Books...

A couple of people have asked about the books I mentioned last week...

One was AS and A Level Geography Through Diagrams... there's a newer version than the one I have...

The other was The Complete A-Z Geography Handbook by Malcolm Skinner, David Redfern and Geoff Farmer. Again, my copy is an old version.

Please remember though, if you buy either of these books, that they are general ones - not written for any particular specification, and so there will be things in there that are not on our spec!

Park Hill Flats

Just been looking for the Urban Splash brochure for Park Hill Flats that I mentioned today, but unfortunately (unless I am looking in the wrong place) it seems to have been taken off their website. However...

There's an interesting post from Alan's blog here, some superb photos and video clips about life at Park Hill from the BBC's South Yorkshire site and Sheffield City Council has a site with plenty of information about the plans to "achieve a mixed tenure, mixed use, transformation of Park Hill as a fashionable city centre address"... A fair bit of work to do before that happens, methinks!!

Planet Earth Explorer

Not sure why I have not seen this one before! Planet Earth Explorer is an interactive globe linked to some stunning video footage - including aerial footage of Erta Ale, sandstorms in the Sahara, the Yucatan Cenotes (is this what you were asking about the other day Anna?), and lots of impressive wildlife.

Marshmallows....

Or what sad geography teachers do on Sunday afternoons...

Let's hope there's some marshmallows left for a demonstration on Tuesday!

Quarry or not?

I mentioned to you today about the Quarry or Not? event at the British Geological Survey in June... There is a report here from last year's event, and if you click on the picture below, it will take you to the "trailer" that I had intended to show you this afternoon.

Our eight places have been confirmed, so we just need to decide now who gets the golden tickets!

Air pressure

A nice summary from the BBC of air pressure here.

A reminder of the egg experiment:


How To Suck An Egg Into A Bottle


And the ruler/newspaper one:


How To Put A Ruler Under Pressure

Remember that we need to think back to Friday's lesson and the unequal heating of the earth's surface to understand why areas of high and low pressure develop.

Have a look here at the pressure charts and the surface pressure forecast, and have a go at predicting how the weather will change over the next few days!

6 hours of Geography!

Dan Raven-Ellison and a team of Geography students, teachers and academics are the next act to take part in BBC3's Upstaged... Click on the picture to find out more about their ideas...

Dan and the team will be entertaining the nation with 6 hours of Geography, starting at 3.30pm tomorrow (Tuesday)... You can watch - and rate their performance, send in questions, etc. online, and there will be a highlights show on BBC3.