Educational Resources

An ever-expanding series of "deep drills" into a broad variety of SWAIS2C science topics, with activities and lesson plans, coming soon!

An interactive educational animation that can be used in the classroom to effectively explain how scientists use Ice, glacial, and ocean sediments clues to uncover past climate evolution.

Vast, massive, enormous, humongous — there’s no shortage of words to describe the size of Antarctica, but it can be hard to get your head around just how BIG it is.

Our Education and Outreach Coordinator Marlo Garnsworthy has created a series of illustrated comparative maps to show the sheer scale of the icy continent, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and the Ross Ice Shelf relative to more familiar chunks of land.

May be downloaded and used with credit: © Marlo Garnsworthy/Icebird Studio 2025

The ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) research is the "ancestor" of the SWAIS2C project.

People who work and live in Antarctica use lots of unique words and phrases. Download them, print them out, and learn to speak the lingo like a local!

The carbon cycle describes the process in which carbon atoms continually travel from the atmosphere to the Earth and then back into the atmosphere.

Meet some members of our SWAIS2C team and explore various polar careers, from scientist, to driller, to support staff and communications specialists!