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Royal Geographical Society: Discovering Antarctica
Resource-rich website will help students understand the challenges that Antarctica faces, the history of its exploration and the relationship between Antarctica and the rest of the world. Activities reveal insights about how it feels to...
Other
Paleomap Project
Virtual reality animation map showing continental drift from 200mya to the present. The animation map is small but effective in showing the positions of the land masses.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: About Antarctica: Plate Tectonics
Explanation of why Antarctica has fossils of ferns, amphibians, and reptiles. Gondwanaland is discussed and shown in an interactive map.
National Snow and Ice Data Center
State of the Cryosphere: Ice Shelves
If you need an in-depth explanation of ice shelves, then this is a resource that's worth looking into. There are plenty of diagrams showing existing ice shelves and the way they are shrinking.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Getting to the Core of Climate Change
Students investigate climate changes going back thousands of years by graphing and analyzing ice core data from Greenland and Antarctica. They use information about natural and human-caused changes in the atmosphere to formulate...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Zoom School: Antarctica
Learn some amazing facts about the coolest place on Earth, Antarctica. Explore a map and geography, science, animals, explorers, jokes, and more. Also contains a quiz to take.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Crittercam Chronicles: Antarctica
Play a game where you explore three scenes in Antarctica and find different types of animals: south polar skua, crabeater seal, emperor penguin, ice fish, leopard seal, killer whale, krill, adelie penguin, and weddell seal. After you...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Museum of Science, Art and Perception
This museum provides numerous online exhibits about everything from the science of sports to the Hubble Telescope. Each exhibit includes learning ideas, fun activities, articles, and learning games.
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: Byrd Polar Research Center
Visit the Byrd Polar Research Center site and find out about the research currently going on in Antarctica. Click on Polar Pointers to find links to other sites with information about the Antarctic.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Dangerous Race for the South Pole
After two Americans staked claim to reaching the North Pole, a Norwegian explorer and a British naval officer each set out for the last unmapped region in what newspapers called a "Race to the Pole." Elizabeth Leane sets the scene for...
Other
The Penguins Faq
Comprehensive resource guide to everything you ever wanted to know about Penguins.
Other
Antarctic Geological Drilling: What if the Ice Shelves Melted? [Pdf]
An activity guide where students build a model of Antarctica with its ice shelves. They use it to explore the impact of ice shelves melting in the Antarctic, and will discover that frozen ice shelves actually prevent ice further inland...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Antarctic Adventures!
This month-long ongoing lesson will give the students opportunities to learn more about Antarctica. They will investigate and research specific information and use it to create a notebook and an information table.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Warming of the Polar Regions
While global average temperature has risen above the 1950-1980 average, our planet's polar regions are experiencing warming at a faster rate than other places.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Continents: Antarctica
Use these internet sites and complete the activities for each one to learn more about the second smallest and coldest continent.
University of California
Earthguide: Maps: Shaded Relief: Antarctica [Pdf]
View a digital image of a colored shaded relief map of Antarctica.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Cold Deserts of the World
A chart summarizes the sizes, physical features, plant and animal life, and special facts of a selection of the world's cold deserts, including Antarctica, the Gobi, and the Great Basin Desert in the western United States.
Michigan Reach Out
Twin Cities Public Television: Antarctica I
After learning why scientists go to Antarctica, students plan and go on an expedition of an "unexplored" territory themselves. Planning guide for the expedition is included.
Michigan Reach Out
Michigan Reach Out: Antarctica Ii
This site provides basic reasons for Antarctica's importance to our planet. Young scholars can create their own treaty of governance for Antarctica.
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: Admiral Richard E. Byrd
This concise site contains a brief history of Byrd's life along with an easy to read chronology of major events in his life.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Antarctica
Facts about the location, human geography, physical geography, climate, geology, and topography of Antarctica.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Geography: Antarctic Ice Shelves
A brief description of the ice shelves in the Antarctic, and a list of forty-seven ice shelves along a map showing the locations of the largest ten. (Updated: May 21, 2012)
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Physical Science
The Discovery Channel provides numerous lesson plans dealing with the physical sciences. Content is organized by grade level, but all lesson plans include suggestions for adaptations for older or younger audiences.