Joining The Antarctica Trip Via Internet Linkup

One boy really loves penguins other than playing outside or with Legos not to mention messing around on the computer. Early next month, this first grader will get a chance to see his beloved birds in the wild, as they waddle across the ice and feed their newly hatched chicks on the snowy shores of Antarctica. Joined by his parents and an internationally known explorer and filmmaker, they will be heading off for a trip to the Antarctic Peninsula.

For most children his age, visiting this continent is a rather rare opportunity. Because of such an exciting trip, his friends are also in celebratory mode. Accompanying him on the trip are his classmates as well and so they jump for joy. If all of them come too then the costs would skyrocket so what they have is an Internet linkup. Globally, other students will also have a chance to see the live video coverage.

In order for questions to be raised and answers to be given live, the pilot youth program uses a site. This is an experience where the teachers are planning on coming up with grade level activities building on the boy’s dispatches. Topics for the first, fourth, and fifth graders are the weather, geology, and forces in motion respectively.

This is adventure for the entire family. According to his mother, he loves nature so the trip will be really good and she also said that she will be the voice of reason here. For the boy, this is a matter of proving to anyone that a little motivation goes a long way.

A webcast is nothing new in this time and age. Aside from this explorer’s other firsts like being the first American to ski to the South Pole and first to ice bike 250 miles across Antarctica, this interactive experience with kids will also be a first. Usually, his numerous trips there since 1999 involved adult pursuits like scientific purposes and extreme skiing even. The people he considered to be the best recipients for the knowledge of Antarctica that he could share were the children. For their kids’ program, they decided on it a year ago.

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. When the explorer and the boy’s mother came together it must have been by chance. 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. As they boarded a 100 passenger cruise ship, they and a number of Toronto travelers went through the Drake Passage and the Antarctic Peninsula. Encountering adverse sea weather, the 600 mile, 30 hour ride became the most dangerous part of the entire expedition.

The Drake Passage still gave them an opportunity to see a number of dolphins, elephant seals, and whales. Rubber boats will be used to go to the beaches and bays that are usually covered with ice and inaccessible at other times after they reach the peninsula. From the scientific research stations, they will then head on to the penguin rookeries. March of the Penguins made emperor penguins, the largest from the 17 species in Antarctica, famous and the explorer knows of the location of their colony.

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