Antarctica+Teaching+Resource

Within the Upper Primary School years (students aged around 9-13), students often cover units on Antarctica. The topic of Antarctica is extremely diverse and hence offers many possibilities in making the units content accessible to students with individual needs. The Australian Government has a very useful and resourceful website that provides general classroom content that can be adapted to the area of study within the unit of Antarctica. It provides activities such as fact files, the history, tourism, images, games and puzzles, live Antarctic footage, videos and virtual resources and endeavours. Clearly there is a broad and vast array of resources available!
 * Antarctica Teaching Resource- **
 * What is it?**

Sections of this area of study can easily be adapted off this website. For example, the board game can be easily combined with simpler activities such as dressing a person in the correct layers of clothing into a station teaching, co-teaching system. The ways that this website is so adaptable makes it easily altered for a class with students who have sensory disabilities and intellectual or developmental disabilities. For example, a student with a hearing impairment could gain huge understanding about the temperature variations and weather conditions Antarctica presents on a 24 hour basis from simply viewing the web cast at each base camp. Whereas, a student who has an intellectual disability, may learn more from viewing the food webs or by doing a puzzle. This websites diversity provides the opportunity for students to have a well adapted education to fit to their needs and their ILP. It moreover enables all students to feel included in the learning process as they may be working on something that better assists them in their learning style, hence creating a sense of inclusion.
 * How it is appropriate for students with Individual Needs?**

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 * Emily Chilvers**