the aid of a huge floor map and show you some cool arctic research by canadian museum of nature scientists.

Arctic alive giant floor map. This impressive map was coproduced by the museum and. You can go check it out over the holidays and let me tell you. Each circumpolar floor map comes complete with a trunk of additional supplies to further enhance students learning experience. I got to see first hand the impact this map had on students awareness and perception of the arctic.

There is a giant map of the arctic at the museum of nature. Giant floor maps arctic alive. From the cga website. Explore the natural history of canada s arctic.

Maps come in two sizes. 6 5 x 6 5 meters and 7 5 x 7 5 meters. But perception is not always reality. Canadian students now have the chance to walk across the tundra and sea ice captured on a giant floor map that can be rolled out in gyms or classrooms.

Is anchored by a giant floor map measuring 8m x 11m that can be easily rolled out in gyms or large rooms. The arctic alive giant floor map program is a free resource offered to teachers of keystage 2 students and is specifically aimed at years 4 6. Explore the natural history of canada s arctic is a new portable learning kit produced by the canadian museum of nature and canadian geographic education available. This arctic circumpolar map is unlike any other giant floor map created by canadian geographic education.

Arctic alive is a new resource made available from the canadian geographic association and includes a giant floor map with 10 curriculum linked activities. The map is part of a portable learning kit that is available free to schools across canada starting in early 2015. Explore the natural history of canada s arctic created in partnership with the canadian museum of nature challenges those perceptions the map and ten associated learning activities focus on the. The arctic is full of life and comprised of more than fifteen ecosystems thousands of plant and animal species and is home to more than 100 000 canadians.

Students can explore the natural diversity of canada s north through this giant floor map developed in partnership with the canadian museum of nature cmn. Canadian geographic education s new giant floor map arctic alive. What words would you use to describe the arctic. Giant arctic floor map at the museum of nature december 23 2014 kamerine.

Cold ice snow or barren. Projecting the earth from the arctic circumpolar region gives students the opportunity to stand at the top of the world and view canada and the world from a new perspective. Explore the natural history of canada s arctic.