Resources

Teachers, did you make your own unit or activity or lesson plan for this field trip? If so please email it to us for sharing.

Read a write up from a student at Kenakena School to find out how they used the field trip - PDF (438k)
Generic Planning Sequence for a LEARNZ virtual field trip - Word (249k) | PDF (350k).
Video question sheet - Word (31k) | PDF (217k) to use for each video (based on SOLO Taxonomy).
Do a class audioconference summary. Making a class summary of an audioconference is a great way of reviewing the information your students heard. It's easy to do, purely as some text, or as main facts on a picture background. Feel free to use the audioconference summary sheet - PDF (180k). We'd love to share your ideas so please send your class summary to shelley.hersey@core-ed.org.
Remember you can listen to the audioconferences again from the audio recordings if you want to gather more information.

National Library - Services to Schools have created a great resource list for New Zealand students studying Antarctica.
Encyclopedia Brittanica have pulled together lots of useful links, including this one about the Ross Ice Shelf. It’s also a good article for information about glaciation, icebergs and Antarctic flora and fauna.
Researchers have found ice shelves and glaciers are melting. What happens when an ice shelf collapses? What does this mean for Antarctica?
The Open University has created Frozen planet, explore the polar regions which features an interactive display through which you can view the history of polar exploration and the science of the polar regions.
Peel back the snow and ice and explore the planet's most remote continent with a video from Nasa that shows what you can’t see from the top.

Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager - A.D.A.M brings together more than 40,000 digitised historical and scientific images on a multimedia platform – one of the largest Antarctic focussed image collections on the planet (and many from previous LEARNZ field trips)!
Pixabay has fantastic photos which the photographers have allowed you to reuse in your projects and presentations; just copy the link to the photo and paste it into your bibliography.
You can travel around Antarctica by looking at these stunning photo collections REMEMBER, these photos are protected by copyright, which means you can’t use them without the photographer's permission.