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British Antarctic Survey (BAS) provides resources for students and their teachers to learn about the natural environment. These are relevant for teaching current affairs and science as well as geography.
Discovering Antarctica
In secondary schools and sixth-form colleges there is increasing emphasis on Antarctica in the national curriculum. BAS has collaborated on a new, interactive website to provide teachers with a definitive source of Antarctic information and activities for the classroom. Discovering Antarctica was developed jointly by the British Antarctic Survey, Royal Geographical Society and Foreign and Commonwealth Office to enthuse young people in Antarctic research and to give teachers access to an authoritative resource from the UK’s national Antarctic operator. It was funded by FCO’s Polar Regions Unit.
For the first time, teachers and students have access to an engaging resource that covers the science and geopolitics of the world’s last great wilderness. The website features a wide range of themes to utilize and investigate both in classroom learning and in independent coursework. Topics including climate and environmental change, the future of the continent, international politics, current scientific research and tourism. Each come with downloadable factsheets, multimedia inter-actives and images to challenge and inspire.
Click on the image to visit Discovering Antarctica.
Visits by Antarctic staff to Primary Schools traditionally involve talking about Scott and Shackleton, penguins and other wildlife, ice and snow, and how modern-day explorers live in the Antarctic. Primary school children often have the fun of trying on Antarctic clothing and examining the food used by the scientists who camp out in the field.
Diaries and reports written by staff working at BAS Antarctic stations and on the BAS ships are invaluable for getting to know what life in the Antarctic is really like. BAS welcomes the opportunity to interact with teachers from a range of disciplines to see how childrens' natural excitement in the Antarctic can be channelled to consolidate an appreciation of basic science.
For further information please email: schools@bas.ac.uk
