Picture Galleries

All picture galleries published on this internet site are directly accessible via this section. These photos relate to the foundation's educational projects or constitute resources which are attached to or independent of the teaching tools such as CD-ROMS, teaching dossiers, exhibitions and others.

  • The winners of the Polar Quest contest: the students in 5 Latin-Sciences and their teacher Koen Meirlaen from the Leiepoort Deinze Campus Sint-Hendrik.

    Finals of the Polar Quest Contest

    20.05.2011

    Some general views of the exciting finals and the results of the Polar Quest contest, which took place in the "Class Zero Emission" space.

  • Scientists arriving by plane at the Princess Elisabeth Station (Utsteinen, Antarctica) on November 16th 2010.

    Princess Elisabeth Station 2010-2011: Scientists in the field

    18.01.2011

    No less than 6 different scientific teams will come to Princess Elisabeth Station this season. They will each undertake field expeditions to take specific measurements or samples: meteorites, bacterias, ice cores, etc. Each research project leads to a different antarctic…

  • Sami workshop

    Oslo Teachers’ Conference

    16.06.2010

    Memories from the Oslo Teachers' Conference. In conjunction with the five-day polar science conference "IPY Polar Science Conference" in Oslo, 120 teachers from 20 countries all over the world participated in an educational gathering: PolarTEACHERS.

  • Polar bear on sea ice, Churchill, Canada

    Arctic Fauna

    20.12.2009

    This picture gallery from Remy Marion presents a few of the animals living in the Arctic besides the emblematic Polar Bear. Remy Marion is a french photographer who frequently visits the poles.

  • Unloading of the freight at Utsteinen.

    Daily life at the Princess Elisabeth Station

    02.12.2009

    This picture gallery gives an idea of the daily life at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica station during previous construction expeditions and more recently, after finishing the station. Since its official inauguration in February 2009, the station provides each year a…

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  • This is the first part of Class Zero Emission, where we discuss climate and how it works. A presenter explains how the different greenhouse gases work using a digital animation.
  • Using a large world map with magnets with pictures and chemical symbols on them, the children learn about the causes and consequences of current climate change.
  • Before the students leave on an expedition to the Poles, one of them gets dressed up as polar scientist.
  • Ready to go!
  • The sledge that Alain Hubert (explorer and founder of the IPF) pulled during his Arctic Arc expedition.
  • The Polar Regions: the second part of Class Zero Emission. Students learning by playing with a 3D puzzle of the Arctic.

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Teacher Koen Meirlaen performs the experiment at the Princess Elisabeth station in Antarctica.

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