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: Explorer Study: Sir Ernest Shackleton
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…
Explorer and Leadership Study: Ernest Shackleton in Antarctica
I remember my Dad dropping Shackleton's name into the conversation often when I was little. He was, quite rightly, very proud to have 'connections' to this great explorer, albeit it on my mother's side rather than his own. I grew up knowing we were related and that this was a good thing. However, I had…