Connected: Polar learning activities

Activities and resources to help you make the most of the Scottish Friendly Children's Book Tour Connected: Polar events(this will open in a new window).

You can also download a resource pack with activites which supports all four of the events in the Poles Apart tour. These include:

• Four brilliant activities inspired by Brightstorm to support Epic polar adventurers with Vashti Hardy and Catherine Johnson
• Discussion prompts and quick activity ideas for Poles Apart with Jeanne Willis and Jarvis
• Activities ideas to help you explore the RSS Discovery and find out more about Shackleton for Shackleton’s Journey with William Grill and RSS Discovery
• Useful links and ideas to help you create your own graphic novel for Surviving the Antarctic with Sarah Airriess and British Antarctic Survey
• Brightstorm worksheets and printable resources

You can also find you next read in our Polar adventures book list(this will open in a new window) which recommends a range of fiction and non-fiction titles inspired by the tour.

We have a fantastic video from author Vashti Hardy, showing you how to plan and write a story starting from a map. This video is great to help pupils with story planning, idea generation and structuring their story. It also offers lots of opportunity to explore map reading skills!