Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe a voyage that was made to the Antarctic in the past and a template to write a letter to describe a voyage to the Antarctic as part of Ernest Shackleton’s team.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to record and describe Shackleton’s journey to explore the Antarctic by writing a letter in character as part of his team.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to explore and record how life was the same or different in the past by finding out about a famous explorer who journeyed to the Antarctic. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.