Geography is fantastic!

It’s never too early to start!

geotastic — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:37:53 +0000

Where is Matt?

geotastic — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:53:22 +0000

This amazing video has had over 6 million views! Interesting look at different places around the world

Watch the out-takes – even better…!

Powerpoint

geotastic — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:10:11 +0000

A kind teacher has created this to share for more information

Recent events

geotastic — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:00:14 +0000

Well what a tragic week it has been. 4 people have died as a result of the terrific rain and subsequent flooding in the north of England. we will be looking at this as an example of why floods happen, what the effects are and how they can be managed.

Some useful websites:

BBC News in Pictures

BBC Readers’ photos

Sky News

Sky News Interactive Map

The Environment Agency

The Environment Agency – what to do in a flood

Check out BBC Bitesize to revise flooding

Boscastle flood

geotastic — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:56:03 +0000

This week we are studying a flood in an MEDC, Boscastle in August 2004.

We will look to find answers:

What happened? Where did it happen? Why did it happen? What were the effects? How can the area be managed?

Articles.

There is plenty of information out there about this flood.

* Check out this bbc article for information about why the flood occurred

* The flood even has its own wiki

* listen to what villagers had to say

* visit the Parish Website

* in pictures then and now

* more pics

This week has seen rain causing problems in Northampton as well, read this article from the local paper. In 1998 the Easter floods caused millions of punds worth of damage. Easter flood 1998

Fun water cycle bits!

geotastic — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:31:15 +0000

We have now moved onto the Water Cycle and will investigate 2 case studies of flooding. What is the water cycle? Watch this advert from Evian – not much to do with the water cycle but fun anyway!

A bit more educational…

Visit the Singing Science Songs website to hear the best (in my opinion!) Download and listen to it – almost as good as Mt St Helens!

http://www.acme.com/jef/singing_science/water_cycle-32.mp3

Look here for more information http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercyclehi.html

Print out Water cycle dominoes cut them up and try to match the key word to its meaning

Try this Crossword Puzzle

Play water-cycle-blankety-blank.ppt

Find out loads of extra stuff here – have a look! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2003/world_forum/water/default.stm

Watch Geography on TV

geotastic — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:15:22 +0000

Don’t miss your favourite subject on TV…check out this guide

http://www.skylearning.co.uk/Leader.aspx?SubjectId=3

there’s more out there than you realise!!

Photos

geotastic — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:29:43 +0000

You’ve sung the song….

You’ve seen the film…

Now…see the photos of Year 9 & 10 making volcanoes…its not clean!

Stage1: make the volcano…

| View Show | Create Your Own

Stage 2: paint the volcano

| View Show | Create Your Own

Stage 3: erupt the volcano

| View Show | Create Your Own

Just for fun!

geotastic — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:28:54 +0000

What sort of world looks like this? Can you guess?

The world as you have never seen it before! Visit www.worldmapper.com for some very interesting data.

Pants through the years….

I think this is great! Find out more about global warming here…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/global_warming1.shtml

Try this quiz…see if you can see which part of the world is missing. Be observant!

Watch this animation to see the effects of a hurricane…

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=18340

You might like to play this simulation game! Let me know what you think…

http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/

Geography in the News

geotastic — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:52:12 +0000

Saturday 28th April 2007

What is Karol from Dover talking about?

Just before the earth shook there was a deep rumbling noise and the whole of our street shook in an east-west motion.

The seagulls went crazy and in parts of Dover the electricity is off.

This morning at 8.18am there was an earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale, 7.5 miles off the coast from Folkestone in Kent in the English Channel.

Find out all about it here…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6602677.stm

Look at pictures…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6603129.stm

Possible wider impacts…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/6603547.stm

Wacth a movie here…

http://blip.tv/file/get/Adtastic2001-KentEarthquake809.wmv

Videos from Sky

http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/fullscr?videoRef=http://skynews-clips.videoloungetv.com/public/skynews/latest/flash/analysis_280407_1000.flv

http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/fullscr?videoRef=http://skynews-clips.videoloungetv.com/public/skynews/latest/flash/quakeshots_280407_1000.flv

http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/fullscr?videoRef=http://skynews-clips.videoloungetv.com/public/skynews/latest/flash/damage_280407_1100.flv

http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/fullscr?videoRef=http://skynews-clips.videoloungetv.com/public/skynews/latest/flash/eyewitness1_280407_0900.flv

Check out here to find out recent earthquakes – you’ll be suprised!

http://tsunami.geo.ed.ac.uk/local-bin/quakes/mapscript/home.pl

Other news

What impact are YOU having on the planet? Statistics from the Human Footprint programme shown on Channel 4 are avaiable. There is also a nice human footrpint calculator to have a play with…

http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/H/human_footprint/index.html

In your lifetime you will comsume

* 4239 toilet rolls

* 845 tins of baked beans

* 1 million litres of water in baths

* 24 trees to make the books and newspapers you read

* 10,000 bars of chocolate

Which record has been broken this month?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6598953.stm