From Extreme Altitudes to Deepest Ocean
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Regional Climate in Brazil
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A resource suitable for Key Stage 3 students (aged 11 to 14 years) studying Brazil as a topic within Geography. Introduces the climate of Amazonia, centred on Manaus, through a ‘living graph’ activity and then provides a chance to create a climate graph, with instructions, of the coastal lowlands in South East Brazil. Brazil –…
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Image: bbc This interactive, hosted on bbc.co.uk, is good for studies in Geography, Economics, and more. It is a quick way into the type of visual data offered by Gapminder.org The interactive dataset lets the user track a number of Asian countries as their wealth / income grows between 1960 and 2006, and compares the…
Resources to Help Learners Understand the 2011 Tohuku Earthquake and Tsunami
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Almost all of these resources have been linked to by educators using Twitter, and should help learners to deepen their understanding of the disaster that occurred on 11th March 2011, and its aftermath. Note on reliability: These resources were collected here on 20th March 2011 and so only include information available on or before that…
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The world’s most typical person is male and in terms of the mode average ethnic group, is a Chinese, Han man. His age, in terms of median average is 28. The typical face shown above is built of 190 000 photos of 28 year old ethnic Han men. But as the video tells us, he…
Visions of Continental Drift on Fast Forward
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What would continental drift look like on extreme fast-forward. These video clips are partly based on science, partly imagination. The (pre)historical part of these videos are hopefully based on research by Geologists. The predictions beyond the present day can be no more than pure speculation (especially this one that envisages a pangaea (single land mass)…
The Rural Urban Fringe
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Image: Some rights reserved by Aaron Villescas™ Using thorough research (referring to web sites, text book(s), and your own notes (including any notes on relevant videos you have watched)), answer the following questions: 1) What changes are taking place at the Rural Urban Fringe as a result of urbanisation? Make sure you refer to: urban…
Settlement Hierarchy
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‘Eat Local ‘ Government Advertising Domestic Produce
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Create an Infographic for Millennium Development Goal 3
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What is an infographic? It is a visual way of showing information (data) data so that it is easy to understand. They help to explain complicated information clearly and quickly. An infographic can be a video or a picture (like a poster). Here is a video infographic explaining the 8 Millennium Development Goals and why…
