Your task is to design a poster about the dry valleys of Antarctica.
Your presentation should include
- An image of a dry valley.
The British Antarctic Survey has a short article here. There is also a nice description of dry valleys and some images here. A search of flickr, with the terms ‘ dry valleys Antarctica’, will also provide you with a range of images to look at.
- A image of a ventifact and a brief description of how they are formed. Make sure your ventifact is from Antarctica.
You may find this article at the BLDGBLOG useful.
- A map showing the location of a dry valley.
There is a useful website here with maps of the dry valleys. Click on the link for a closer look.There is a useful map and tour of the McMurdo Dry Valleys here. There are some nice panoramic images of dry valleys here. Please make sure that your images of dry valleys are geographically correct.
- A brief description about why the valleys are dry (Use the notes from our sheet.)
For those of you that want a more detailed description of why the valleys are dry, read this article.
- Around your poster, post some words that reflect the atmosphere that these valleys provoke. (Again use the notes we made in class.)
You may also want to read Paul Doherty’s experience of an Antarctic Dry Valley.
- Make sure your work has a title.
- Please make sure that any images you use have a title, and that you acknowledge their source, by including the web address.
Your work should be printed before the session, ready to hand in on Monday. If you can’t produce a colour copy and want one, it should be with me by Friday.
If you need help, or find any useful links please comment below.
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Hia, i thought that the lesson was good! that starter for ten was good too. I enjoy studying the antarctica cuz b4 we stared looking at it i had never seen how it looks on a atlas b4!!! and it is interesting knowing how hard it is to live there. it also looks v. pretty i mean cuz if you look at the ice it looks like buildings have been carved its weird.. ne way cyaz …
Hi Laura
Great perceptions here, I like how you compare the ice formations to buildings. Sorry, I thought you were away! Glad you thought the lesson was good, you can read my comments about it in the post above.
Climate coming up on monday, after we finish our discussion of the video, I need to get my head around seasons.
Thanks for the feedback. Keep posting.
Mr C
Hi, I’m one of Mrs Marston’s geography students I am also really enjoying learning about the Antarctic, its such a beautiful place. I’m creating a movie about dry valleys and ventifacts for my homework its great!
-Tom cya on Thursday!
Hi Tom
Comments from Mrs M’s ‘Dark Side’
are always welcome. Glad you are enjoying the course. Great idea about a movie for your homework task. Send me a copy and I’ll be glad to host it on the blog for you.
Great stuff
Mr C
Excellent, I’ll slap loads of copyrights the web version then!!
I would host it over at my site http://www.geocities.com/geography_galore but its a free site so bandwith problems and data allowance etc.
-Many Thanks Tom
Excellent work Tom, happy to help with this and a great idea. I’ll link to this later this weekend. Well done!
Second thoughts Tom, perhaps a blog would be more useful to you. You could try blogger or wordpress. You could host your videos via You Tube, wordpress and blogger allow you to put the videos into these types of blog. Email me if you need any help.
hi,do you have the links to any sites were i can make a blog for geographicle reasons :p
Hi Jake,
yeap I do, try http://www.blogger.com or http://www.wordpress.com, they are free!
Let me know how you get on!
All the best
Mr C
wordpress will not accept my msn adress
i will have to make an aol or somthing later then try it
Hi Jake,
I wouldn’t make up an address, this is because wordpress will allow you to moderate any comments that are made on your blog, these are forwarded by the blog. You can sign up for a free AOL account or a safer option would be your school email.
Cheers
Mr C
Thank you for the useful links!
No problem, glad you have found them useful