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Students, from Kindergarten to Grade 12, from Pembina Hills Regional School Division and Alberta Distance Learning Centre, are invited to celebrate this year’s International Polar Bear Day through artistic expression.
We are inviting you to create and share a form of visual art (i.e. painting, photography, sketch, drawing, digital...
Polar bears are hungry and unhappy because the ice is shrinking. You can walk or bike to school to slow global warming. We share indigenous knowledge of the world when we Skype.
The polar bear is sad and hungry because his ice is melting and he is starving. Kids should not throw bottles in the rivers anywhere, because the plastic ends up in the ocean. I can hold signs to make people aware. I share my indigenous knowledge when I play with friends and show them my toy bear.
See how his eyes do not look good? The polar bear can only live in his home. His home is changing. The fish are too far and he cannot catch seals. The happy polar bear lives where it is just right.
The polar bear here is starving. There is no ice anywhere near him. I can protect his habitat by not littering, since it all ends up in the ocean. One way I share my indigenous knowledge of the land is by telling others what I notice, but it is just as important to listen to elders.
Polar bears are starving because they have to swim so far to reach their food. They have to wait a long time to eat - eight months! Sometimes the mum bears are dying, too. Our whole earth gets too hot for them. Indigenous youth can speak up, stand up, and write to Justin Trudeau. We kids can walk or carpool to school, and buy things that last.
The polar bear can only live at the edge of the ice. The world becomes warm and the ice melts. He is hungry, but cannot go far. The number of polar bears is getting smaller.
