tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102811272011-06-08T06:28:53.013Z<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> It's Miss Lowe's online internet resource that provides you with interesting links to the wider world of Geography! Some of the links are related to your courses and others are there simply for your interest.bungershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17318429635315229836noreply@blogger.comBlogger641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10281127.post-35874738837584483802007-11-13T21:39:00.000Z2007-11-13T21:45:41.458Z

Find out more about BoKlok homes being built in Gateshead. BoKlok involves providing space-saving, functional and high quality properties at a price that enables as many people as possible to afford a comfortable home. First pioneered in Sweden by furniture company IKEA and construction firm Skanska, BoKlok has now arrived in the UK.BoKlok, roughly translated, means ’live smart' and its concept

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Test this one out in class:World Map

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Drag the names of the countries onto the correct locations on the map:Map Game

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This is a link to the Government's "Act on CO2" carbon calculator:http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk/index.htmlVisit the site to work out your carbon footprint.

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BBC resources for greenbelt issues

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A Profile of the World — Infoplease.com

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Renewables, ground source heat, etc... HERE!!

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This is pretty cool. Perhaps you could use it on a whiteboard and produce some mindmaps based on what you know about a subject? http://bubbl.us/Once you have created an account you can produce brainstorms online. You can then share these brainstorms with other ‘friends’ who also have accounts.You can start the mind mapping on the classroom computer/IWB and then shared it with your students so

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Population Linkswww.prb.org The Population Reference Bureau.www.un.org UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs - Population Division.www.peopleandplanet.net 'This provides a global gateway to the greatest issue of our time: the future health and wellbeing of the human family as it presses ever more heavily on the natural resources of our planet.'

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Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is the most populous city in India, and is one of the biggest cities in the world with an estimated population of about 13 million (they think!).Dharavi is one of Asia's largest slums, and it's up for sale. Some of India's biggest property developers are set to bid for tenders to develop it.Mumbai officials hope to see Dharavi transformed into a tourist

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Hello again! Now we're back after the holidays, and here's a game all about Recycling:http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/dumptown.htm

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Worksheet explaining Relief and Contour lines...HERE.

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Fun game to help with 4 figure and 6 figure grid referencesMapZone - Homework Help - Maptivity - Grid references

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These might be useful one day.

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This is interesting: Two photographers have traveled the world to meet "average" families and report on their dietary habits, then taken photos of the families with their weekly food totals.Link.Check it out!

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An interesting little site that features representations of the world map with re-sized proportions - based on factors such as population, HIV prevalence and wealth:Here's a preview of one for purchasing power:Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it beforevia Ian @ Amazing Grades

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Did you know that every 6,000 miles a car travels, it produces its own weight in CO2?There are 30 million cars in the UK and each car is driven on average 9,000 miles a year.That's a lot of CO2 being pumped into our air.These photos show some examples of current electric hybrid models:Toyota PriusWhat are hybrid electric vehicles?Hybrid vehicles are powered by a combination of a petrol or diesel

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A plan to create a £24m wood-fuelled energy plant is closer to being built after securing more than £5m of government funding.If it goes ahead, the combined heat and power plant will be capable of heating 20,000 homes a year.The biomass scheme will use wood fibre to produce steam to make electricity.Heat generated during this process will be used to manufacture 100,000 tonnes of wood pellets a

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Lots (one hundred) ways to conserve energy, use less water protect our air and create less rubbish. It's...100 Ways to Save the EnvironmentHuzzah for saving the environment!

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Really useful links all about Climate Change. Includes latest news, a slideshow, what we can do to fight climate change, the impact climate change will have on us and the causes. More on climate change | Climate change | Guardian Unlimited EnvironmentReally useful site with lots of information.

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Tense anniversary in French suburbsClichy-sous-Bois, is a drab suburb in the north-east of Paris, scene of the deaths of two local teenagers who died and sparked three weeks of rioting across France's largely immigrant suburbs. Cedric Lignier, 18 Clichy-sous-BoisIf more was done to help youths, they would sell fewer drugs. But it’s difficult to get work.As soon as employers see our faces, they

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A supercell is a severe thunderstorm with a deep rotating updraft (called a mesocyclone).Check out these amazing photos of a supercell thunderstorm in Nebraska:May 28, 2004 Highway 12 Supercell-ne NebraskaMore about supercells.More awesome storm pictures at extremeinstability.com

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"Britain's biggest cave discovered "

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Today, I have mostly been investigating...This site has lots of powerpoint resources here that are really amazing, including the rivers millionaire game, the car park geography catchphrase game, and the animation showing how stacks form.There's also a really in depth section called Juicy Geography's Google Earth page for teachers. Which is all about the fantastic Google Earth. Juicy Geography is

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Seed Magazine is cool. It's kind of like New Scientist, but easier to understand. Our overarching goal is the nurturing of a science-savvy global citizenry by increasing public interest in and understanding of science.Sounds good to me. Here's the best bit:Scientific issues and innovations seem to creep into everyday conversation more than ever before.Recognizing that we could all use some

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Britain is facing a chronic shortage of geophysicists as fewer students choose to study geophysical science at university and leading scientists in the field retire, a new study reveals.The problem has reached crisis point and if the current rates of decline continue there will be no geophysics undergraduates by 2030, the British Geophysical Association report warns.EducationGuardian.co.uk |

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Find all the weird, cool, beautiful places on the planet with Google Earth. Google Earth Cool Places - famous buildings, beautiful places, weird land formations

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The Aleutian Islands and the Alaskan peninsula are shown in this image acquired by the MODIS on the Terra satellite, on May 25th, 2006. The Aleutian Islands, with 57 volcanoes among them, are in the northern part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.Stunning High Resolution Image (JPEG Image, 5600x4400 pixels)

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Free sample GCSE question about rivers:GCSE Geog Physical 1 Example.pdf You have to buy the real papers, and they're between £5 and £7. This one is a free question about waterfalls and flooding, so it could be useful as a practice question in class. via www.examinationgroup.com

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Nice Google Map showing information about active vocanoes: Active Volcanos - Google Maps API Example

Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06441305310687025726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10281127.post-1149506971431055392006-06-05T11:29:00.000Z2006-06-05T11:29:31.440Z

Despite the difficulties inherent in predicting climate changes over decades and centuries, Earth's longer term forecast is simple: Same as the last million years.Million-Year Forecast: Disasters Galore

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Mount St. Helens Shoots Steam, Ash Plume Into Air

Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06441305310687025726noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10281127.post-1148304764814216522006-05-22T13:32:00.000Z2006-05-22T13:42:26.796Z

Here's one for you:The government says that by 2020 it wants all schools to be "models of energy efficiency and renewable energy" and provide "healthy, local and sustainable food and drink produced or prepared on site".British Schools Must Go GreenCarrington Junior School in Buckinghamshire, have a wind turbine at the end of the playing field. School goes green with turbineThe level of power

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More solar cooking shennanigans...The Solar Cooking Archive

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Treehugger: Solar Oven

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More than 30 countries around the Pacific Ocean have tested a system to warn them of approaching tsunamis.Read more here.Here's a handy animation that shows how the Asian Tsunami happened. Click on the picture below!

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Printable Maps of the United States.

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Tarn (lake) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTriad Lake in Glacier Peak Wilderness (click picture for wiki page and image credits)A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a corrie excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn. (A corrie may be called a cirque.)More images of tarns here. via Google image searchThis is a page with a picture and a map

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DOZENS of the world’s cities, including London and New York, could be flooded by the end of the century, according to research which suggests that global warming will increase sea levels more rapidly than was previously thought.London 'under water by 2100' as Antarctica crumbles into the sea

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Ever wonder what a Drumlin was? Here's a glossary featuring all the terms you might associate with glaciers, from the website All About Glaciers.

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The Northern California earthquake of April 18, 1906, commonly referred to as the “Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906", is the most damaging earthquake in US history.This virtual tour utilizes the geographic interactive software Google Earth to explain the scientific, engineering, and human dimensions of this earthquake, so as to help you visualize and understand the causes and effects of

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Interesting stuff here, will investigate later and post a review. :)Welcome to the GeographyPages - home of Geo Blogs

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The government is to give England's schools almost £2m over two years to encourage children to study geography.Maybe they should start reading Geography Resources Online!BBC NEWS | Education | £2m to halt decline in geography

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From Wired News, here are America's Most Polluted Cities

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"British suburbs are being neglected and need to be nurtured" according to a think tank.Suburbs 'in need of renovation'Recommendations will include the creation of more communal spaces and the setting up of car-washing circles.

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Molten rock below the surface of the earth is called magma. When this molten rock erupts onto the surface, it is called lava.The type of lava is determined by the percentage of silica in the lava.This page explains more about types of lava.

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A hydrothermal vent is a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water is released. Hydrothermal vents are commonly found in places that are also volcanically active, where hot magma is relatively near the planet's surface, e.g. at mid-ocean ridges.Here is a definition and more information:Hydrothermal vent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHere are some pictures of

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Everyone who has been to the beach knows that seawater is salty.Everyone also knows that fresh water in rain, rivers, and even ice is not salty. Why are some of Earth’s waters salty and others not?Why is the sea salty?

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Tony Philpotts via msnbcADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopian, American and European researchers have observed a fissure in a desert in the remote northeast that could be the "birth of a new ocean basin".Scientists watch for birth of a new sea

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Photo Gallery by Jean-Pierre Scherrer

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Need a GB outline for a report? Want to show what county you live in? Look no further!Ordnance Survey is now providing a selection of free, downloadable, basic small-scale maps of Great Britain for you to use for your own purpose. GB outlines with and without administrative boundaries are available in EPS, TIF, PDF, GIF and WMF format; download the style and format of your choice to use in your

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There are some good web sites explaining this: http://www.angliacampus.com/tour/sec/geog/coastal/page07.htmDetailed explanation of headland development http://www.rgs.edu.sg/events/geotrip/bay.html Excellent on the formation of headland and bays with animations http://www.rgs.edu.sg/events/geotrip/stack.html Excellent on the development of caves, arches and stacks on headlands with animations

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Interactive animations from the BBC. Find out why the Gulf Stream might slow and how the greenhouse effect works.Here.

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A sulfurous steam plume, hundreds of miniature earthquakes and a new swath of ash on snowy Augustine Volcano have scientists looking for a possible eruption in the next few months. Alaskan Volcano Showing Signs of Erupting

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Mystery Bulge in Oregon Still Growing

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Excellent volcano video showing the eruption process.This is another link, with audio.

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Here are a couple of links to good rainforest resources. .www.rainforesteducation.comHere are some graphs and images that can be used to illustrate deforestation:(Click on the image for full size)Figure 1: The current level of forest cover now remaining in the Brazilian Amazon.This study provides an "optimistic" and "non-optimistic" scenario that predicts Brazilian Rainforests degradation by 2020

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Here is the home page of www.whitescarcave.co.uk.Features an interactive tour!

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Follow up from the Asian Tsunami. Full story from the National Geographic website.

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Category : resources, drought, global warming Global warming is reaching the point-of-no-return, with widespread drought, crop failure and water shortages the likely result, according to a new international report highlighted in the British press. Read the full story here

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Category : tsunamis, natural disasters, documentary Two programmes to be shown on Monday 24 January 2005 DISPATCHES LIVE SPECIAL: AFTER THE TSUNAMI The Asian Tsunami Disaster should make us stop and think about how our government spends our money in the rest of the world. Jon Snow chairs a live debate about policies that permit billions of pound to be spent on the occupation of Iraq and

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Category : volcanoes, natural disasters, documentary Channel 4 : Saturday 22 January 2005 KRAKATOA As Asia struggles to come to terms with the terrible consequences of the tsunami of Boxing Day 2004, Channel 4 looks at the history, science and politics of the tsunami in three programmes this week. The first of is a two-hour film about the eruption of Krakatoa. 121 years ago, this same

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Category : poverty, farming, soil erosion This article from the Independent, dated Tuesday 18th January, details how farmers are given training in basic agricultural methods transforming the productivity of over one hundred acres of land. Aymiro Gedamu, a coffee farmer in the steep northern highlands of Ethiopia, used to dread the rain: every year it washed away his livelihood. Like most

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