Read more from the BBC
Monday 21 December 2009
Sunday 15 November 2009
http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-games/latitude-longitude-map-game.php
Play the longitude and latitude game at this site.
Tuesday 22 September 2009
Free maps from Ordnance Survey have arrived.
All year 7 will be receiving their free map from Ordnance Survey in the next week.
Online Multimap lets you can find your home using Ordnance Survey maps.
Have a go here.
Just add your postcode and then click on OS Map.
Thursday 13 August 2009
Saturday 1 August 2009
Friday 24 July 2009
Shanghai urges 'two-child policy'
Shanghai is encouraging all residents who are exempted from the one child policy to have a second baby. This is because they are having to cope with an ageing population. More information from the BBC here.
Friday 10 July 2009
Discovering the Arctic
Here is a new website about the Arctic. Explore the site. year 7 will find information about the Northern Lights we looked at this summer. Year 10 will find the effects of climate change on the Arctic useful for their GCSE work.
Sunday 28 June 2009
Glastonbury
Glastonbury Festival aims to be green and clean. Their slogan is Love the Farm,Leave no trace. Find out more from their web site.
Labels:
GCSE,
Leisure and Tourism,
Year 10,
year 11,
Year 9
Saturday 18 April 2009
Modern day pirates
World leaders are increasingly concerned by pirates operating off the coast of Somalia, who have seized several ships recently, demanding ransom payments to free them. The BBC news website tell the story.
Thursday 16 April 2009
Tuesday 14 April 2009
Monday 6 April 2009
Earthquake hits Italy
An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale has hit Italy. The earthquake struck at around 3.30am on 6th April 60 miles North west of Rome. The centre of the quake was in a city called L'Aquila. News reports are just coming in saying there are fatalities and over 100000 people will have to be evacuated. More news here.
Saturday 7 March 2009
The Breathing Earth simulation
This facinating site shows birth rates and death rates in real time. Click on the countries to find individual data. it also shows CO2 emissions.
Tuesday 17 February 2009
Funzone at Manchester Airport
Try some of these travel based activities from Manchester Airport
You can test your locational knowledge here.
Saturday 17 January 2009
weather forecast.
Low pressure in the Atlantic will bring depression and gales this weekend. The Met office site has all weather details, pressure systems and satellite animations.
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