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Benefiting Kids By Sharing What He Knows
By CruiseDirector | September 3, 2010
From Legos to messing around on the computer, this boy also loves to play outdoors not to mention penguins. A chance to see his beloved birds in the wild will be a possibility for this first grader early next month and he will see them waddle across the ice and feed their newly hatched chicks in Antarctica. There will be an internationally known explorer and filmmaker who will be joining him and his parents on a journey to the Antarctic Peninsula. When you would like to get more information on affordable antarctica tours check out this site.
Only a handful of children his age have ever stepped onto the continent. Celebrations are being held by his friends for such an incredible trip. When he leaves, so does his entire class and this is the reason for such behavior. Not in person, as the trip will take nearly three weeks and cost thousands of dollars, but via an Internet linkup. The live video coverage for this trip is also available for other students.
An accessible site offers live question and answer forums as part of the pilot youth program. As a move to increase learning from the experience, teachers are planning to have several grade level activities from his dispatches. First graders will explore the weather, fourth graders the region’s geology, and fifth graders, forces in motion.
The family will be engaged in much adventure. Such a trip will be great for the boy who is a nature lover and his mother also said that her role her will be the voice of reason. Getting all you want from life is a matter of having a little motivation, says the boy. Visit this site for further information on antarctica vacations.
With a webcast, you are not looking at something new. For he who has been the first to ice bike 250 miles across Antarctica, this explorer will experience this kind of interaction with kids for the first time even if he was the first American to ski to the South Pole. He has been there over a dozen times since 1999 but the activities were mostly for adults including science and extreme skiing. The more he went, however, the more observations he wanted to share, and what better audience than our nation’s youth’ It was a year ago when he wanted to have a program for kids.
Just right is the timing for this kind of trip for there is currently much talk about the March of the Penguins movie and Antarctica. Serendipity may be the thing that led the boy’s mother to the explorer. Thanks to a mutual friend telling her about the website of the 42 year old explorer, she regained contact with the explorer with whom she attended a local university many years ago.
Buenos Aires, Argentina started the 14 day expedition and this is where the boy made his first live dispatch before going south. They and travelers originating from Toronto boarded a 100 passenger cruise ship that went through the Drake Passage and the Antarctic Peninsula. Considering the roughest sea weather during the entire trip, the 600 mile, 30 hour ride was probably the most dangerous part.
It was in crossing the Drake Passage that they were able to witness dolphins, elephant seals, and whales. When they arrive at the peninsula, they will then ride rubber boats to the nearby islands that could not be gone to at other times due to ice. The group will also be going to the scientific research stations and some penguin rookeries. Knowing about the secret colony of emperor penguins is the explorer, these are the largest among the 17 species in Antarctica and have been the main focus of March of the Penguins.
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