Students can follow up their postcard reports by designing a larger than life postage stamp. This makes an excellent bulletin board when a world map is lightly outlined in the background and the postcards and stamps are placed accordingly. This is a fun way in which to teach the often difficult concepts of mean, median and mode. Students can even create a database on the classroom wall including all this data. Additionally, a food chain or web could be completed by several pairs comparing and combining data on their particular animals.
Likes are seals, swimming, sailing on ice floes and watching aurora borealis.