Geography and all that Jazz

Box clever.... Image by Flickr user splorp under Creative Commons The BBC have branded a shipping container , and have fitted it with various GPS tracking devices, and are about to follow it as it travels around the world... Last year, I produced a resource looking at the use of the SHIPPING CONTAINER as a box that changed the world. This came out of a book by Sarah Murray called MOVEABLE FEASTS . Click the logo below to go to the book's accompanying website... Click THIS LINK to download a PDF from the Moveable Feasts site which looks at the birth of the shipping container... At the moment, the BBC's branded box is in Southampton, but you can track it's progress on this MAP. Its first journey is apparently a lorry trip up to Scotland to be loaded with whisky.... Mmmmm.... whisky.... There is a page with all the relevant information and weblinks. I suggested on the Edexcel NING that teachers could perhaps use this as a method of exploring the idea of GLOBALISATION ......

A pottering day, but Geography came in as always... Out to the opticians as needed an eye check: fortunately my IWB projector doesn't seem to have made a difference to my eyesite but apparently my ability to focus is on the way out, just part of getting old... Ordered new glasses as my existing ones snapped a few days ago (hence the Jack Duckworth reference in an earlier post) Weather was very changeable today. Free Horrid Henry for my daughter with the Times. A few books catching my eye in book shop: interested in Richard Girling's 'Sea Change': a useful resource to download as well with an extract HERE . (PDF download) Richard Girling article in THE TIMES on flooding in the UK. Also bought a copy of Sarah Murray's "Moveable Feasts" which looks at the journeys that our food makes: useful for some resources I'm developing - also the key role of the shipping container, which I've long mentioned as being a key part of globalisation in terms of reduc...