Antarctica

Our first week we will race around Antarctica, a land of snow and ice and penguins!

Antarctica Map--open to get a PDF to keep track of your points

Here are a few videos about Antarctica to watch

Antarctica has some cool landmarks

Like Mt Erebus, with a molten lake

(image from our breathing planet, said public domain)

Blood Falls--red because of iron oxide mixing with the salt water--it is 5 stories tall

(image from mpora.com)

and the Una Peaks

(from Wikimedia)

The Una Peaks will be this week's ROADBLOCK

The highest summit is at747 m In order to complete the roadblock you must climb 747 stairs. At my house, our main staircase has 13 steps, with is basically 57.5 times up the stairs. You don't have to do it all at once. If I went up the stairs 10 times a day I would have it more than done. 

Here are this week's DETOURS

In the Amazing Race the teams get to choose between two detour activities. You can do just one, or do both. 

Option 1: Learn the Penguin Dance

(it would be fun if you upload a video of yourself, or your kids doing it, maybe to the private Rytting facebook page.)

Option 2: Penguin Paint Craft

Penguin Craft PDF

Jen and I tried it out. You use Qtips and paint

If you don't want to use paint you could use markers or whatever other medium you have available. Post your creations in the comments if you want. 

There you go! Have fun learning about Antarctica. If you have snow, go play outside in it and pretend you are in Antarctica.