Lesson plans for Ice Streams, Ice Shelves and Ice Bergs of Antarctica Making an Antarctic Ice and Water Flow Model Antarctic Sediment Cores
This teacher resource lists selected articles from the Connected and School Journal reading series that support the science concepts when teaching about Antarctica.
Classroom Antarctica is a comprehensive online teaching resource produced by the Australian Antarctic Division, with lesson plans aimed at grades 3 to 8.
Take a journey through this site and discover Antarctica for yourself. Each section features activities, images, video clips and fact sheets, to help you learn about this distant, frozen wilderness.
Virtual field trips target primary and secondary schools are closely linked to the NZ curriculum, in particular science, social studies and geography. They can also be used by other subject teachers.
NZ School children will hear directly from a panel of three Antarcticians on the history of Scott Base, how they support important climate science in Antarctica and the animals that live there.
Activity about ph levels and ocean acidification in Antarctica.
Term length learning plan ( QUEST) about researching and presenting on a topic of interest from Antarcitica that related to survival or sustainabiliity.
Activity about observing icebergs and how they melt over time.
Lesson about observing how ice melts in different environments.
Activity about categorising adaptations emperor penguins have made to the Antarcitic environment.
Activity experiment testing the adaptation of blubber in Antarctic animals.
Activity about how blubber provides insulation for Antarctica animals.
Eight week learning plan about water and the effects of climate change on the Antarctica Ice sheet.
Recording sheet for Animal Adaptation lesson - Emperor Penguins.
Lesson about penguin adaptations to living in Antarctica and categorising them into Structural, Behavioural or Physiological.
Inquiry and three week learning plan about Antarctica's unique envionment and climate change
Three part activity about carbon dioxide and the acidic effects on the ocean.
List of 15 websites and factsheets for researching about Antarctica.