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This section presents the latest news on the International Polar Foundation's educational activities and projects. It also contains general interest news on the polar regions, climate change and sustainable development for the educational world. Our RSS feeds will inform you when news are published on this website.

  • Take part in the Polar Week by performing the Eratosthenes experiment!

    16.03.2012

    On March 20, the Spring equinox takes place, providing the perfect opportunity to participate in the Sun Shadows project and to follow in the footsteps of the Greek scholar Eratosthenes, who made a surprisingly accurate estimate of the earth's circumference in the 3rd century BC!

  • Collaboration with “U4 energy”, a European competition on energy efficiency

    29.02.2012

    IPF is happy to announce its collaboration with the second edition of U4 energy, a European school challenge targeted to primary and secondary schools across Europe.

  • Join the Sun Shadows Project!

    26.01.2012

    You don’t need much, just some sun and a long stick!Pupils and teachers all over the world join forces to measure the shadows of a 1m long stick! We compile an online database that can be used in geography lessons about the movements of the earth in our solar system, in trigonometry classes and even in classes discussing how time used to be measured long ago. Of course it is…

  • First Days of Teacher Koen Meirlaen in Antarctica

    06.01.2012

    Koen Meirlaen, a geography teacher at the Leiepoort Sint-Hendrik School in Deinze, has just arrived at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica station!

  • PolarEDUCATORS workshop in Montreal - deadline application November 14

    11.10.2011

    Since the International Polar Year in 2008, the IPF has gained a lot of experience in keeping polar science outreach and education activities alive and prospering. Because of this leadership role, the IPF has been invited to co-organize the PolarEDUCATORS Workshop, which is part of the IPY 2012  From Knowledge to Action Conference, taking place in Montreal, Canada from April 22-27.  

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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.
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  • 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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You don’t need much, just some sun and a long stick!Pupils and teachers all over the world join forces to measure the shadows of a 1m long stick!…

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