There were many Antarctic Explorers from James Clark Ross to Lewis Clark, but we only covered the three Edwardian explorers. These are Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott and Earnest Shackleton. Antarctic Explorers: Resources Books I bought a selection of picture and factual books which the girls read on their own. As always, I used picture…
Category: Antarctica Unit Study
Antarctic Midwinter Party
As part of our Antarctic Explorers study we threw an Antarctic midwinter party for all eight of us. Robert Scott, the second explorer to reach the South Pole, held the very first Antarctic Midwinter party whilst on his Terra Nova expedition. Every year in June, the scientists in the Antarctic take part in their own…
Continent Study: Antarctica – Digging Deeper
I still felt there was much to explore in our Antarctica study but we were running out of time. I chose three more, fairly effortless activities to do to wind up our studies. Modern autobiographies about visiting Antarctica Much of what we had learnt about this pole came from secondary sources, although we did look…
Continent Study: Antarctica
This post contains all the work we have done for our multi-age continent study. Week 1: Antarctica: Resources Week 2: Antarctica: Where in the World? Week 3: Antarctica: Making a Cookie Map Week 4: Antarctica: Creating a Research Lab Week 5: Antarctica: Experiments in the Snow Week 6: Antarctica Inspired Art Week 7: Antarctica: How Do Animals…