Connecting pre-university students with professional science
Contextual Curriculum Connections: Science in the Antarctic
Background video
Summertime in Antarctica, with long daylight every day, presents the best opportunity to get out to study … geology, atmosphere, weather and climate, ice cores, space, ecology
Find out about how melting ice is likely to affect the world in this video from the British Antarctic Survey.
An Australian Broadcasting Corporation video – rather long but giving a good sense of the international flavour at research stations on the Antarctic Peninsula.
NOTE: Shows alcohol consumption and a very brief naked plunge pool dive
Ice sheets, ice shelfs, glaciers, icebergs, see ice, and global ocean currents – a video from the USA Public Broadcasting Service
External videos on YouTube
We have carefully selected some relevant video, mostly publicly available on YouTube.
There are some general videos here, and each curriculum topic has short videos.
Copyright of such videos remains with the creators.
YouTube may have advertising material.
An account of the US Scott-Amundsen research station at the South Pole, by Wendover Productions (with good coverage but particularly high-profile advertising)
(C) David Brodie 2025 Note that all external videos and websites remain copyright of the creators