The Antarctica Webinar

I hope you all heard about the webinar that the entire third grade participated in. Mrs. Crawford's and Mrs. Marinelli's classes watch the presentation together. The webinar was broadcast from Antarctica and was a wonderful additional resource to learn from during our habitat unit! In case you got "nothing" as a response when you asked, "What did you do today?" Here are the details and the website link for you and your child to investigate together.

This is a list of the new learning that our classes realized during the webinar. Some of these points were new to Mrs. Crawford and me!

• The scientists sleep in tents

• The scientists build igloos (snow caves) by covering bags of clothes

with snow, then removing bags of clothes

• Scientists are trained to build igloos for safety

• Scientists wear “white bunny boots” to protect their feet

• There are no polar bears in Antarctica

• Arctic and Antarctica are different places. The Arctic is the North

Pole; Antarctica is the South Pole

• Antarctica is the only continent with no Native people 

• The coldest recorded temperature was -128 degrees Fahrenheit

• Some penguins don’t like ice (terrestrial penguins)

• Temperatures are still below freezing temperatures (30 degrees F

today) even though it is their summer

• There are 200 different kinds of penguins

• Antarctica is a desert (due to the amount of precipitation and extreme

weather)

• Adelie penguins make their nests out of rocks on dry land

• There are no countries that own Antarctica; it is set up for peaceful

research and science

• The sun never goes down in the summer; scientists sleep during the

daytime hours. 

Go to Time for Kids.  for more information about the scientists and their research.