Well done and thank you to Tanith who has set the bar high with this fab Xtranormal movie about the Boscastle Flood... Can you do even better?? Click here and get creating!
Monday, 6 April 2009
Saturday, 4 April 2009
Xtranormal
My first attempt, and a bit rubbish... But dead easy to do... Make some case study ones, send me the URL, and we'll put them on the blog so everyone can benefit!
Saturday, 21 March 2009
The EU
Those of you who were here yesterday spent p2 doing some proper geography - producing a nicely coloured map to show the EU member states and the years that they joined the EU.
We talked about what the EU is, why it was set up, and some of the benefits and disadvantages of being a member.
Lots of info in the Europa Diaries... And more on the EU website here. The EU at a Glance section is particularly useful.
And the "Tour the EU in a minute" video that wasn't cooperating yesterday is available on YouTube (think it needs some music...) and there are various other movies on there that might help with your leaflets. (NB this video was made before 2007, so no mention of Bulgaria and Romania which took the total to 27 member states.)
We talked about what the EU is, why it was set up, and some of the benefits and disadvantages of being a member.
Lots of info in the Europa Diaries... And more on the EU website here. The EU at a Glance section is particularly useful.
And the "Tour the EU in a minute" video that wasn't cooperating yesterday is available on YouTube (think it needs some music...) and there are various other movies on there that might help with your leaflets. (NB this video was made before 2007, so no mention of Bulgaria and Romania which took the total to 27 member states.)
Economic Activity
A variety of interesting musical snippets started the lesson on Monday, and we talked about the classification of economic activity into primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary.
The graph below shows the results of the quick survey we did of your parents' occupations:
How - and why - would this have looked different if we had done the same activity 50 years ago? 150 years ago?
The graph below shows the results of the quick survey we did of your parents' occupations:
How - and why - would this have looked different if we had done the same activity 50 years ago? 150 years ago?
Saturday, 14 March 2009
Sunday, 8 February 2009
Why is there still a development gap?
Some general development-related links that will help with your mini-lessons:
Gapminder
Developments Magazine
World Development Movement
UK Department for International Development
(This is only meant to be a starting point - it's by no means a definitive list! If you find any more that will be useful, leave a comment to share them with everyone else, or email me the URL and I will add to the post.)
Gapminder
Developments Magazine
World Development Movement
UK Department for International Development
(This is only meant to be a starting point - it's by no means a definitive list! If you find any more that will be useful, leave a comment to share them with everyone else, or email me the URL and I will add to the post.)
Development
Apologies for the lack of updates since the DME.
We spent a lesson considering why some parts of the world are more developed than others, and talked about the "rich north and poor south" and the Brandt Line. We also thought about different indicators of development, and whether some of these are more useful than others.
We had a lesson in the computer room to explore the fantastic Gapminder and some of you identified some really interesting patterns and relationships:
We spent a lesson considering why some parts of the world are more developed than others, and talked about the "rich north and poor south" and the Brandt Line. We also thought about different indicators of development, and whether some of these are more useful than others.
We had a lesson in the computer room to explore the fantastic Gapminder and some of you identified some really interesting patterns and relationships:
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