Producing educational resources to enter the Polar Contests
Polar Research is multidisciplinary, with biologists, geologists, physicists, chemists, geographers, historians, and artists often working in the same place. We are therefore looking for resources that combine background information from several subject areas (traditional sciences, social sciences, arts).
Contest entrants are invited to submit entries which give information covering one of three topic areas:
- The Polar Regions: discovery and exploration
- Climate change and the poles
- Polar policy and solutions to polar issues
The developed resource should consist of the following two components:
- Background information on the chosen topic from at least two different disciplines (for example, how do geologists and politicians contribute to our understanding of Climate Change?). The format can vary from fact sheets, to images, artworks, graphs of data, video clips – any format that conveys the information in an inspiring way.
- An activity that other students could do to learn about the chosen topic. This could be a role play scenario, a card game, a planned camping trip, an outline for an art project, or any other activity that would be appropriate to teach your age group about your topic.
