The following page is to help you produce your extreme environments coursework.
Remember, pretty and enlightened, not pretty and dim.
A fond welcome to Wanda, you will get to know her well! 
Your work here will be marked on your knowledge of the extreme environment and your skills.
What skills will I show in my work
- Research skills, shown by the extent of your bibliography.
- Your choice of images and maps.
- How you have annotated your chosen images and maps.
- How you link these images and maps to your writing.
- Your sense of audience, remember you are writing to a person.
Electronic copies of the task sheets.
These will also be placed under ’shared documents’ at College.
Click on the links below to open the documents, or right click and ’save as’ to save a copy to your desktop.
Wanda’s letter (1mb pdf)
Wanda’s arrangements (800kb pdf)
Wanda’s success criteria (899kb pdf), basically the posh name for the mark scheme.
Help Sheets.
Mr. Cassidy’s presentation tips (24kb Word doc), some helpful ideas that we discussed in class.
Mr.Cassidy’s teaching points (28 kb Word doc), a result of our class collaboration when thinking about this task.
Wanda coursework checklist (66 Kb Word doc), have you covered everything?
Mrs Marston’s climate PowerPoint (5.8mb ppt) and Frost bite PowerPoint (1.5mb ppt)
Research links.
This is not a definitive list, but just a guide for starting your research. Remember that you already have plenty of information within your class notes. The library will also be willing to help. Please tell me if you find a dead link, or find a new link that people might find useful.
Remember- all websites used must be in your bibliography.
Images and Graphics.
You may be able to find images and graphics on the Internet. These can be annotated by hand or within a programme such as PowerPoint.
When Googling, make sure that your search requirements are specific. ‘Antarctic‘ will produce a vast array of images, where as ‘Antarctic Crevasse’ will narrow the search.
Remember to record the website from where your images are from in your bibliography. Please whenever possible make use of Creative Commons images.
Flickr is also a good source of images.
Some useful links.
Wikipedia is a useful source of explanation, if you want more detail about processes such as Albedo.
The Royal Geographical Society site, Discover Antarctica has a range of information on journeys to Antarctica
Climate
This page from Cool Antarctica provides information about Antarctica’s climate.
Antarctica Connection offers some information on the best time to travel to Antarctica .
The British Antarctic Survey offers a host of information on Antarctica’s weather and climate.
Climate and the impact on humans.
This Cool Antarctica pages provides information on the impact of cold on human beings.
Food.
This Cool Antarctica page provides information on nutrition during exploration in Antarctica .
This Cool Antarctica page looks at the impact of poor nutrition on the body.
The British Antarctic Survey provides some information on food.
Clothing
This Cool Antarctica page discusses clothing requirements in Antarctica.
The British Antarctic Survey provides some information on clothing.
The Antarctic Connection offers some advice on clothing to take.
The New Zealand Antarctic Survey offers information and a downloadable list of clothing required for Antarctica.
Conservation
This is a general Wiki page on Antarctica but refers to the Antarctic Conservation Act and the bringing in of alien species.
This page from Cool Antarctica also refers to the use of Husky dogs in Antarctica.
Historical Perspective
Cool Antarctica provides an account of Scott’s journey and that of Amundsen (Fram to his friends!).
Travel
This Channel 4 website gives some tips for travelling to Antarctica, scroll down the page.
This Cool Antarctica page provides details on travelling to Antarctica, this is mostly tourism based.
The British Antarctic Survey provides some information on travelling to Antarctica.
Antarctic Connection offers advice on travel to Antarctica.
The New Zealand Antarctic Survey offers a huge amount of advice on travelling to Antarctica.
Best of Luck.
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