BBC Climate Challenge – The Earth’s Future in Your Hands

Climate Challenge

Earth’s future is in your hands

A game where you are president of the European Nations. You must tackle climate change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office.

Climate Change Summit in Bali 2007

BBC Climate Summit in Bali

Stop Disasters Game

Have a go at this great ISDR Game. You can plan to reduce the impact of a variety of different natural disasters and play at a range of levels of difficulty – I started on the easiest.

Stop Disasters Game

Gapcasts and Gapminder

If you haven’t checked out this site yet ,you really must. You can download the Gapcasts onto your iPod or computer.

 

Gapcasts

This is a great site whether you are a Human or Physical Geographer.

Gapminder

Revision Podcasts

Podcasting is an excellent way to revise for many people. You should aim to create your podcasts early so that you can start to use them well before the exams. Remember your podcast script needs to be concise yet contain the facts,figures and vocabulary that the examiners are looking for to award higher exam grades. If you’d like me to read your scripts before you record I’d be happy to.

Flooding Threat to Coastal Areas in the East of England

 

Hope you did what I did this morning as soon as I heard about the flood threat – check out the BBC News website; look for the latest surface pressure chart and satellite photo on the Met Office website.

 

People were especially worried about this flood threat in case there was a repeat of the disastrous flooding which happened in the East of England in 1953. The floods of 1953 are a classic case study which you should be able to detail – if you can’t check out the link below.

The 1953 East Coast Floods

Floods in Mexico November 2007 ‘ Just like New Orleans.’

Devastating floods have hit Mexico this week. Visit the BBC news link to find out more. Use the information to compile a case study for your Hazards file.

 

Floods in Mexico

Tabasco Floods in Pictures

Californian Fires October 2007

Have you been following the media coverage of the Californian fires in the papers and on the television? If you haven’t check out the BBC link below. There are lots of articles, photos, maps and videos which you can use to construct a case study for your Hazards exam paper.

BBC Californian Fires

National Geographic Video Clips

Visit the link below for a whole range of mini video clips on a variety of topics ranging from Natural Hazards to Global Warming to eating rat! The clips are very concise and only a couple of minutes long ,let me know which ones you find most useful.

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/environment-natural-disasters/landslides-and-more/floods.html

Blog to Success

More rain for flood hit Africa

I’ll post current news items which I think you should know about on this home page for a week as they happen . I’ll move them one week later to another page.

Use this blog to help reinforce the work you do in class and to help extend your knowledge and understanding. In some ways it will prove a more valuable resource than your text book as we can make it ‘bang up to-date!’

I’ll post resources which link to the work we are going to do on Weather and Climate; Ecosystems ; Natural Hazards ; Rivers and Coasts.