Month: December 2019
ReQuest2021 Online Advent Calendar – Day 6
According to CBS news the Antarctic ice sheet is melting 6 times faster than in 1979…
ReQuest2021 Online Advent Calendar – Day 5
The Arctic vs Antarctica: 5 differences between these two frozen lands:
https://en.ponant.com/differences-arctic-antarctica/
And an associated TED Education Video…
ReQuest2021 Online Advent Calendar – Day 4
Take a 4-Minute Escape to the Blissful Serenity of Antarctica
Okay so it runs to nearly 5 minutes but for Day 4 of our #ReQuest2021 Advent Calendar it makes a perfect video to watch. Grab a cuppa and ‘chillout’ for a while in this incredible Antarctic scenery…
ReQuest2021 Podcast Ep. 2
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EPISODE 2 – Tuesday 3rd December 2019 – Derigging the Lady Daphne Thames Barge and an interview with Genevieve Scullion
A podcast documenting the Kent Scouts #ReQuest2021 Research Project all the way to Antarctica and back again! Interviews, Scouting historical links, events and research project work recorded along the way. Part of Alan Noake’s Antarctic Soundscapes project.
Show Notes
Derigging the Lady Daphne Thames Barge on Sunday 24th November 2019…
https://www.kentscouts.org.uk/1267
Genevieve Scullion’s – sponsorship link…
https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/GenevieveScullion
Our Fundraising Ladder with lots of ways you can follow and support the project….
ReQuest2021 Online Advent Calendar – Day 3
Drilling 3Km Ice Cores
Ice cores are drilled in glaciers and on ice sheets on all of Earth’s continents. Most ice cores, however, come from Antarctica and Greenland, where the longest ice cores extend to 3 kilometers—over 2 miles—or more in depth. Ice cores from the cold interior regions of polar ice sheets provide exceptionally well-preserved and detailed climate records. This is because the lack of melt at these locations does not corrupt the record of trapped gases or blur the record of other impurities. The oldest continuous ice core records extend to 130,000 years in Greenland, and 800,000 years in Antarctica.
(Source: https://icecores.org/about-ice-cores)
ReQuest2021 Online Advent Calendar – Day 2
Today, we are sharing two amazing websites about Antarctica…
Take a journey through the Discovering Antarctica website and begin discovering Antarctica for yourself. Each section features activities, images, video clips and fact sheets, to help you learn about this distant, frozen wilderness.
Packed full of fascinating facts about Antarctica, travel information and information for schools have a browse through the Cool Antarctica website.
ReQuest2021: Online Advent Calendar – Day 1
World Antarctica Day 1st December
Celebrating Antarctica and the day when the Antarctic Treaty was signed in 1959.
Antarctica Day was established by the Foundation for the Good Governance of International Spaces (Our Spaces) as a way to celebrate the continuation of the Antarctic Treaty, which was signed on 1 December 1959.
The Antarctic Treaty set aside 10% of the planet “forever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes in the interest of mankind”. You can find out more about the treaty and about Antarctica itself, from the Our Spaces Antarctica Day web page. There is also a teaching resources page.
You could also check out our feature article on Antarctica for more background information and teaching ideas.
(Source: https://globaldimension.org.uk/event/antarctica-day/2019-12-01/)