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    This document provides an overview and objectives for examining the Students on Ice Programme, which takes high school students on expeditions to Antarctica. It discusses why Antarctica is important for understanding the Earth's past, present, and future climate and geological history. Antarctica holds records of the past in its ice layers and has an undisturbed environment. Studying its simple ecosystem shows how small changes can have large impacts throughout the global carbon cycle and marine life. The programme founder takes students to show them firsthand how climate change is affecting the region so they will support solutions as future policymakers.

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    This document provides an overview and objectives for examining the Students on Ice Programme, which takes high school students on expeditions to Antarctica. It discusses why Antarctica is important for understanding the Earth's past, present, and future climate and geological history. Antarctica holds records of the past in its ice layers and has an undisturbed environment. Studying its simple ecosystem shows how small changes can have large impacts throughout the global carbon cycle and marine life. The programme founder takes students to show them firsthand how climate change is affecting the region so they will support solutions as future policymakers.

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    This document provides an overview and objectives for examining the Students on Ice Programme, which takes high school students on expeditions to Antarctica. It discusses why Antarctica is important for understanding the Earth's past, present, and future climate and geological history. Antarctica holds records of the past in its ice layers and has an undisturbed environment. Studying its simple ecosystem shows how small changes can have large impacts throughout the global carbon cycle and marine life. The programme founder takes students to show them firsthand how climate change is affecting the region so they will support solutions as future policymakers.

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    JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE EARTH

    By- Tishani Doshi


    Literary Analysis
    L- Lesson details (date of publication, selection from…, genre…)
    A – Author (Country, Born & Died year, known for ?)
    S – Setting
    T – Theme

    LESSON OBJECTIVES
    1. Examine the 'Students on Ice Programme'
    2. Discuss the geological significance of Antarctica
    3. Analyze why Antarctica represents the earth's past, present and future
    Answer questions highlighted in blue
    1. “Take care of the small things and the big things will take care of themselves.’ what is the relevance
    of this statement in the context of the Antarctic expedition?
     With its simple ecosystem and lack of biodiversity, it is the perfect place …
     How what affects the phytoplankton can affect ...
     Phytoplankton is a single-celled grass that feed the entire southern ocean’s marine life. These
    micro organisms require a low degree of temperature for their survival. But due to the
    overheating and the depletion of ozone layers, their existence is threatened.
     The message for the humans is to…
    2. Why is Antarctica a crucial element in the climate change debate?
    or
    ‘The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica: How is the study of this region useful to us?
    or
    Why is Antarctica the place to go to, to understand the earth’s present, past and future?

    The study of Antarctica helps us understand our past as the world’s geological history is trapped there.
    The climate of this supercontinent was much warmer which fostered a huge variety of flora and fauna.
    Antarctica is the only place in the world that has never sustained a human population with an
    undisturbed terrain. It holds half a million year old carbon records trapped in its layers of ice. With its
    simple ecosystem and lack of biodiversity, it is the perfect place to study the present too. We can study
    how little changes can have lasting impact, like how what affects the phytoplankton can affect all
    marine life and global carbon cycle. It helps us to understand climatic changes in the present in the
    context of its geological past. Antarctica also warns of the end of the world if the Antarctica ice sheet
    melts entirely, and the Gulf Stream Ocean current is disrupted. The constant melting of icebergs and
    depletion of ozone layer will affect sea animals, vegetation and humans very adversely. Thus,
    Antarctica is the perfect place to go to, to understand the earth’s present, past and the future.
    3. Write a paragraph describing a winter night/day spent outdoors.
    4. Describe the Students on Ice programme. What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school
    students in the Students on Ice expedition?
    ‘Students on Ice’ is an educational programme that takes students to Antarctica. Geoff Green stopped
    taking curious celebrities to Antarctica as he felt that they could give back only in a limited way. The
    expedition serves the purpose of providing young minds with the necessary exposure and knowledge
    regarding climate change so that they will develop a new understanding and respect for earth. He hopes
    that this life changing experience will make these future policy makers absorb, learn and most importantly
    act. The programme is successful because it is impossible for anyone to be not affected by the South pole.
    When you visibly see glaciers retreating and ice shelves collapsing, you begin to realize that global
    warming is very real.

    5. “It was nothing short of a revelation: everything does indeed connect.” Why does Tishani Doshi say
    so?
    For Tishani Doshi, the Antarctica expedition was full of epiphanic moments. One such moment occurred
    when she was walking on ice above seawater. She observes crabeater seals sunning themselves on ice
    much like stray dogs will do under the shade of a banyan tree. However strange or forbidding the earth’s
    terrain maybe each habitat has its rhythm of life and ways of sustaining life. Only the nature of the
    landscape varies, how humans and animals exist and thrive remains the same. This also means that what
    affects even the smallest organism in a habitat will affect all other organisms in the habitat. Thus
    everything does indeed connect.

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