Penguin Awareness Day - 20th January

Penguin Awareness Day helps to raise awareness about these flightless birds, their habitats and lifestyle. Use these resources to help explore the topic of penguins and their environment, across the STEM subjects.

Resources for primary level are towards the top of the list, with resources suited to older students beneath.

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Planning an Antarctic Expedition

Within this resource, learners will work in groups of four, use their mathematical skills and scientific knowledge to help plan for an expedition to the Antarctic in 3 sessions.  They will consider the appropriate clothing, food and other essential equipment they will need to take with them.  Learners will also use...

Marine Biologist

Tom Harts is a marine biologist at the Zoological Society of London. This Department for Education clip illustrates the importance of mathematics in biology and provides an insight into a zoological career. Tom describes how he collects data during field trips in Antarctica which he then analyses back in London. He...

Surviving in Antarctica

This video from Teachers TV shows the experiences of four British teachers as they undertake a four-week trip to Antarctica, carrying out scientific experiments in order to bring the results back to the scientific community and their students.

One teacher investigates the effect of cold on the human body...

Preparing for Antarctica

This video from Teachers TV follows four British teachers as they prepare for their once-in-a-lifetime expedition to Antarctica to carry out a science project.

The teachers' preparation schedule includes training sessions on Europe's largest ice-cap in Norway and constant fundraising to earn the £10,000...

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