Geography and all that Jazz

OXFAM have launched a new website called "THE CLIMATE CHALLENGE" ahead of the Copenhagen climate conference. It has a range of games and quizzes featuring celebrities (some of whom you may have heard of) and, usefully, a series of downloads which include the following things below to clutter up your blog post... Your browser does not support iframes. The game is also available in a range of languages including CHINESE .... Why might that be ?

BANGLADESH - Cyclone Sidr Resources Tony Cassidy spent the October half term of this year in Bangladesh. As part of his travels, he was asked to create a resource. The week after he arrived back in England, CYCLONE SIDR hit Bangladesh: the worst cyclone since 1991. Details of the CYCLONE can be seen on the BBC NEWS site, and there is a very detailed article from the DAILY TELEGRAPH here. Lesson Ideas Resources 1 Rationale- why study this event?Formation of the Cyclone Sidr. Cyclone protection in Bangladesh. PowerPoint with linked video and embedded animation.Student worksheet about the formation of the cyclone. 2 Causes, Impacts & Responses. PowerPoint introducing classification task.Student worksheet-classification task. 3 How quickly will Bangladesh cover? PowerPoint comparing development statistics of the U.K. and Bangladesh.Student response worksheet. 4,5,6 Levelled assessment. Students to produce a PowerPoint storyboard about the cyclone for B.B.C. ne...