Volcanic dust shuts down airports

Airports are shutting down and travel plans disrupted due to volcanic dust erupting from a volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull. Another secondary effect is the local flooding in Iceland. See more details here.

World statistics.

Have a look at this link.

Fairtrade chocolate

Read here about how some cocoa farmers have improved their lives as a result of fairtrade and comic relief.

Snow

Look at this stunning image from Nasa showing the UK in big freeze of January 2010.

Geocube

Check this out.

Mayon volcano ready to erupt.

Read more from the BBC

http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-games/latitude-longitude-map-game.php

Play the longitude and latitude game at this site.

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.

Where the Premier League's players come from

Use this interactive world map from the BBC to explore the birthplaces of players in all the current Premier League squads, and then compare them with the start of the 1989-90 season.

Cloud spotting

Learn to recognise cloud types using this simple video guide.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Worldometers

Explore this website showing world statistics.

Northern Lights

Year 7 Fantastic places

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.

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.

Funzone at Manchester Airport

Try some of these travel based activities from Manchester Airport

You can test your locational knowledge here.

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.