Thanks to Tom Barrett for pointing out this fantastic video. Great resource for assemblies, Geography lessons, Science lessons etc.
BBC Domesday Project
May 14, 2011 By 4 Comments
I’ve spent the morning travelling back in time to my childhood in 1986 via the BBC Domesday Project!
This picture has me intrigued as it’s taken near my school and must be children within about a year of me at school – how quickly the memories fade, I can’t recognise any of them!
- I should probably recognise these kids!
The Story of the Domesday Project
Gapminder Updates – Great for Maths, Science, Geography, Social Studies, History & More!
April 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Scrolling through things I had starred for holiday reading, I noticed that Gapminder.org has been updated. I have blogged previously about Gapminder and the fantastic Hans Rosling, it is a fantastic tool for visualising a wealth of World data on lovely scatter graphs that animate changes through the years.
Watch one of Hans Rosling’s classic TED talks to see what it’s capable of:
There have been a number of great updates which can be seen in this diagram I’ve borrowed from Gapminder.org:
You can see the blog post detailing these on Gapminder, but to summarise: [Read more...]
Lions & Tigers & Whales!
September 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The BBC has started making available clips from their thousands of hours of wildlife documentaries. You can choose which clip you want to watch by filtering your search by Animal, Habitat, Adaptation or Location – Geographical heaven, but obviously could be really useful in a number of subjects. There are 5000 clips available on-line already.
This might be the final death of your school Internet connection – but here’s the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wildlifefinder/
me elsewhere