The British Antarctic Survey
The world-leading British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the UK’s national Antarctic operator. For over 60 years it has been at the forefront of scientific research into important global issues such as climate change, biodiversity and ozone depletion.
BAS is committed to communicating its science and operations to all sectors of society and encouraging informed dialogue about global environmental issues. Its award-winning educational resources help engage and enthuse the next generation of scientists.
Website
For more information visit the British Antarctic Survey website.
Image Collection of the British Antarctic Survey
To view the British Antarctic Survey collection of stunning images visit www.photo.antarctica.ac.uk.
Discovering Antarctica
The BAFTA nominated website, www.discoveringantarctica.org.uk, is an online interactive teaching tool for teachers of Key Stages 3 and 4 geography that covers the science and geopolitics of the world’s last great wilderness.
It is aimed at geography teachers and pupils and features a wide range of themes to utilise and investigate both in classroom learning and in independent coursework.
Topics including climate and environmental change, the future of the continent, international politics, current scientific research and tourism each come with downloadable factsheets, multimedia interactives, images to challenge and inspire.
A dedicated 'Teachers Area', providing notes, relevant curriculum links and top tips for using website activities on an interactive whiteboard in the classroom feature in Discovering Antarctica.
Discovering Antarctica has been developed jointly by the Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG), British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Polar Regions Unit.
Antarctic Waves
The interactive resource Antarctic Waves is an exciting new music-making 'toolkit' that uses real Antarctic science to create compositions inspired by science from the Earth's last great wilderness.
Developed to fit with DfES Schemes of Work and curricula specifications for 11-19-year-olds, the BAFTA award-winning Antarctic Waves is thought-provoking, exciting and fun to use, whatever the student's age.
Music teachers can use Antarctic Waves to encourage creative thinking in music composition, develop student skills in ICT, improve familiarity with other software (Cubase or Audio Logic) and connect to curriculum areas of science, geography and arts.
Using the 'toolkit' individually or in groups, students can generate their own ideas and enrich their understanding of sound, composition and science through five interactive areas of Antarctic research - the Wandering Albatross, Surfing a Glacier, All-Sky, Whistlers and Ocean Life help. Students and teachers can evaluate creative ideas and approaches, and compare the value of their own work with others.
Antarctic Waves uses real science, stunning images and extraordinary sounds from Antarctica to stimulate musical composition. It enables students to create any type of music composition from pop and bhangra to samba and classical. This multimedia resource is available on CD-ROM with additional notes on the internet.
Funded by NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), Antarctic Waves is inspired by a joint commission by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Philharmonia Orchestra of a new Antarctic Symphony by leading British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. British Antarctic Survey and Philharmonia Orchestra teamed up with creative multimedia experts Braunarts and between them they produced the key concepts for Antarctic Waves - and educational development of the initial science-art collaboration. Preview Antarctic Waves at www.antarcticwaves.com.