One of our first tasks was to look around the room for clues about our imaginary workplace. We looked for clues about what kind of people we were going to pretend to be, and what kind of work we were going to be doing. We read newspaper articles and looked at photos about marine research in the Southern Ocean, which were on a newsboard. We also looked at renovation plans for our workplace building, folders of classification cards for different types of plankton and other animals in the marine food web, and different types of maps including deep sea maps, world maps and maps of Antarctica.
