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see www.thehotrock.org.au global warming, global warning module for associated lesson plan.

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• Read through your information sheet.• As a group produce a story board to show the impacts of

climate change on your part of the ecosystem.• You could do one picture each or work on them jointly.• Each picture should have a caption at the bottom or in the

picture like in a cartoon strip.• Don’t worry too much about your drawing as you will also be

explaining your picture to the class.• Stick the sheets together in a row.

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• Polar bears– Polar bears hunt ice-living seals. The polar bears walk quietly

on the ice to the edge of a seal’s breathing hole in the ice. The bear then waits for the seal to surface for air. This hunting technique takes much less energy for the bear than chasing a seal while swimming. If warmer conditions cause the ice to form later in the fall and break up earlier in the spring, become unstable, or retreat too far from shore, polar bears will have difficulty getting enough food. In fact, if the ice retreats too far from the shore, bears can drown trying to swim out to the ice.

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