Polar Exploration
- Subject:
- D&T, English, Geography, History, ICT, Mathematics, Science
- Age Groups:
- KS2, KS3, KS4
- Publisher:
- LGfL, NEN
LGfL worked with the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge University in creating this comprehensive resource, which provides a unique insight into the ‘Heroic Age of Scientific Discovery’.
Featuring exclusive access to the historic archive of the most famous polar expeditions of the 20th Century, the resource includes:
- Video footage of equipment and artefacts from the most famous expeditions, complete with text transcripts of the expert explanations
- High-resolution photographs of objects featured in the video footage
- Journal extracts read by a descendant of a member of Captain Scott’s Discovery expedition
- Interactive map of the Polar Regions with plotted locations of the multimedia assets
- The opportunity to meet a modern-day polar explorer and hear of his experiences living for extended periods of time in some of the world’s most extreme environments. A wide range of learning materials to support all images, video and audio recordings.
NEN only resource
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