There is a pre-lesson activity available including teacher guidance, and an activity sheet for the children to follow! Click here to access these resources.

Prepare your students to take part in the Live Lesson by asking them to think about questions they would like to ask our expert speakers and submitting them here.

Don’t worry, there will be plenty more opportunities to submit your questions during the lesson too.

If you would like a shout-out for your class, you can submit your request here.

Introduction:

Join Sally-Ann Spence at British Antarctic Survey HQ where she will be learning about how ice cores are extracted and analysed to inform us more about climate change and our world in the past.

Subject Knowledge and Activity

We will be joined by scientists and experts who will tell us more about their experiences in the antarctic as well as what we learn from the research they do. In the BAS laboratories and freezer room, teaching will be put into a real-life context through exciting demos, recordings and animated infographics.

The lesson itself will follow the journey of a scientist from the clothes store in Cambridge all the way to Antarctica where they drill ice cores for analysis. We will follow the process step-by-step as the ice turns from solid to liquid to gas, focussing on what researchers look for in each part of the process.

Questions and answers

Our expert speakers will join us in the studio to answer your students’ questions. Click here to submit a question!

Don’t forget to share your photos with us on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtags #BASLive & #LiveLesson

There are post-lesson activities available including teacher guidance, and an activity sheet! Click here to access these resources.

In further exciting news, a virtual tour of the labs featured in the Live Lesson, will be available to explore right after the lesson, featuring interactive elements and videos with the scientists at British Antarctic Survey HQ! Keep an eye out for an email in your inbox featuring the link, the tour will also be available in the resource bank on this page following the broadcast.