Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe a voyage to the Antarctic that might have been taken in the past, a template for core and extension ability levels to structure and write a recount describing a voyage to the Antarctic in the past and a worksheet for support ability levels to add vocabulary words and illustrations to a storyboard describing a voyage to a special location.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to select information to use when writing a diary entry describing a voyage exploring the Antarctic.

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.