Great Britons Competition

Thanks to Dan Ellison for pointing out a resource produced by MORGAN STANLEY based around the idea of Britishness.
There are resources to help explore, which would be useful for Citizenship or Pilot Geography "My Place" - some nice kinaesthetic ideas, and I always enjoy a free resource that someone else has made.

Students must choose a minimum of four elements they feel make up their Britishness. We suggest culture, religion, traditions, ethnicity, values, aspirations, ambitions, geography, languages and attitudes as options however students may create new elements if they wish. Students then form small groups around each of the elements. Each ingredient group is responsible for collecting information on that ingredient and forming it into a contribution for the charter. The class should then draw all of the information together into a Britishness Charter and give it a name. This can be a visual, digital or audio product. Potential ideas are a poster, collage, PowerPoint presentation or video.

Hurtigruten Year 10

We watched the promotional DVD today and you had to answer 2 enquiry questions:

Why do people visit Svalbard ?
Try to split the attractions into a number of groups. These could usefully include:
Physical attractions: landscape, wildlife, climate, glaciers...
Human attractions: towns, ships, 80th parallel...

Would you like to go to Svalbard (price is an issue obviously) ?
If so, what would be the highlights ? If not, why don't you want to go ?
We will get some feedback from people who have been....

New Cape Farewell Exhibition

All Year 10 pupils have the use of the Cape Farewell pack, produced by the Geographical Assocation. It describes a journey made to Svalbard by a group of people including scientists and artists.
I've just discovered via one of my other side-projects that there is currently another CAPE FAREWELL voyage underway even as I type...
The journey started in Svalbard, at Longyearbyen, and there are video diaries, and diaries and blogs from the Youth Expedition, which has just returned. The ship: the Noordelicht is currently sailing across to Greenland and to Scoresby Sound.
Check this out - a cool resource... (do you see what I did there...)

Monopoly and My Place again...

On the day that we got a special British edition Monopoly board...

This was the Here and Now UK board, and was the result of voting across the country...

Liverpool fills the Old Kent Road slot...

Dundee makes it...Here's the board for your interest - why not buy a copy ! Look at the price inflation in the properties...

Here are 1000 suggestions for a motto for Britain...

Free Sustainable Transport Resources

Transport for London is offering free cycling maps.
This follows on from last weekend's LONDON FREEWHEEL, where over 30 000 people cycled around London with their red bibs and cycle bells...

Off to London this weekend too, engineering works permitting.
Quite fancy seeing the Terracotta warriors at the British Museum, but pretty well booked up solid....

Go Lilly !

Thanks to David Rayner for pointing this out to me...

Svalbard Graph Data

Here's the data, which had disappeared off the system...

We sort of got there in the end with the new version of Excel.
Will try and knock up a version of the instructions for you. Still got to work out how to label the axes and add a title...