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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

12-14-2011 Antarctica, Ecology, Ice, Snow, and Poetry

On December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen is the first man to reach the South Pole.
Articles and Pictures:



Have a class debate about South Pole tourism, or on whether or not Antarctica is shrinking.

  1. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/hillary-clinton-urges-tougher-controls-on-south-pole-tourists-1667533.html
  2. http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-effects/
  3. http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2008/0110/p14s01-sten.html
  4. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=1678441&page=1#.TuJIOLJCo8k
  5. http://www.livescience.com/16548-antarctic-ozone-hole-5th-largest-record.html
  6. http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/is-global-warming-melting-antarcticas-ice-1193/
  7. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/whys_there_more_ice_at_the_sou.html
  8. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/globalwarmingforkids.html


Animals:
Ice, Snow, Winter Poetry:

Other Lessons:

2 comments:

  1. Antarctica is truly best place. There are so many interesting place which most of the people didn't see before. It was really interesting to enjoy hot foods between stream and ice ocean.
    Tours of Antarctica

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  2. Do you have pictures from your trip? Post us a link, we would love to see them!

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