Showing posts with label Antarctipedia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antarctipedia. Show all posts

Saturday, 20 September 2014

Antarctipedia...

Year 8 students will be putting together items for the Antarctipaedia over the next few weeks, and this will be placed online so that everyone can see the items that have been created.

A few pointers.

We used the example of Wikipedia to show how other similar encyclopaedias which are created by lots of contributors are put together.
Information contained within the articles is referenced, so that the sources are credited.
Images should be Creative Commons licensed hopefully.
Here are some possible article titles which you might be able to use.

Places
McMurdo Sound and Base
South Pole Base
Explorers’ Huts: Scott and Shackleton
UK bases

Animals
Seals
Penguins
Whales and Krill
Use of dogs on the continent

People
Robert Falcon Scott and others
Ernest Shackleton and others
Douglas Mawson
Roald Amundsen

Landscape
Glaciers
Mount Erebus - volcano
Transantarctic Mountains

Water & Ice
Ronne and Ross Ice Shelves
Southern Ocean
East and West Antarctic Ice Sheets

Science & People
Antarctic Bases
The Antarctic Treaty
Ozone Layer
South Pole base

Weather
Katabatic winds
Low temperatures
Winter conditions
Seasonal daylight and darkness

Tourism
Tourist code
Numbers and destinations of tourists
Attractions for tourists

Problems
The Future of Antarctica

Global Warming and Sea level rise

And thanks to Charlotte for suggesting the name Antarctipedia, which is better than the original one I came up with....