Two videos to support the LiveEarth event on the 7th of July. The first is basically an advertisement, Morse code is used by people to warn of the coming climate crisis.
The second is two opposing views of climate change by children, would make a great little starter or discussion point.
I’m reserving judgement on LiveEarth for the moment….
Hat tip Houtlust.
National Geographic have a channel on YouTube, they also allow the embedding of videos, when will the B.B.C do this? A nice introduction to Global Warming.
National Geographic have a channel on YouTube, they also allow the embedding of videos, when will the B.B.C do this? A nice introduction to Global Warming.
I’ve enjoyed playing with Picture Dots today, basically an online website that allows you to produce your own dot to dot puzzles. It’s easy to use and when finished you can download a PDF of your creation. Here’s an example of one I created. Which country is this?
How could be use this? It could make a fun little starter, I’ve copied my image and pasted it into PowerPoint, a kind of mystery starter for a country study, a student could come up to the IWB and solve it, alternatively they might like a fun little exercise for revising diagrams. How about getting students to create them?
Programme tonight on B.B.C.2 at 9.00 p.m.,pensioners become rock stars, serious issues here, how do we treat and look after elderly people in the United Kingdom? Birth rates are falling and the population is increasingly becoming elderly, this means fewer workers, this active part of the population contributes tax, that funds the services that are used by both young and elderly dependants, for example the National Health Service.
There are a number of reasons for an increasingly grey society in the United Kingdom…
This ageing population will have impacts for all of us….
How do we pay for the care of the elderly? Who pays for healthcare and pensions?
How do we get the necessary workers to run our services and work in industry?
Will we have to work longer? Will we be willing to work longer? The Government says so…
Will younger workers be prepared to pay higher taxes for support an increasingly elderly population?
Nice video 
Programme tonight on B.B.C.2 at 9.00 p.m.,pensioners become rock stars, serious issues here, how do we treat and look after elderly people in the United Kingdom? Birth rates are falling and the population is increasingly becoming elderly, this means fewer workers, this active part of the population contributes tax, that funds the services that are used by both young and elderly dependants, for example the National Health Service.
There are a number of reasons for an increasingly grey society in the United Kingdom…
This ageing population will have impacts for all of us….
How do we pay for the care of the elderly? Who pays for healthcare and pensions?
How do we get the necessary workers to run our services and work in industry?
Will we have to work longer? Will we be willing to work longer? The Government says so…
Will younger workers be prepared to pay higher taxes for support an increasingly elderly population?
Nice video
Another little geographical simulation to have a play with, Fantasy Farmer, let me know how you get on. This time you’re managing a farm in the United Kingdom.
I have to admit that I struggled, perhaps I was looking too deeply into the Aliens and crop circles, but my advice is to keep your food supply up…
On my first go I managed a profit of £20,270 and a farm value of £75,3477.
Hat Tip Alan Parkinson
Another little geographical simulation to have a play with, Fantasy Farmer, let me know how you get on. This time you’re managing a farm in the United Kingdom.
I have to admit that I struggled, perhaps I was looking too deeply into the Aliens and crop circles, but my advice is to keep your food supply up…
On my first go I managed a profit of £20,270 and a farm value of £75,3477.
Hat Tip Alan Parkinson
Rob has just finished a brilliant mini-unit on Israel for us, his first task for students is a jigsaw puzzle of the main geographical features of the country. He has used a piece of freeware called Formulator Tarsia, from the Hermitech Laboratory, originally designed to create maths problems, but it has a number of cross-curricular applications.
Once downloaded and installed, it is relatively simple to use, it took me about twenty minutes to get the hang of it, you can choose from three types of puzzle, jigsaw, dominoes and card.
When you have chosen your puzzle type, you can type in the contents for your puzzle, this is in the input screen, when you have completed one field, click on the next number in the sidebar and a new input field will appear.
You can check your puzzle contents by clicking the table tab at the bottom of the screen.
Clicking on the output tab will reveal the puzzle that students will be given, of course, you could cut these up before the lesson, but the puzzle will already be unsorted.
Clicking on the solution tab will reveal the solution to your puzzle; particularly useful if you don’t want to solve it yourself, or want to provide students who are struggling with the finished answer.
You can print off the pages, with the exception of the input page, I haven’t got a printer so I use Primo PDF to print to a PDF file , this means I can print it later, as well as saving an electronic copy in this format.
You can save your puzzle by pressing the disc icon, but you will not be able to open these on a College computer, this file will only be recognised by the Tarsia programme, hence the need to print a copy.
This is an example of a parquet jigsaw of 12 pieces that I produced on European capitals, of course this is the solution!
What I really like about the programme is that you can insert images, here is an example of an 8 piece dominoes activity solution, that I produced using Ordnance Survey map symbols.
To insert images, in the input screen, click on the image icon at the top of the screen. The image is automatically resized for the puzzle, so you need to think carefully about the quality of the image you use.
I think this has legs, it could be used to produce simple a starter or plenary exercise, alternatively a more complex puzzle could be produced as a mini-topic review.
Let me know what you think…
A bit of a test to see if I can embed Teacher Tube videos into the blog. I thought this was a simple idea which might come in useful for someone.
