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A B.B.C. documentary about the impact of Cyclone Sidr three months on, I think I’ll return and use this later in the year. It will compliment well the Bangladesh resources that I produced on my return from Bangladesh.

Have a go at the simulation on Hurricanes and record your scores below, the aim is for you to prepare an island for an approaching tropical storm, this will aid your assessment work on Cyclone Sidr. There will be a prize for the best score, you can try as many times as you wish. Please use first names only, your email address is not made public and can only be seen by myself, please use your College address.

Best of luck.

P.S. the educational stimulation is currently blocked at College, but I’m working on it.

Have a go at the simulation on Hurricanes and record your scores below, the aim is for you to prepare an island for an approaching tropical storm, this will aid your assessment work on Cyclone Sidr. There will be a prize for the best score, you can try as many times as you wish. Please use first names only, your email address is not made public and can only be seen by myself, please use your College address.

Best of luck.

P.S. the educational stimulation is currently blocked at College, but I’m working on it.

Thanks to Alan, who pointed me in the direction of this great video, well worth spending the ten minutes to view,useful for year 9 and their next topic, coasts.

Hot on the heels of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth , a new environmental disaster documentary, this time featuring Leonardo DiCaprio.

I’ve been having a play with Animoto this evening, it allows you to produce impressive looking videos of your images. You only upload images and if you wish music, the website does all the hard work mixing the final product. I uploaded from my flickr account and used the music available. Short movies are free. This video shows images from our Japanese Exchange.

Hat-tip Justin Medved

Thanks to Tom Biebrach for highlighting these images of Japanese paddy field art.

The Hums Learning Hub, has some great examples of Japanese loyalty songs, which reminds me that our Japanese exchange visitors will be with us soon…

Thanks to online friend Lucy Cottam for pointing me in the direction of the these images. These are examples of cultural jamming, where an individual or group changes the original message of an advertisement, to reflect what they believe is the true impact of producing the product or service .

By Zoe O’Connor

Usually the subverted advertisements are in highly public places to increase their impact and audience.

By Zoe O’Connor

Such anti-consumerists are also concerned about the impact of ad-creep, advertisements dominating not only public spaces, but increasingly private places as well. They believe that such consumerism encouraged by advertisements has a negative effect on the individual, linking consumerism with personal empowerment, not only are our consumer landscapes becoming similar, but our cultural landscapes are increasingly a reflection of our consumption; our identity is linked to what we buy…

For more see the Adbusters website.

Welcome Year 9…

Year 9 have just begun studying weather and climate. This summary is to help you complete the homework task,

‘Factors which affect ’Una UK’s climate’ ‘.

In class we have discussed a number of factors which affect climate in the United Kingdom.

Relief

Places where the land is higher have cooler temperatures.

Albedo

Some surfaces reflect more heat than others, ice is a good example, it reflects the vast majority of the heat it receives.

Continentality

Remember that landmasses heat and cool much quicker than the sea. Coastal areas therefore tend to be a little cooler in summer, as sea is still warming,  winds travelling across the sea will therefore bring a cooling breeze.

Differential Heating.

There are two parts to this concept. At the Equator the sun rays cover a smaller surface area, therefore heating is more efficient and it becomes warmer. This is due to the tilt and curvature of the Earth. At the North and South Poles, the sun’s rays cover a larger surface area, therefore the heating is less efficient and it is cooler.

But, the volume of atmosphere that the sun’s rays has to travel through is also less at the Equator compared to the North or South Pole, therefore more heat is received by the surface of the Earth.

Gulf Stream or North Atlantic Drift.

This is a warm current of water, which travels from the Gulf of Mexico, our prevailing wind, from the South-West, travels over this and brings a warming wind. You can imagine it warming the toes of the British Isles. This is why we see a change in temperature pattern in the winter, as we more further South-West the temperature is warmer.