Student research ideas.

There are many ways to explore this site. One possibility is just to follow your own interests.

If you would like an extra challenge, you might like to try one of these.

Use the Chronological Timeline to find out when Mawson was exploring Antarctica and outback Australia.

What else was going on in the world about this time? How might these events have affected Mawson?

Possible areas of investigation include;

• Radioactivity
• Aircraft
• Antarctic Exploration
• Whaling
• World War 1 and 2
• Vitamins and food for expeditions
• The British Empire, the British Commonwealth and Australian Federation.

Mawson was a geologist. He spent a great deal of time solving geological puzzles using the clues he found in rocks.

Use the information on the site to help create an overview of the way rocks are formed and what can happen to them. Mawson was particularly interested in the effects of glaciers. You could make this a feature of your presentation.

Antarctica was not very well known in Mawson's day. He was one of the earlyexplorers to the frozen continent. Use this site to discover what Mawson knew about Antarctica, and what he discovered. Then surf the web to discover some of the things scientists are studying today in Antarctica. Are they studying the same things that Mawson's expeditioners studied, or are they studying different things?