Climate Change

Click on the picture above to learn more about climate change.

Weather Games

Year 7, as you are working towards the end of your unit of work on weather. I have found a few websites that will help you to learn about weather, but hopefully with a bit of added fun as well!

All of the websites below contain games that are based around your weather topic. Enjoy playing the games, and learn about the weather at the same time.

Weatherwiz Kids

BBC Weather games

The Lake District National Park CONFLICT

The impact of tourism in the Lake District on farming, house
prices, traffic and employment

The pressure of tourism, the need for conservation of the
landscape and the conflicts of interest caused, with reference to
footpath erosion and the development of “honey pot” sites, to
include a case study of one honey pot site.

Click here for additional notes.

Tourism in a Glacial Environment: The Lake District National Park

During this unit of work you should be able to describe and explain the major glacial landscape features of the Lake District: upland glaciation, including the processes of frost shattering, plucking and abrasion, leading to the formation of corries, arêtes, glacial troughs, and ribbon lakes.

Click here for notes and diagrams to help support your notes.

Migration

Moving Here is an extremely powerful and moving resource designed to help explore the experience of migration and settlement in England over the last 200 years. Click on and have a look!

Create your own blog site

Hi all,

As promised from today's staff meeting, please follow the link for the guide on how to create your own blog site.
Thanks to John Barlow at Archbishop Blanch for his notes!

http://www.box.net/shared/pg7msmt9su

Earthquake Shakes Southern England

An earthquake measuring 4.3 hit the south of England on Saturday 28th April.
Use the link below to read more

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1263216,00.html