Antarctica joins the rest of the World?

Its been all over the news today - The Antarctic Continent is showing the effects of Global Warming. For more details click this link.

So what? I hear you cry - This is significant because until recently scientist had not observed any effects of Global Warming on this continent other than on the Antarctic Peninsula and about 90% of the Earth's Ice is located in Antarctica- swimming!

It is also a significant find as today saw the end of the International Polar Year - for more details on this click this link.

A bit of Historical Geography

Thanks to a pupil in Year 9 for this post: "I found this very interesting website, it gives you the tithe maps of Cheshire; the 1875 os map, the 1910 os map, the modern os map, and aerial views from 2000 and 1970. It also gives you land use maps and plot details. The site also shows you who owned most of the land. Sadly this is all for Cheshire! t will also allow you to search your postcode. Strangely it lets you look at the whole of the os map for the North West of England." Click the image for the website!

Go Bananas this Fairtrade fortnight.

23 February - 8 March

Do your bit to help food producers around the world this fortnight. Two billion people – a third of humanity – still survive on less than $2 a day. Unfair trade rules keep them in poverty, but they face the global challenges of food shortages and climate change too. This year the focus is bananas and the aim is to raise the number of Fairtrade bananas entering the UK by half. So do your bit by clicking this link and sign up to Fairtrade.

Feb half term hols

Well we are off again for another week - yippee! Many of you are going skiing including the school trip to Austria so click this link to see the latest snow reports.For those of you not going away (like me!!!) click on the Games category in the Geog Topics and pass your time playing and learning.

Have a good holiday!

This month's Wide World Magazine

For those of you studying GCSE

This month's contents include:
Improve your grade Aiming for an A*
Clean coal?
Wideworldweb Rising sea levels
Holding the coastline
Aerial view The Ganges-Brahmaputra delta
Focus on… Tropical rainforest
Global ecosystems Tropical rainforest

Copies are in the school library or available from Phillip Allan Publishers.

Free digital OS maps

Yes it is hard to believe but on the Geography Interactive website OS maps of all scales are available. Click the Image below to take you to this amazing resource.

Thanks to the Kingdown Blog for highlighting this resource.

Chalkboards are geography too!

Mapping the spaces on a football pitch has never been easier with the Guardian newspapers interactive chalkboards. You can use geography to help identify the shortcomings of your favourite team. Spatial awareness is paramount for both players and coaches. Analyse all the latest premiership matches here.

Use hard facts and figures to supports your arguments and beat Alan Hansen at his own game.

Victoria Fires

As Britain continues to freeze the Bush Fires of South East Australia continue to reek havoc.
The state of Victoria continues to burn as raging temperatures and driving winds have caused the fires to destroy over 750 homes and kill 108 people.
For more details click this link.

Why is it so cold?

For an answer to this click the image below:

And it's set to get colder as the weekend approaches.

Google earth goes submarine

Take a plunge into the oceans of the world with Google Earth 5.0. In the new ocean layer, you can dive beneath the surface of the ocean, view exclusive content from top marine experts, discover new surf and dive spots, and explore 3D shipwrecks like the Titanic. Download at http://earth.google.com/ocean/

What's new in Review

This quarters Geography Review has arrived it includes articles on:
Shanghai: a global city
Investigating sand dunes
Mapping hazard risk: a case study from Brazil
Online Oil and geography
Population and housing in the UK
Flooding in Ghana

Energy Matters City bikes
Plus much more.
Copies can be found in the school library or you can subscribe by going to Philip Allan Updates

Year 7 Fieldwork

To make the most of your fieldwork why not try to incorporate a few of your ICT skills. With the information you have collected you can now make a map with a colour code to show the type of garden for each property. Easy, just follow the link and then the instructions. Here.

Help and Have Fun

Have a bit of fun and help supply rice to people who really need it by clicking on Free Rice.

Choose your subject (Geography I hope!) but you can also do Art, Maths, Chemistry, Languages or English. For each question you get right 10 grains of rice are donated via the UN world food programme.

For more information about this click this link.

Thanks to Jacob Roberts for showing me this site.